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Celebrating Mississippi as the Birthplace of America's Music and celebrating the musicians who have made the music.

Our slogan was coined and authored by our Founder Dr. James Brewer - Mississippi Birthplace of America's Music

08/12/2025

The Birthplace of America’s Music!

11/10/2024

I am speaking for Ms Misty Blue Dorothy Moore and myself in saying we are deeply sad and grieving in the passing of our friend Marty Gamblin. Marty managed Dorothy Moore for a time and was her road manager too when she was the leader of the Poppies. Marty was a Board member of the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame of which I am the Director and he became a wonderful advisor and friend. Words cannot express Dorothy's and my sadness about the loss of Marty Gamblin.

Beloved music industry executive Marty Gamblin passed away on Wednesday (Oct. 9). He was 80 [...]

21/04/2023

30/03/2023

Leland bluesman Eddie Cusic (1926-2015) stands in front of this marker that was unveiled on March 29, 2007, in his hometown. Today Highway 61 is widely known as the “blues highway,” but early on Highway 10 was of equal importance to itinerant musicians. It crossed Greenville’s blues center and loosely followed the Southern Railway line through Leland, Dunleith, Holly Ridge, Indianola, Moorhead, Berclair, Itta Bena, Greenwood and on to points east. Highway 10’s importance declined somewhat with the completion of the considerably straighter Highway 82 in 1936. https://msbluestrail.org/blues-trail-markers/highway-10-61

09/02/2023

Country Music Hall of Fame member Charley Pride grew up on a forty-acre farm in Mississippi, fifty miles south of Memphis. His father loved country music, exposing young Charley to radio broadcasts of the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday nights. The future star showed interest in music at an early age, buying his first guitar from Sears Roebuck at age fourteen.

But professional baseball was Pride’s first career, and he left home at age sixteen to pursue it. Over time, his gifts as a musician eclipsed his athleticism, and, in 1962, Red Sovine and Red Foley heard Pride performing and encouraged him to come to Nashville.

By the late 1960s, Charley Pride had become country music’s first Black superstar. He lent his honeyed baritone to music that captivated audiences, breaking racial and cultural barriers. Pride’s hitmaking heyday lasted from 1966 through the 1980s, but his impact on country music is perpetual.

Read more:
https://countrymusichalloffame.org/artist/charley-pride/

09/12/2022

Happy 205th Birthday Mississippi on Dec 10! Steve Azar is celebrating by releasing this abridged video version of our new Official State Song of Mississippi “One Mississippi “ written & created by him. He had some wonderful contributors including the Fabulous Dorothy Moore, Eden Brent, Chapel Hart, Castro MrSipp Tmbc Coleman, Marty Stuart, Morgan Freeman & more!
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Abridged 3-minute version of "One Mississippi," the official state song of MS by Steve Azar. Featuring a whole lot of help from his friends, some of Mississi...

24/09/2021

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