Country guitar great Chet Atkins called him “one of my first finger-picking influences.” Even post-punk rockers paid tribute to him, with Nick Cave writing the eerie “Blind Lemon Jefferson ...

Soon many other guitarists also adopted the bebop style. Later, all three of these guitarists would perform and record live at the Concord Jazz Festival and elsewhere as the Great Guitars unit, making ...

filling in with the few details known about Jefferson’s life. As legend has it, Blind Lemon played his guitar on the corner of Elm Street and Central Avenue in Dallas before he was discovered by ...

Texas street singer Blind Lemon Jefferson, who died in 1929 ... aims to show how Jefferson's intricate lyrics and fierce guitar playing had an effect on gospel, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul ...

Blind Lemon Jefferson's grave in a small cemetery off ... At a young age he began playing guitar and singing for coins on street corners and juke joints around Mexia. By the time he was 19 years ...

Lemon Henry "Blind Lemon" Jefferson was the first Black blues artist ... is a Texas historic landmark where visitors leave stones and coins and guitar picks. The engraved epitaph is a line from ...

Tony Award winner Lillias White will join the cast of the York Theatre Company's off-Broadway premiere of Blind Lemon Blues. Created by Alan Govenar and Akin Babatunde, the show features more than ...

Blind Lemon Jefferson, Booker T and the MGs ... James & Ben Hernandez is a roots blues duo featuring James on vocals, guitar, tincane, etc., and Hernandez on vocals, harp, jug, washboard, and ...

There are 65 songs listed in the credits of Blind Lemon Blues ... where he would sing and play guitar for donations on a street corner, Jefferson was invited to record for Paramount records ...