Today is the birthday of Delta blues guitarist and singer Booker T. Washington White, a.k.a Bukka White (1909-1977). A native of Aberdeen, Mississippi, he was the first cousin of B.B. King’s mother. One of the seminal open-tuning blues slide players, he cut his first record for Victor in 1930, and was still recording through the [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:24AM on November 12, 2012