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Did boogie guitar start with a 14-year-old?

Did boogie guitar start with a 14-year-old?

ByPaul Merry June 25, 2018

North East Texas. 1899. A tender-aged ‘songster’, as roaming black minstrels were known back then, had travelled from his home in Louisiana around 1899 to busk in neighbouring Texas. Whether the boy was 10, 11 or 14 depends on which birth date you believe – 1885, 1888 or 1889. All are given in his various biographies,…

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