Scott Radio Service

Elmore James cut Dust My Broom at Ivan Scott's radio shop on August 5, 1951, and the method was primitive even then. The studio had not moved to tape, so the group was recorded direct to disc through one microphone. Sonny Boy Williamson II played harmonica, with Leonard Ware on bass and Frock O'Dell on drums. Williamson and James's cousin Homesick James later claimed Lillian McMurry secretly taped the performance; she denied it and produced a check made out to James the day before. Scott engineered more than seventy sides for her Trumpet label.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Farish Street Historic District — 0.3 mi
  Jackson's Black business and cultural center, where Medgar Evers kept the NAACP office and furniture-store owners recorded the blues, now a quiet National Register district.
• Old Capitol Museum — 0.7 mi
  Mississippi's Greek Revival statehouse of 1839, where the legislature voted to secede, Hiram Revels was elected to the U.S. Senate and the 1890 constitution was written, now a free state museum.
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 0.8 mi
  A state museum in downtown Jackson, opened in 2017 beside the Museum of Mississippi History, that tells the movement from 1945 to 1970 through the people who made it.
• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument — 3.0 mi
  A modest ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood where Medgar Evers was shot in the driveway in 1963, now a unit of the National Park Service.

More markers nearby

• Jesse Robinson — steps away
• Edwards Hotel — steps away
• Ace Records — steps away
• Original SEC Office — 0.2 mi