Holly Springs, MS - Aikei Pro's

Holly Springs, like many small Mississippi towns, is organized around the town square with its general store, court house, banks, cafes,  and other places of necessity readily available. Here, you don't have to stray far from the square before the veneer of order and southern gentility shows signs of cracking. Just northeast of the square you will find the monument of monomania  'Graceland Too'.

1/2 a block west of the square is Aikei Pro's, the anarchic record store owned and operated by Mr. David Caldwell.

To paraphrase Ozy, who has visited numerous times, Mr. Caldwell is an example of why you can't judge a book by its cover. Behind the piles of records mixed in with junk, stands an astute, intelligent, kindly gentleman who runs this empire exactly as he wants to.

Mr. Caldwell was active in the local civil rights movement, an advocate of black owned businesses and self-sufficiency, as well as a close personal friend of bluesmen Junior Kimbrough and R.L. Burnside.