BOYD, EDWARD RILEY (EDDIE
). Blues pianist ( in Stovall, Mississippi), He left home at the age of fourteen to live in Memphis, Tennessee, where he began his professional career. He taught himself to play guitar by listening to
Memphis Minnie
(Minnie Douglass Lawlers)
on the radio; his main instrument was the piano, however, and the chief influences upon his style were
Roosevelt Sykes
and
Leroy Carr
. In 1941 he went to Chicago, where he first teamed with...
BOYD, EDWARD RILEY
(*1914)> BLUES PIANIST