Malaco Records
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kwashnak
N 32° 21.355 W 090° 13.275
15S E 761492 N 3583282
Blues Trail Marker located at 3023 W. Northside Drive
Waymark Code: WMA955
Location: Mississippi, United States
Date Posted: 12/06/2010
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Malaco Records, one of America's foremost labels in the field of southern soul, blues and gospel, was founded at this site in 1967. Malaco's studio was the first state-of-the-art recording facility in Mississippi. The label attained national statue with the success of Dorothy Moore's "Misty Blue" (1976), Z. Z. Hill's "Down Home Blues" (1982), and other records by the Jackson Southernaires, Denise LaSalle, Bobby Bland, Little Milton, Latimore, and Johnnie Taylor
Date Installed:: 2008/1/1
Organization that placed the object:: Mississippi Blues Comission
Related Website:: [Web Link]
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