KING, ALBERT

KING, ALBERT. Bluesman (25 April 1923 in Indianola, Mississippi). He taught himself to play guitar as a youth and played for local social entertainments and in clubs of Osceola, Mississippi, at an early age. He began playing professionally in the late 1930s in Osceola. Thereafter he was active in various places, including South Bend, Indiana, where he also sang with the Harmony Kings Gospel Quartet; St. Louis, Missouri, and nearby areas; and in Osceola with his own group, the In the...