Sunnyland Slim

Albert Luandrew became Sunnyland Slim after a song, "Sunnyland Train." He left a farm near Vance for Memphis in 1925, then moved to Chicago in 1942, where he helped make the city a center of postwar blues. His first record, in 1946, was as a singer with Armand "Jump" Jackson's band. In the late 1960s he played piano on Canned Heat's "Turpentine Moan," and in 1988 the National Endowment for the Arts gave him a National Heritage Fellowship. He died in Chicago in 1995, aged 88. The marker stands on Darby Avenue in Lambert.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Delta Blues Museum — 17 mi
  The state's oldest music museum, in a restored 1918 freight depot in Clarksdale, with Muddy Waters's rebuilt cabin and instruments from Delta players.
• Emmett Till Interpretive Center and the Tallahatchie County Courthouse — 17 mi
  The 1955 courthouse in Sumner where Emmett Till's killers were acquitted, restored to that year, and the interpretive center across the street that opened after the county's 2007 apology.
• Enid Lake — 22 mi
  A Corps of Engineers lake on the Yocona River, finished in 1952 after farm families were moved off the valley floor, and the home water of a world-record white crappie.
• Parchman Farm (Mississippi State Penitentiary) — 24 mi
  The state penitentiary on Sunflower County cotton land, built in 1900 as a prison plantation, where Freedom Riders were held in 1961; a working prison with no visits and a Blues Trail marker at its gate.

More markers nearby

• John Lee Hooker — 9.6 mi
• James L. Alcorn — 14 mi
• Rocket "88" — 15 mi
• Hopson Plantation Established 1852 — 15 mi