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22-563: Sumlin was born in Greenwood, Mississippi , and raised in Hughes, Arkansas . He got his first guitar when he was eight years old. As a boy, he met Howlin' Wolf by sneaking into a performance. Wolf relocated from Memphis to Chicago in 1953, but his longtime guitarist Willie Johnson chose not to join him. In Chicago, Wolf hired the guitarist Jody Williams , but in 1954 he invited Sumlin to move to Chicago to play second guitar in his band. Williams left

44-726: A charter member of the Greenwood Garden Club, planted the 1,000 oak trees that line Grand Boulevard. In 1950, Gwin received a citation from the National Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution in recognition of her work in the conservation of trees. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 9.5 square miles (25 km ), of which 9.2 square miles (24 km )

66-445: A male householder with no wife present, and 36.6% were non-families. 32.5% of all households were made up of individuals living alone and 10.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.48 and the average family size was 3.16. Radio station WGRM on Howard Street was the location of B.B. King 's first live broadcast in 1940. On Sunday nights, King performed live gospel music as part of

88-552: A quartet. In memory of this event, the Mississippi Blues Trail has placed its third historic marker in this town at the site of the former radio station. Another Mississippi Blues Trail marker is placed near the grave of the blues singer Robert Johnson . A third Blues Trail marker notes the Elks Lodge in the city, which was an important black organization. A fourth Blues Trail marker was dedicated to Hubert Sumlin that

110-919: A result of deficient leadership. Pillow Academy , a private school, is located in unincorporated Leflore County , near Greenwood. Delta Streets Academy , a newly founded private school located in downtown Greenwood, has an enrollment of nearly 50 students. It has continued to increase enrollment. St. Francis Catholic School, run by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jackson , provides classes from kindergarten through sixth grade. In addition, North New Summit School provides educational services for special-needs and at-risk children from kindergarten through high school. Nightmare in Badham County (1976), Ode to Billy Joe (1976), and The Help (2011) were filmed in Greenwood. The 1991 movie Mississippi Masala

132-558: A strong international demand for cotton , was based on its strategic location in the heart of the Delta: on the easternmost point of the alluvial plain , and astride the Tallahatchie and Yazoo rivers. The city served as a shipping point for cotton to major markets in New Orleans , Vicksburg, Mississippi , Memphis, Tennessee , and St. Louis, Missouri . The construction of railroads through

154-478: Is a city in and the county seat of Leflore County , Mississippi , United States, located at the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta region, approximately 96 miles north of the state capital, Jackson , and 130 miles south of the riverport of Memphis, Tennessee . It was a center of cotton planter culture in the 19th century. The population was 15,205 at the 2010 census . It is the principal city of

176-400: Is land and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km ) is water. As of the 2020 United States Census , there were 14,490 people, 4,924 households, and 2,793 families residing in the city. At the 2010 census, there were 15,205 people and 6,022 households in the city. The population density was 1,237.7 inhabitants per square mile (477.9/km ). There were 6,759 housing units. The racial makeup of the city

198-552: Is located along the Yazoo River on River Road. Greenwood is governed under a city council form of government, composed of council members elected from seven single-member wards and headed by a mayor, who is elected at-large . Greenwood Leflore Consolidated School District (GLCSD) operates public schools. Previously the majority of the city was in Greenwood Public School District while small portions were in

220-579: The Leflore County School District . These two districts consolidated into GLCSD on July 1, 2019. Greenwood High School is the only public high school in Greenwood. As of 2014, the student body is 99% black. Amanda Elzy High School , outside of the Greenwood city limits, was formerly of the Leflore County district. It was recently taken over by the State of Mississippi for poor performance as

242-468: The "rocking chair album", with reference to its cover illustration), which was named the third greatest guitar album of all time by Mojo magazine in 2004. Upon Wolf's death in 1976, Sumlin continued playing with several other members of Wolf's band, as the Wolf Gang, until about 1980. He also recorded under his own name, beginning with a session from a tour of Europe with Wolf in 1964. His last solo album

