Tom "Pops" Carter - Blues Musician - Denton, TX
N 33° 13.150 W 097° 07.725
14S E 674383 N 3677144
A stained-glass memorial to Pops Carter, blues legend, in Quakertown Park - Denton, TX. The artist is Christie A. Wood and the memorial was dedicated on September 20, 2014. #4290
Waymark Code: WMRXKF
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 08/18/2016
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You will see a beautiful stained-glass piece depicting blues legend Tom "Pops" Carter, born in 1919, died in 2012.
Born June 6th along the Louisiana banks of the Red River in a Bossier Parish cotton town, a precocious 10-year-old Carter began sneaking out to hear the tent pole blues shows that would drift through Shreveport. When he and his friends were about to be tossed from one show by gruff tour roustabouts, a bluesman, whose name has been lost to time, intervened. “You let them kids stay,” Pops remembered the old musician growl that hot night, “They’s gonna sit here by the stage and get schooled in th’ blues.” Young Tom Carter was lucky enough to be exposed to the sounds of traveling legends like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Lead Belly and T-Bone Walker.
His first band, The House Rockers, began by playing in the streets outside the hot clubs but Carter was soon jamming onstage with the most prominent bluesmen of the era.
He formed Pops Carter and the Funkmonsters in 1990 when he was 70 years old.
Location: park
Website with more information on either the memorial or the person(s) it is dedicated to: Not listed
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