V. RARE HENRY TOWNSEND 78 POOR MAN BLUES / MISTREATED BLUES COLUMBIA 14491 E/E+
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A REALLY EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS MEGA RARE ORIGINAL US COLUMBIA BLUES 78 FROM HENRY TOWNSEND
POOR MAN BLUES
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b/w MISTREATED BLUES
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FROM WIKIPEADIATownsend was born Henry Jesse James Townsend, in Shelby, Mississippi, and grew up in Cairo, Illinois. He left home at the age of nine because of an abusive father and hoboed his way to St. Louis, Missouri. He learned guitar while in his early teens from a locally renowned blues guitarist known as Dudlow Joe.
By the late 1920s he had begun touring and recording with the pianist Walter Davis and had acquired the nickname Mule, because he was sturdy in both physique and character. In St. Louis, he worked with some of the early blues pioneers, including J. D. Short.
Townsend was one of the only artists known to have recorded in nine consecutive decades. He first recorded in 1929 and remained active up to 2006. By the mid-1990s, Townsend and his one-time collaborator Yank Rachell were the only active blues artists whose careers had started in the 1920s. He recorded on several different labels, including Columbia Records and Folkways Records
CONDITION - E/EX+ VERY NICE INDEED!
A MEGA RARE US BLUES 78 IN REALLY EXCELLENT CONDITION
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