Sonny Boy Nelson

Blessed Eugene Powell in Utica, Mississippi on Dec 23, 1908, the kid of the interracial affair, Sonny Guy Nelson showed music skills early as a kid, and was using your guitar by enough time he was seven, and finally learned to try out banjo, harmonica, mandolin, violin, and everything types of horns. Blind in a single eyes from a youth incident, Powell was using his stage name by 1936 when he trim six edges in New Orleans for Bluebird Information, using a edition of “Pony Blues” included in this. That might be the level of Powell’s saving for over 30 years before blues revival strike and he was rediscovered, submiting a well-received established at the Celebration of American Folklife in Washington, D.C. in 1972, a collection which was also documented (elements of it made an appearance with an Adelphi Information festival features compilation) and uncovered him to be in order of his musical power. Albatross Information, an Italian label, released the only record that made an appearance under Nelson’s name in his life time, Law enforcement in Mississippi Blues, in 1975. He continuing to play in to the middle-’90s, with youthful blues performers like Lonnie Pitchford, Keb’ Mo’, and Alvin Youngblood Hart lauding his impact, but as his wellness deteriorated, he was put into a nursing house in Greenville, Mississippi, where he passed away November 4, 1998.