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Lyon,MS - Grave of Henry Son Sims
Henry
"Son" Sims (August
22, 1890 – December 23, 1958) was
an American Delta
blues fiddler
and songwriter. He is best known as an accompanist for Charley
Patton and
the young Muddy
Waters.
Sims
was born in Anguilla,
Mississippi, the
only son of five children. He learned to play the fiddle from
his grandfather. Sims saw active service in France during World
War I,
whilst serving in the US
Army.
Sims
went on to be the leader of the Mississippi Corn Shuckers, a
rural string ensemble,
and played with them for a number of years. He joined his childhood
friend Charley Patton in a recording session for Paramount
Records in Grafton,
Wisconsin,
in June 1929. Sims accompanied Patton on fiddle on thirteen
tracks, including "Elder Greene Blues", "Going to
Move to Alabama" and "Devil Sent the Rain Blues"; and
recorded four of his own songs, including "Tell Me Man Blues",
his best-known composition, and "Farrell Blues".He played
alongside Patton at times until the Patton's death in 1934, when
Sims returned to working on a plantation. By
then he could also play the mandolin, guitar and piano.
On
August 28, 1941, Sims accompanied Muddy Waters in a recording
session under the direction of Alan
Lomax,
as part of his recordings for the Library
of Congress. In
the 1940s, Sims also accompanied Robert
Nighthawk on
several occasions. He continued a solo career into the 1950s.
Sims
died following renal surgery in December 1958 in Memphis,
Tennessee,
at the age of 68. He was buried in an unmarked grave in Bell
Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, in Clarksdale, Coahoma
County,
Mississippi. (source:Wikipedia)
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Clarksdale, Hopson Plantation
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Blues Town Music
McLaurin Memorial Garden - Clarksdale,MS
Musician. Born Joseph William Perkins, he was a piano player known as Pinetop Perkins, whom specializing in some of the most influential blues and rock and roll. He began his career as a guitarist and after injuring his hand switched to piano. In the early 1950s, he joined Earl Hooker, toured and recorded "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" at Sam Phillips' Sun Studios, in Memphis, Tennessee. With the success of his record, he relocated to Chicago and was a main stay on the blues scene for the next five decades as a session side man and front line attraction. He recorded many of his own albums to include, "After Hours" (1988), "On Top" (1992), "Portrait of a Bluesman" (1993), "Born in the Delta" (1997), "Back on Top" (2000), "Ladies Man" (2004) and "Pinetop and Friends" (2008). He also appeared in the films, "The Blues Brothers" (1980) and "Angel Heart" (1987). In 2005, he received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, a Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Album for "The Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesman: Live in Dallas" (2008) and at age 97, became the oldest-ever Grammy winner, to receive a Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Album for his contributions to the album, "Joined at the Hip" (2010). He was a personal friend of the blues guitarist legend, Robert Johnson and was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2003. (bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
"Big Jack "The Oil Man" Johnson, 70, of Clarksdale, died Monday, March 14, 2011, at the Baptist East Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.
Big Jack was born in Lambert, Miss. He was the seventh child of the late Ellis and Pearlie Johnson. He was educated in the Quitman County School system.
At the age of 13, he became interested in music, inspired by his father. He worked as a farmer early in life and later at Rutledge Oil Co., where he acquired the nick name (The Oil Man).
Big Jack has traveled all over the world performing, touching many lives with his music. He was known for his expertise in guitar, teaching Performing Arts in the Clarksdale Public School System where he encouraged many young kids to play the guitar.
Big Jack was known as a musical artist that wrote and recorded a unique sound of music. He has played with and beside many musical artist in several countries all over the world and has played in two movies with Samuel L. Jackson and Morgan Freeman.
He has been recognized with an impressive number of awards and nominations, just to name a few are the W C Handy award in 2003 for album of the year, the Living Blues Award for most outstanding Blues Musician (guitar), winner of the Crossroads Magazine Blues Record of the Year, nominated for NAIRO Award for Blues Record of the Year "We got to stop this killin", and nominated for the AFIM Award for Electric Blues Record of the Year for "All the way back".
After traveling for many years Big Jack restored his membership at the Liberty Baptist Church in Lyon, Miss. where he played the guitar for the church choir, until his health failed."
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