John Lee Hooker was born in (about) 1917 in the extremely tiny, rural town of Tutwiler, Mississippi — coincidentally the very same town where W.C. Handy first heard & documented a man singing what he called “the blues” in 1903.Read more
John Lee Hooker was born in (abouts) 1917 in the extremely tiny, rural town of Tutwiler, Mississippi — coincidentally the very same town where W.C. Handy first heard & documented a man singing what he called “the blues” in 1903.Read more
In 1929, W.C. Handy & Bessie Smith made a glamorous premier of their movie “St. Louis Blues” with red carpet & limousines in Memphis, Tennessee, on Beale Street at The Daisy Theater — an establishment which stands to this day.Read more
Professor Longhair’s “Crawfish Fiesta” won a Blues Music Award (Then the W.C. Handy Awards) in 1980.Read more
W.C. Handy was the first to document “the blues”, saying he heard it on a train platform in Tutwiler, Mississippi.Read more
