Jenkins, Blind Andy

Jenkins, Blind Andy (November 26, 1885; ca. 1956 or 1957) The man who was one of the most important country composers of the 1920s was born sighted in Jenkinsburg, Georgia, a community on the outskirts of Atlanta. A faulty medication prescribed for him as an infant left him virtually sightless, and in 1939 what limited vision he had was lost. During his early adulthood, Jenkins made his living selling newspapers, but at age twenty one he became a preacher and thereafter was addressed as the…