Tutwiler Tracks

Tutwiler is where the blues began its migration from oral tradition to popular art form. Here, WC Handy, known as the "Father of the Blues," first heard a sharecropper moan his 12-bar prayer while the two waited for a train in 1903. That meeting is immortalized by a lonely, faded mural that feels a thousand years old.

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