Queen of Hearts
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N 32° 19.428 W 090° 12.205
15S E 763264 N 3579764
A Blues Trail marker located along Martin Luther King, Jr Drive in Jackson, MS
Waymark Code: WM87E0
Location: Mississippi, United States
Date Posted: 02/14/2010
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The marker reads:
The Queen of Hearts, a primary venue for down-home blues in Jackson, opened at this location in the 1970s. During the following decades, owner-operator Chellie B. Lewis presented the blues bands of King Edward, Sam Myers, Big Bad Smitty, and many others. The house behind the club at 905 Ann Banks Street was owned and occupied in the 1960s by blues singer-guitarist Johnnie Temple, who had been a popular recording artist in Chicago in the 1930s and ‘40s.
Date Installed:: 2008/1/1
Organization that placed the object:: Mississippi Blues Commission
Related Website:: [Web Link]
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