J.B. Lenoir

Birth Name:

J.B. Lenoir

Birth Date:

March 5, 1929

Birth Place:

Monticello, Mississippi

Death Date:

April 29, 1967

Place of Death:

Urbana, Illinois

Age:

Cause of Death:

Internal bleeding (untreated) after an auto accident

Cemetery Name:

Salem Missionary Baptist Church

Claim to Fame:

Music

Monticello area native J. B. Lenoir was a distinctive blues artist, in both his high-pitched singing style and the candid political critiques in many of his song lyrics and is best remembered for his 1955 hit “Mama, Talk to Your Daughter". He died on April 29, 1967, in Urbana, Illinois, at the age 38, of internal bleeding related to injuries he had suffered in a car crash three weeks earlier. The 2003 documentary film The Soul of a Man, directed by Wim Wenders as the second installment of Martin Scorsese's series The Blues, explored Lenoir's career, together with those of Skip James and Blind Willie Johnson. In 2011, Lenoir was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.

Cemetery Information:

Final Resting Place:

Salem Missionary Baptist Church

Intersection of Price and Rials Road

Monticello, Mississippi, 39654

USA

North America

Grave Location Description

The church is located 1.7 miles down Payne Road from Route 27. Payne Road is 14.7 miles south from the intersection of 84 and 27 outside Monticello. J.B. is in the back of the small cemetery