Tagged: Byron Stripling

02/18/2013

Musicians @byronstripling channel Mardi Gras #MARDIGRAS with New Orleans #NOLA jazz tunes http://nola.tw/Jz

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1906 - (Uncle) Johnny Williams was born on this day. A blues guitarist and singer and a native of Shreveport, Louisiana. He was raised in Houston, Texas, and moved to Belzoni, Mississippi, where he learned to play guitar. He moved to Chicago and began working with Theodore "Hound Dog" Taylor in the 1940's. He also worked with his cousin the mandolin player Johnny Young or with harmonica player Snooky Pryor and guitarists Floyd Jones and Moody Jones and with Little Walter. He stopped playing blues in 1959 after a religious conversion, and joined the Baptist church, becoming an ordained minister in the early 1960s. He passed away in Chicago on March 6, 2006, at the age of 99.

fact

1906 - (Uncle) Johnny Williams was born on this day. A blues guitarist and singer and a native of Shreveport, Louisiana. He was raised in Houston, Texas, and moved to Belzoni, Mississippi, where he learned to play guitar. He moved to Chicago and began working with Theodore "Hound Dog" Taylor in the 1940's. He also worked with his cousin the mandolin player Johnny Young or with harmonica player Snooky Pryor and guitarists Floyd Jones and Moody Jones and with Little Walter. He stopped playing blues in 1959 after a religious conversion, and joined the Baptist church, becoming an ordained minister in the early 1960s. He passed away in Chicago on March 6, 2006, at the age of 99.

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