There was an article in Sing Out! not so long ago about the "Delta Blues Cartel", four bluesmen who made a show together in august 2002 : Henry "Mule" Townsend, born in 1909, made his first record in 1929 for Columbia. "Honeyboy" Edwards, born in 1915, got his first professionnal gig in 1928, at 13. He was playing for "wine and whisky and plenty of food"! Good old days! His first records were "only" in 1942, for Alan Lomax. There was also Robert Lockwood Jr, born in 1915, who played with Johnny Shines and... Robert Johnson, and "Homesick" James Williamson, born in 1908 (there's not much info about him).
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