Mosley and Johnson

Sam Mosley and Bob Johnson formed their blues band in New Albany in 1967 and played together until Johnson died in 1998. Mosley had come home from Vietnam that year and teamed up with Johnson, an old schoolmate. They found a steadier living writing songs than performing, and Malaco artists including Johnnie Taylor, Bobby Bland and Little Milton recorded their work. Their own first album, Mississippi Mud, came out in 1971 on their Sabo label under the name Sam and Bob and the Soulmen.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site — 16 mi
  The crossroads where Nathan Bedford Forrest routed a larger Union force in June 1864, and where Black regiments, many raised at Corinth, held the bridge that let most of the army escape.
• Natchez Trace Parkway Visitor Center — 20 mi
  The parkway's headquarters and official visitor center near Tupelo, with a film, a small museum of the Old Trace and the surviving New Deal houses of the Tupelo Homesteads.
• Chickasaw Village Site — 21 mi
  A Chickasaw village on a remnant of the Black Belt Prairie beside the Natchez Trace Parkway, with house outlines marked on the ground and signs that speak in Chickasaw voices.
• Tupelo National Battlefield — 23 mi
  A one-acre park on Main Street marking the July 1864 battle of Tupelo, a Union victory that kept Nathan Bedford Forrest away from Sherman's supply line, with Black soldiers among the defenders.

More markers nearby

• William Faulkner — steps away
• Union County, Mississippi — steps away
• Roma Wilson & Leon Pinson — 0.6 mi
• Myrtle — 7.6 mi