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3 unusual facts about Sonny Boy Williamson I


Sonny Boy Williamson

Sonny Boy Williamson I (1914–1948), John Lee Curtis Williamson, "The Original Sonny Boy Williamson", born in Tennessee and associated with Bluebird Records (recordings from 1937 to 1948)

Sonny Boy Williamson I

The historical marker is located south of Jackson on TN Highway 18, at the corner of Caldwell Road.

He was popular enough that by the 1940s, another blues harp player, Aleck/Alex "Rice" Miller, from Mississippi, began also using the name Sonny Boy Williamson.


Harmonica techniques

Players to use the Tongue Blocking Technique are but not limited to Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson I, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Big Walter Horton, James Cotton, George Smith among many others.


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