Son House

Son House's recording career was nearly lost to silence. He served about two years at Parchman Farm in the late 1920s, apparently after killing a man in self-defense, though the details are unclear. Alan Lomax recorded him in the Delta in 1941 and 1942. In 1943 House moved to Rochester, New York, and lived in obscurity, making no music for two decades. In June 1964 three white blues enthusiasts, Dick Waterman, Nick Perls and Phil Spiro, found him and urged him to play again. The marker was removed in 2021 for updated content and reinstalled in 2022.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• C.H. Nash Museum at Chucalissa — 18 mi
  A National Historic Landmark Mississippian mound town on a bluff over the Mississippi, with a university museum, a replica house and a nature trail inside T. O. Fuller State Park.
• Graceland — 21 mi
  Elvis Presley's 1939 limestone house in Whitehaven, bought in 1957 and opened as a ticketed museum in 1982, with his grave in the Meditation Garden and a commercial visitor campus around it.
• Stax Museum of American Soul Music — 24 mi
  A rebuilt Stax studio on the site of the old Capitol Theatre, with a replica of the sloped-floor Studio A, Isaac Hayes's Cadillac and the story of an integrated soul label.
• 1866 Memphis Massacre Marker at Army Park — 24 mi
  A privately funded NAACP marker in a small downtown park, placed in 2016, that names the May 1866 attack on Black South Memphis as a massacre.

More markers nearby

• Highway 61 Blues — 1.3 mi
• Hollywood Cafe — 2.3 mi
• Abbay & Leatherman — 4.6 mi
• Memphis Minnie — 11 mi