Coleman was a very popular musician around Birmingham and Bessemer, Alabama. His recording career, by comparison, was perhaps a modest success. In 1950, the military veteran passed and his grave received a marker from the federal government. Some years back it became dislodged from the burial site and forgotten in an abandoned section of Lincoln Memorial Cemetery in Bessemer, Alabama. We plan to remedy the situation this summer. Click the Donate tab above to contribute to our ongoing efforts...
Abandoned Cemeteries, Serious Research, Blues Memorials since 1989
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
-
Revisiting Ralph Lembo (click title to open) was published in the ARSC Journal in December 2018. The editor of the ARSC Journal made the de... -
B.B. King at Dockery Farms in the 1970s In their “Response” (vol. 50, no. 1, Spring 2019) to T. DeWayne Moore’s article “Revisiti... -
A Biography of Charley Patton (Part 1) David Evans won a Grammy award in 2003 for “Best Album Notes” for the following essay in Revenant... -
Music to the Ears: Willie T. Narmour’s Carroll County Blues Kicked off a Music Career that is the Stuff of Legends Compiled for...
No comments:
Post a Comment