LEWIS, WALTER (FURRY
). Bluesman ( in Greenwood, Mississippi). His family moved to Memphis, Tennessee, when he was six years old. He began playing guitar as a child but did not play professionally until 1917. For many years he traveled with medicine shows, at first in a jug band that included Gus Cannon,
Will Shade
, and Jim Jackson. In 1927 he made his first recordings and recorded regularly during the next few years. He was overlooked, however, when the revival...