61 Highway - Vicksburg, MS
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member kwashnak
N 32° 21.186 W 090° 52.896
15S E 699343 N 3581547
1000 South Washington Street, Vicksburg, MS Part of the Mississippi Blues Trail
Waymark Code: WMGQM7
Location: Mississippi, United States
Date Posted: 04/01/2013
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member jdwms_1950
Views: 9

61 Highway
The rise of the automobile and the development of a national highway system in the 1920s and '30s coincided with the initial boom of blues, jazz, and spiritual recordings by African American artists. Songs in the African American tradition about riverboats, trains, and railroads were soon complemented by records abou thighways, cars, and buses. Th emost prominent highway in blues lore was U.S. Highway 61 - or "61 Highway," as it was often called in decades past.
Date Installed:: 2010/1/1

Organization that placed the object:: Mississippi Blues Commission

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