NIXON (née DAVIS), HAMMIE. Bluesman ( in Brownsville, Tennessee). He taught himself to play harmonica as a child, influenced by harmonica player
Noah Lewis
of Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers. When he was eleven years old he began playing for
(Sleepy
) John Estes
, and the two formed a partnership that lasted over fifty years—until Estes's death in 1977. They first played on street corners and for local entertainments, then later traveled with medicine shows. In 1934 Nixon...
NIXON
(*1908)> BLUESMAN