Willie King (1943-2009) pictured on his property in Old Memphis, Pickens County. King was a noted blues musician and a devoted community activist who founded the nonprofit Rural Members Association to promote traditional rural life skills and organized the Freedom Creek Festival to celebrate the blues.
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