Why does the Mississippi state sign claim "birthplace of America's music"?

Jimmy Rodgers was from Meridian, Ms. area, and he was pretty much, the very first music star.

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BB King
Conway Twitty
Marty Stuart
Muddy Waters

Jazz and blues are inexorably linked. Together, they formed rock n roll. Both developed contemporaneously, one in Congo Square, the other in the delta. It wasn’t long before the two intertwined, and there’s no clear picture as to which developed first. So, both Mississippi and Louisiana have roughly equal claims to being the “birthplace of American music”.

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Suggestion: TL's Top-10 Signs from Mississippi Delta towns claiming that they are the Home of the Blues.

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Don't encourage him.

Its blues.

Blues shaped country music and all forms of metal. It was the foundation of telling a story, with an instrument speaking its translation of what the performer was speaking. Even today, some of the best guitarists still use a lot of blues scales, or scales based from blues playing.

Blues connected the guitar to the performer's soul. It's the music of pain and passion, striving to make it through hard times.

Its music that shows 1 man and 1 guitar can be powerful and speak louder than any big band or full stage.

Blues music changed the world, and still continues to inspire.

Don't forget the influence of old time music.

Perhaps Virginia should change their signs to reflect that it's the birthplace of country music.

Should have done your homework
Then maybe you could have done the Top Ten Musicians from Mississippi

Those were just an influential as the Blues. Jimmy Rodgers did blues also and was biggest blues artist of his time. But you could go further back to the old time music that originated from the british isles. Fiddlin' John Carson made some of the first recordings of traditional country music for the Okeh label.