NASHVILLE, Tenn. - You can now add royalty to the growing list of people trying to preserve the history of Jefferson Street before developers get their hands on it.
Marion James, officially dubbed Nashville's Queen of the Blues, has been wanting to make sure one of the greatest guitar players of all time and the last historic music venue on Jefferson Street get their rightful recognition.
Sunday was the annual Musician's Reunion in Printer's Alley.
The benefit concert for the Marian James Musicians Aid Society has been going on for 32 years.
This year though, James was raising money to preserve music history she was a part of and she said has been rapidly disappearing.
James has been trying to get a statue of Jimi Hendrix built outside the Elks Lodge on Jefferson Street.
Hendrix got his start in James' band in a time when music clubs lined the street in North Nashville.
"It hurts me real bad to just to even think about it being destroyed," James said.
She said much of the history has already been lost as buildings have been abandoned and torn down along Jefferson Street.
James said with developers turning their eyes towards North Nashville she said some sort of marker of the area's history needs to be built before it's too late.
"Jefferson Street is something like a Music Row," James said.
James has set up an account at Citizen Bank if you'd like to donate to help build the statue and monument.
The account is called the Jimi Hendrix Project.
