North Florida’s urban clubs and rural roadhouses, including clubs that have operated at Bradfordville, played an important role in the history of the Gulf Coast chitlin circuit for touring African American blues, jazz, and R&B musicians. Mississippi-born artists including B. B. King, Bo Diddley, and John Lee Hooker performed and recorded in Florida, while some Floridians, including Benny Latimore, recorded at studios in Mississippi. Florida long provided work for traveling musicians through its entertainment centers, and seasonal jobs in agriculture and other fields also drew itinerant bluesmen from Mississippi and other states. One of the most important early carriers of blues was the Rabbit Foot Minstrels touring revue, founded in 1900 by African American guitarist and theater owner Pat Chappelle of Jacksonville and later based in Port Gibson, Mississippi. Early vaudevillian blues performers appeared at theaters in Pensacola, Tampa, and Jacksonville, and in the 1930s Chicago bandleader and newspaper columnist Walter Barnes, a Mississippi native who used Florida as his wintertime base, helped develop the touring circuit for African American bands in the segregation era. During and after World War II, many nightclubs and dance halls emerged on the chitlin circuit to provide entertainment for African Americans, including Pensacola’s Savoy Ballroom, Gainesville’s Cotton Club, Jacksonville’s Two Spot, Tampa’s Apollo Ballroom, Orlando’s South Street Casino, Miami’s Harlem Square, and St. Petersburg’s Manhattan Casino. Tallahassee’s top African American club was the Red Bird Cafe, and others included the Cafe Deluxe, Green Lantern, Royal Palace, Savoy, and Two Spot. Local musicians included Lawyer Smith, Ray Charles, and Nat and Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, who became celebrated jazz performers. In 1964 Allen Henry, Jr., his wife Marion, and his sister Inez Henry Haynes opened the C. C. Club on property the Henry family had owned since slavery time, continuing a long family history of hosting baseball and musical and social events there. Remaining under Henry family ownership, the club later brought in renowned blues artists including Little Milton, Jimmy Rogers, and Bobby Rush under the management of Dave Claytor and Elizabeth Clark as Dave's C. C. Club and later as the Bradfordville Blues Club under Gary and Kim Anton. Bob Greenlee’s Kingsnake label in Sanford and Henry Stone’s labels in Miami and Hialeah recorded a number of Mississippi bluesmen. John Lee Hooker recorded for Stone, as did his cousin Earl Hooker, who was once based in the Sarasota area with other Mississippi musicians including Ike Turner, Pinetop Perkins, Johnny O’Neal, and Little Sammy Davis. Little Milton, a frequent visitor to Florida, was also once signed to Stone’s Glades label. Floridians who recorded in Mississippi included Pensacola bandleader Wally Mercer, Homestead native Tommy Tate, and Miami resident Benny Latimore. This interchange was also saluted in songs such as “Mississippi Mud” by Ray Charles and “Deep Down in Florida” by Muddy “Mississippi” Waters.