The first photo of Elvis Presley was taken while visiting his father in Mississippi’s notorious Parchman Farm prison — the same farm which housed blues musicians including Bukka White, T Model Ford & Son House.

Despite Buddy Bolden being a brilliant founder of Jazz music, he is a virtual ghost — no recordings exist, only one photo of him survived, and after spending much of his life in an insane asylum, he was buried in an unmarked grave.

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