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...