STACKHOUSE, HOUSTON

STACKHOUSE, HOUSTON. Bluesman (28 September 1910 in Wesson, Mississippi). Although he was influenced by uncles who played blues guitar, he first studied with Tommy Johnson and his brothers, Mager and Clarence, who lived in Crystal Springs, where he settled as a young man. He taught himself to play harmonica by listening to his cousin, Robert (Nighthawk) McCullum (aka McCoy) , and to play string instruments, violin and mandolin, by listening to Lonnie Chatman and Jimmy Smith. When...