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Radioactive Blues in Mississippi and Beyond

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Rabbit Foot Company Port Gibson Miss
A historic marker has been placed in Port Gibson, Mississippi, by the Mississippi Blues Commission, as part of the Mississippi Blues Trail. This commemorates the enormous contribution the Rabbit’s Foot Company made to the development of the blues in Mississippi.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rabbit%27s_Foot_Company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Blues_Trail
Grand Gulf Nuclear Reactor near Port Gibson, Mississippi
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Why is Mississippi the “Cradle of the Blues?” I wish I knew. I read [that] most of the blues people, like myself, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, and many, many blues singers, all were born within a hundred miles of each other.” B.B. King oral History: http://www.pbs.org/americanrootsmusic/pbs_arm_oralh_bbking.html

When a man was recently found hung near Port Gibson Mississippi, it made news around the world. When the late, great, King of Blues, B. B. King passed away, it made international news, as well it should. (The King of Rock and Roll, Elvis, was also a Mississippian, 10…

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