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Blind Lemon Jefferson

Often referred to as the father of Texan blues and a major influence on rock'n'roll, Lemon Jefferson stands as one of the most influential of the true blues greats, both for his extraordinarily wild voice and distinctively uninhibited guitar style. Blind at birth and one of eight children born into a sharecropping family, he learned to play guitar in his teens and went on to become a street musician playing in different towns in East Texas. Moving to Dallas, he met and played with Leadbelly and T-Bone Walker and became one of the earliest and most successful blues performers of t...