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Bluesman Joe Calicott was created and lived his very existence in the tiny city of Nesbit, Mississippi, and is among the most underrecorded legends from the Mississippi delta single acoustic blues custom. He first found your guitar at age 15 and, in 1929, 1st made an appearance on 78s as …

b. 11 Oct 1900, Nesbit, Mississippi, USA, d. 1969, Mississippi, USA. Joe Callicott spent his very existence in the region south of Memphis, and his music provides affinities with this of his neighbour Jim Jackson and specifically Frank Stokes, with whom he occasionally proved helpful in Memphis. His key musical …