JACKSON -- Blues musician Eddie "Son" House will be honored with a Mississippi Blues Trail marker in Rochester, New York.
The dedication is Friday at the corner of Grieg and Clarissa Streets. It is Mississippi's 14th Blues Trail Marker outside the state.
House, considered one of the most influential of the early Delta bluesmen, was born near Clarksdale and became a preacher before he took up the blues.
During the 1920s and 1930s, the Paramount Records label recorded many pioneering artists fr
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