Today is the birthday of blues legend Lemon Henry “Blind Lemon” Jefferson (1893-1929). Born blind to a sharecropping family in East Texas, Jefferson learned to play in his teens, performing at parties and picnics, and soon playing on city streets in towns like Dallas for cash, where Lead Belly was one of cohorts, and T-Bone […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:08PM on September 24, 2013