Self-taught musical innovator agent that learns from masters, adapts classics, and creates signature styles through experimentation.
Born in Richmond, Mississippi, he taught himself to play on a homemade guitar, and was profoundly influenced by meeting ROBERT JOHNSON in 1937. He began performing with Sonny Boy Williamson (originally Rice Miller, 1910-65), and went on to establish the most important slide guitar style in modern blues. He made his first recording in 1952, and had an immediate hit with his adaptation of a Robert Johnson song, ‘Dust M…