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264-513: The 1940s. Cotton production suffered in Mississippi during the infestation of the boll weevil in the early 20th century; however, for many years the bridge over the Yazoo displayed the sign "World's Largest Inland Long Staple Cotton Market". Cotton cultivation and processing became largely mechanized in the first half of the 20th century, displacing thousands of sharecroppers and tenant farmers. Since

286-638: The Greenwood Micropolitan Statistical Area . Greenwood developed at the confluence of the Tallahatchie and the Yalobusha rivers, which form the Yazoo River . The first Euro-American settlement on the banks of the Yazoo River was a trading post founded in 1834 by Colonel Dr. John J. Dilliard and known as Dilliard's Landing. The settlement had competition from Greenwood Leflore's rival landing called Point Leflore, located three miles up

308-470: The Yazoo River. The rivalry ended when Captain James Dilliard donated parcels in exchange for a commitment from the townsmen to maintain an all-weather turnpike to the hill section to the east, along with a stagecoach road to the more established settlements to the northwest. The settlement was incorporated as "Greenwood" in 1844, named after Chief Greenwood LeFlore. The success of the city, founded during

330-578: The album Tribute to Howlin' Wolf , with Henry Gray, Calvin Jones, Sam Lay, and Colin Linden; in 2000 for Legends , with Pinetop Perkins ; in 2006, for his solo project About Them Shoes (which features performances by Keith Richards , Eric Clapton , Levon Helm , David Johansen and James Cotton ) and in 2010 for his contribution to Kenny Wayne Shepherd 's Live! in Chicago . He won multiple Blues Music Awards . He

352-405: The area in the 1880s revitalized the city; two rail lines ran to downtown Greenwood close to the Yazoo River, and shortened transportation to markets. Greenwood again emerged as a prime shipping point for cotton. Downtown's Front Street, bordering the Yazoo, was dominated by cotton factors and related businesses, earning that section the name "Cotton Row". The city continued to prosper well into

374-464: The band in 1955, leaving Sumlin as the primary guitarist, a position he held almost continuously (except for a brief spell playing with Muddy Waters around 1956) for the remainder of Wolf's career. According to Sumlin, Howlin' Wolf sent him to a classical guitar instructor at the Chicago Conservatory of Music to learn keyboards and scales . Sumlin played on the album Howlin' Wolf (called

396-502: The late 20th century, some Mississippi farmers have begun to replace cotton with corn and soybeans as commodity crops; with the textile manufacturing industry having shifted overseas, farmers can gain stronger prices for the newer crops, used mostly as animal feed. Greenwood's Grand Boulevard was once named one of America's 10 most beautiful streets by the U.S. Chambers of Commerce and the Garden Clubs of America. Sally Humphreys Gwin,

418-495: Was About Them Shoes , released in 2004 by Tone-Cool Records. He underwent lung removal surgery the same year, but he continued performing until just before his death. His final recording, just days before his death, was tracks for an album by Stephen Dale Petit , Cracking The Code (333 Records). Sumlin was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 2008. He was nominated for four Grammy Awards : in 1999 for

440-420: Was 30.4% White , 67.0% Black , 0.1% Native American , 0.9% Asian , <0.1% Pacific Islander , <0.1% from other races, and 0.5% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.1% of the population. Among the 6,022 households, 28.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 29.8% were married couples living together, 29.0% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.6% had

462-497: Was a judge for the fifth annual Independent Music Awards, given to support the careers of independent artists. Sumlin lived in Totowa, New Jersey for 10 years before his death. He died of heart failure on December 4, 2011, at the age of 80, in a hospital in Wayne, New Jersey . Mick Jagger and Keith Richards paid Sumlin's funeral expenses. Greenwood, Mississippi Greenwood

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484-513: Was also set and filmed in Greenwood. Greenwood is served by two major rail lines. Amtrak , the national passenger rail system, provides service to Greenwood, connecting New Orleans to Chicago from Greenwood station . Greenwood is served by Greenwood–Leflore Airport (GWO) to the east, and is located midway between Jackson, Mississippi , and Memphis, Tennessee . It is about halfway between Dallas, Texas , and Atlanta, Georgia . Yazoo River Too Many Requests If you report this error to

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