Editing Friars Point, Mississippi (section)

===Delta blues===
[[Muddy Waters]] said the only time he saw [[Robert Johnson]] play was on the front porch of Hirsberg's Drugstore in Friars Point. A crowd had gathered around Johnson, who was playing ferociously. "I stopped and peeked over," he said, "and then I left because he was a dangerous man."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cobb |first=James Charles |url=https://archive.org/details/redefiningsouthe0975cobb |title=Redefining Southern Culture: Mind and Identity in the Modern South |publisher=University of Georgia |year=1999 |url-access=registration}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Delta Sites |url=http://www.cr.nps.gov/delta/blues/sites/delta_sites.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021162529/http://www.cr.nps.gov/delta/blues/sites/delta_sites.htm |archive-date=October 21, 2013 |access-date=December 1, 2013 |publisher=National Park Service}}</ref> In a 1937 recording, Johnson sang, "Just come on back to Friars Point, mama, and barrelhouse all night long."<ref name="MBC" /> In Johnson's "Traveling Riverside Blues" he sang, "I got womens in Vicksburg, clean on into Tennessee, but my Friar's Point rider, now, hops all over me."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Friar's Point, Mississippi |url=http://www.mrjumbo.com/contents/delta99/3delta/1friars/friars.html |access-date=December 1, 2013 |publisher=Mr. Jimbo}}</ref>

The Mississippi Blues Commission placed a [[Mississippi Blues Trail|Blues Trail]] marker in Friars Point in recognition of musician [[Robert Nighthawk]], who at various times called Friars Point home. In 1940, Nighthawk recorded "Friars Point Blues", singing of "going back to Friars Point, down in sweet old Dixie Land."<ref name="MBC">{{Cite web |title=Robert Nighthawk - Friars Point |url=http://msbluestrail.org/blues-trail-markers/robert-nighthawk |access-date=December 1, 2013 |publisher=Mississippi Blues Commission}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Robert Nighthawk to Get Blues Trail Marker |url=http://www.stlblues.net/robertnighthawk_marker.htm |access-date=December 1, 2013 |publisher=STLBlues}}</ref> When dedicating the marker, Governor [[Haley Barbour]] proclaimed:<blockquote>This talented Mississippian made a huge contribution to development of that unique genre of music, the Mississippi [[blues]]. I am pleased Nighthawk's imprint on the blues scene, which is still heard through the tunes of modern-day blues artists, will be recognized with his inclusion on the Mississippi Blues Trail.{{citation needed|date=December 2013}}</blockquote>

"Friar's Point" is a song on blues musician [[Susan Tedeschi]]'s 1998 album ''[[Just Won't Burn]]''.