Tutwiler, Mississippi

Tallahatchie County

28-75040

Tutwiler is a town in Tallahatchie County in the U.S. state of Mississippi with 1364 inhabitants ( 2000 census ). Tutwiler is located in the center of the region, which is known as the Mississippi Delta.

Blues fans Tutwiler is known as the place where the blues began. Here, WC Handy first heard play a Blues on the slide guitar by its own account in 1903 a man, which he sang Goin 'where the southern cross the dog - the strangest music he had ever heard, so mobile. The rest is blues history.

In the near Tutwiler is the grave of blues legend Sonny Boy Williamson II