Alec Seward

There are a minimum of three different blues musicians who utilized the moniker “Guitar Slim.” In cases like this, the “Slim” involved was the first. Delivered Alec Seward on March 16, 1902, in Charles Town, VA, as a kid (he previously 14 siblings), he found your guitar and started playing frequently at regional dances. When he switched 18, he loaded up and relocated to NY with the purpose of expertly playing music. On the way, Seward struck up a companionship with two bluesmen who performed within the same acoustic Piedmont design as he do, Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry. As the Piedmont design was rapidly getting outdated and also considered corny compared to the recently polished metropolitan blues, Seward remained accurate to his origins. Fortunately, he also arrived in touch with another transplanted Carolina nation blues stylist who was simply also striving to create it NY called Louis Hayes, aka both Excess fat Boy Hayes and Jelly Stomach. Sharing comparable backgrounds and musical designs, the two started performing because the Blues Servant Males, Acoustic guitar Slim & Jelly Stomach, as well as the Backporch Males. As the moniker Acoustic guitar Slim was one that trapped with Seward during the period of his profession, he previously also used on other short-lived aliases, including “Blues Servant Boy,” “Ruler Blues,” and “Georgia Slim.” On the next 2 decades, Seward performed and documented with Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, and Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee. He also released an recording on Blueville, Creepin’ Blues, under his actual name. Seward’s accompaniment on that day was supplied by a guitarist and harmonica participant called Larry Johnson. The rest from the ’60s discovered Seward playing live whenever you can and operating the folk/blues celebrations that had recognition in that 10 years. ON, MAY 11, 1972, Alec Seward was accepted to a medical center in NY where he passed away of organic causes.