Reggie Young

Reggie Young grew up in Osceola and became one of the most recorded guitarists in American music. He started in the Bill Black Combo, which opened for the Beatles on their 1964 U.S. tour, then joined the house band at Chips Moman's American Sound Studio in Memphis in 1967, a group linked to about 120 hit singles in four years. His guitar is on Elvis Presley's Suspicious Minds, Dusty Springfield's Dusty in Memphis and Willie Nelson's Always on My Mind, and he toured with the Highwaymen from 1990 to 1995. He died in 2019.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Hampson Archeological Museum State Park — 10 mi
  A free state museum on the town square in Wilson that holds the Nodena collection, one of the best Late Mississippian pottery collections known, from a palisaded village on the Mississippi occupied from A.D. 1400 to 1650.
• Johnny Cash Boyhood Home — 16 mi
  A restored five-room farmhouse in the Dyess Colony, the New Deal resettlement town where Johnny Cash grew up from 1935, with the colony's Administration Building as its museum.
• Herman Davis State Park — 16 mi
  A one-acre state park in Manila around the grave and memorial of Pvt. Herman Davis, a duck-hunting guide who became a scout and sharpshooter in the First World War and was fourth on Pershing's list of heroes.
• Southern Tenant Farmers Museum — 26 mi
  A museum in the 1930s dry cleaner and filling station where leaders of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union met, telling the story of cotton tenancy and the Black and white union it produced.

More markers nearby

• Mississippi County Court House — steps away
• Fighting Near Etowah — 15 mi
• Blytheville Black Commercial Historic District — 16 mi