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Referred to as “The Last Soul Company," Malaco Records, based in Jackson, Mississippi, has managed to outlast major record label competitors over the past 50 years. The small, mostly unheard-of independent record label has been home to multiple recording artists and songwriters and has a catalog of original recordings and music copyrights, numbering into the thousands. Christopher Booker reports.
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Jimmy “Duck” Holmes plays his guitar in front of the Blue Front Café in Bentonia, Miss.
Photo: Eric Shelton, Clarion Ledger, Illustration: Andrea Brunty, USA TODAY Network
As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound.
JACKSON, Miss. Blues is inspired by place the railroads, fields and slaughterhouses where the musicians once worked by day; by the triumphs and struggles in life; by love found and love lost.
And no place has produced more influential American bluesmen and women than the Mississippi Delta. So it s only fitting to celebrate some of the most noted musicians who came from Mississippi or whose ties to the genre were formed here.