Billy Johnson

Billy Johnson is an educator, historian and cultural consultant from Leland, Mississippi. He is best known as the curator of the Highway 61 Blues Museum. Johnson's family owned a drug store next door to a cafe where blues artists often played. Johnson knew many blues legends who lived in Leland and realised that many had been honored all over the world but not at home, giving him the idea to start the Highway 61 Blues Museum. Johnson is also President of the Mississippi Wildlife Heritage Museum and the Leland Blues Project Director. He has worked with the Mississippi Blues Commission who have put up nearly 200 Blues Trail markers around the area to create an outdoor 'virtual museum' accessed through an app. He has worked with local historians and photographers to put together exhibitions around Blues Music.