CANNON, GUS (BANJO JOE
). Bluesman ( in Red Banks, Mississippi; in Memphis, Tennessee). He played on handmade banjos as a child. At the age of fifteen he began to play for local social entertainments after obtaining a real banjo and receiving a little instruction from Bud Jackson. In 1901 he made a cylinder recording at Belzoni, Mississippi, for the
Victor Talking Machine Company
—thereby becoming the first bluesman to record. He settled in Memphis, Tennessee,...