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Arhoolie Records’ subsidiary label Blues Classics was the first to reintroduce the work of Memphis Minnie (1897–1973) to a new and largely white audience. A highly influential blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter, Minnie was born in Louisiana. Her family moved to Walls, Mississippi; the singer ran away to nearby Memphis in her early teens and got her start playing the guitar for tips on city streets. The tough, street-smart Minnie enjoyed a successful career performing and recording for various blues labels beginning in the 1920s and continuing well into the 1950s. "Down-Home Music: The Story of Arhoolie Records" is on display, post-security, in Terminal 2. http://bit.ly/StoryofArhoolie This image was posted on January 31, 2019.

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Down-Home Music: The Story of Arhoolie Records
This nonaviation exhibition was on display between September 2018 and June 2019 in the 2A Boomerang Gallery gallery, located in Terminal 2