In 1940 singer-guitarist Booker “Bukka” White, who had lived in Aberdeen during the 1920s and 1930s, recorded the blues classic “Aberdeen Mississippi Blues,” and twenty-three years later its title helped blues researchers find him and led to the revival of his recording career. White, born near Houston, spent many of his early years performing and farming in Chickasaw, Monroe, and Tallahatchie counties and moving in and out of the Aberdeen area. After shooting a man at a nearby juke joint, he was sentenced to Parchman Penitentiary in 1937, where John Lomax recorded him in 1939 for the Library of Congress, and some of his most memorable songs grew out of his trial and incarceration. During the folk-blues boom of the 1960s, guitarist and researcher John Fahey sent a postcard addressed to White in Aberdeen, Mississippi, and it was forwarded to him in Memphis, after which he soon recorded again and was hailed as one of the finest revived older bluesmen. Social Security records also tied Aberdeen to Chester Arthur “Howlin’ Wolf” Burnett and Albert King. Burnett often said he was born in Aberdeen in 1910, though later biographers cited White Station in Clay County, and he was probably born between Aberdeen and West Point before later becoming famous in West Memphis and Chicago. King, later celebrated as the “King of the Blues Guitar,” gave his birthplace on his 1942 Social Security application as “Aboden, Miss.,” likely reflecting his pronunciation of Aberdeen, though he was raised mainly in Arkansas and later lived in Lovejoy, Illinois.