Mississippi Business Journal » Mississippi Blues Trail http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 24 May 2013 20:36:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 ‘Gatemouth’ Moore honored with Blues Trail marker http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/11/08/gatemouth-moore-honored-with-blues-trail-marker/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gatemouth-moore-honored-with-blues-trail-marker http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/11/08/gatemouth-moore-honored-with-blues-trail-marker/#comments Mon, 08 Nov 2010 21:59:58 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=33024 YAZOO CITY — Bishop Arnold Dwight “Gatemouth” Moore, a former national blues star who left the nightclub stage for the pulpit, is being honored with a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail. The marker was unveiled Monday in Yazoo City. Moore, a blues singers of the 1940s, experienced a dramatic conversion when he went onstage [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/11/08/gatemouth-moore-honored-with-blues-trail-marker/feed/ 0 Blues Trail marker to honor singer Otis Clay http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/10/22/blues-trail-marker-to-honor-singer-otis-clay/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=blues-trail-marker-to-honor-singer-otis-clay http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/10/22/blues-trail-marker-to-honor-singer-otis-clay/#comments Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:04:02 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=32269 JACKSON — A Mississippi Blues Trail marker is going up in Waxhaw in honor of native son, soul and gospel singer Otis Clay. The ceremony will be held Friday, and Clay will give a performance after the dedication. Clay and his band will travel from Chicago for the event in a park just east of [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/10/22/blues-trail-marker-to-honor-singer-otis-clay/feed/ 0 There was some good news http://msbusiness.com/blog/2009/12/21/there-was-some-good-news/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=there-was-some-good-news http://msbusiness.com/blog/2009/12/21/there-was-some-good-news/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:01:03 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=16597 By Stephen McDill and Amy McCullough ONE: ‘Tutwiler: Mississippi’s boomtown?’ Oct. 21, 2009 Despite the economic downturn, Tutwiler’s sales tax revenues doubled, thanks to a new Double Quick that replaced the town’s Shell station. The Delta town with a population of 1,364, according to the 2000 census, is one of a handful of Mississippi communities [...]

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