Blues legend John Lee Hooker was honored with a Mississippi Blues Trail marker in Vance, Miss., on Wednesday, February 16. Hooker, whose birth date is most commonly cited as August 22, 1917, lived on farms in the Vance and Lambert areas as a child and claimed that he was born between Vance and Clarksdale. This is the 122ndmarker dedicated on the trail since its inception in December 2006.

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