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Journal Article
'I Walked from Dallas, I Walked to Wichita Falls': Blind Lemon Jefferson's Enduring Ramble
2020
Overview
Lemon Henry \"Blind Lemon\" Jefferson was born in 1893 on a sharecropper farm near Couchman TX, north of Wortham in Freestone County; he died in Chicago IL in 1929. The cause of his blindness is unknown, but by the time he had reached his teens, Lemon was an accomplished musician. His impact and success were instantaneous. As blues scholar David Evans notes, \"Jefferson was the first community-based folk blues singer/guitarist to become a star on phonograph records.\" Years later Yazoo Records, a company that specializes in reissuing early rural American music, proclaimed him \"King of the Country Blues.\" Aaron Thibeaux Walker, an electric guitar pioneer who earned fame as \"T-Bone\" Walker, was one of the lads enlisted to assist Jefferson. Black musicians like Walker were not the only one taking cues from Blind Lemon Jefferson.
Publisher
Texas State Historical Association
