The Killer Blues Headstone Project is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to providing headstones for blues musicians that are lying in unmarked graves.
Remembering bluesman Charley Patton - who passed away on this day in 1934 - Mr. Patton is laid to rest at New Jerusalem Cemetery in #Mississippi! #blues#music
Remembering, the one and only, Count Basie - who passed away on this day in 1984 - Mr. Basie is laid to rest at Pinelawn Memorial Park in New York! #NY#jazz#blues#music
Remembering bluesman and Killer Blues headstone recipient Walter Vinson - who passed away on this day in 1975 - Mr. Vinson is laid to rest at Holy Sepulcher Cemetery in #Chicago, #Illinois! #blues#music#bluesmusic#nonproit
Remembering bluesman and Killer Blues headstone recipient Alger Alexander - who passed away on this day in 1954 - Mr. Alexander is laid to rest at the Longstreet Cemetery in #Texas! #blues#music#nonprofit
Remembering bluesman and Killer Blues headstone recipient Floyd Council - who passed away on this day in 1976 - Mr. Council is laid to rest at White Oak AME Zion Cemetery in North Carolina! #nc#blues#music#bluesmusic#nonprofit
Remembering bluesman Sylvester Weaver - who passed away on this day in 1960 - Mr. Weaver is laid to rest at the #Louisville Cemetery in #Kentucky! #ky#blues#music
Remembering bluesman Armond “Jump” Jackson - who passed away on this day in 1985 - Mr. Jackson is laid to rest at Lincoln Cemetery in #Chicago! #blues#music
Remembering bluesman “Kansas” Joe McCoy - who passed away on this day in 1950 - Mr. McCoy is laid to rest at Restvale Cemetery in #Chicago! #blues#music#nonprofit
Remembering bluesman and Killer Blues headstone recipient Big Leon Brooks - Mr. Brooks is laid to rest at Mt. Glenwood Cemetery in #Chicago! #blues#music#nonprofit
Remembering bluesman Charles Brown - who passed away on this day in 1999 - Mr. Brown is laid to rest at Inglewood Park Cemetery near Los Angeles! #LA#blues#music
Remembering bluesman David “Junior” Kimbrough - who passed away twenty five years ago today - he is laid to rest at the Kimbrough Cemetery near Holly Springs, #Mississippi! #blues#music
Remembering the amazing Precious Bryant - who passed away on this day in 2013 - the “Dark Angel” is laid to rest at Salem Primitive Baptist in #Georgia! #blues#music
Remembering the one and only Howlin’ Wolf - who passed away on this day in 1976 - the Wolf is laid to rest at the Oakridge-Glen Oak Cemetery in #Chicago! #blues#music