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b. Lester Kinsey, 18 March 1927, Pleasant Grove, Mississippi, USA, 3 Apr 2001. An recognized disciple of Muddy Waters, Kinsey possessed his first acoustic guitar at age six. Before traveling north in 1944, he previously noticed both Waters (after that still McKinley Morganfield) and pianist Pinetop Perkins play at regional …

A long time before Lester “Big Daddy” Kinsey and his clan hit the worldwide blues circuit, he established himself because the modern-day blues patriarch of Gary, Indiana so when the Metal City’s response to Muddy Waters. A glide guitarist and harp blower with root base in both Mississippi Delta and …