J.T. Adams

b. John Tyler Adams, 17 Feb 1911, Morganfield, Kentucky, USA. Adams discovered blues electric guitar from his dad; shifting to Indianapolis in the 40s, he dropped along with Francis Hillman ‘Scrapper’ Blackwell, and Mississippian Shirley Griffith, a fellow Chrysler worker who became his closest musical associate. Each followed the additional, their twin guitars mixing as impeccably on Mississippi blues requirements such as for example ‘Big Street Blues’, as on songster materials such as for example ‘Destroy It Child’ and ‘The Hop Joint’. Adams was documented in the first 60s, but was heard about small thereafter, although he was reported still to become partnering Griffith during the second option’s loss of life in 1974.