![]() ![]() The Mississippi Coast, long a destination for pleasure seekers, tourists, and gamblers, as well as maritime workers and armed services personnel, developed a flourishing nightlife during the segregation era. ![]() This is an expanded version of the text that appears on the Mississippi Blues Trail marker. The Mississippi-Alabama Gulf Coast scene is of special interest to me since I lived most of my pre-college years in Biloxi and Mobile and often visited relatives in Hattiesburg and Gulfport, unaware of the music that lay just “across the tracks.” There is much more history to investigate, but, for now, better late than never, here is a little bit of the Biloxi Blues story. Blues fans are familiar with the blues lore of Clarksdale, Indianola, Greenville, Greenwood, Jackson, and other towns in the Delta and central Mississippi, but blues scenes usually developed wherever there was African American community, and there have been more of those in Mississippi than anywhere else. Researching the history of blues, R&B, and jazz in towns like Biloxi has been the most eye-opening experience I’ve had while working with the Mississippi Blues Trail. The city of Biloxi joins the Mississippi Blues Trail on May 27, 2010, with the dedication of a “Biloxi Blues” marker on Main Street.
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