Brewer, Jim Blind

Brewer, Jim “Blind” 3 October 1920; Brookhaven, MS – 3 June 1988; Chicago, IL Guitar/vocal/autoharp. With his blues-playing father and religious mother at odds over how best to help their blind son get along, Jim resolved the conflict, saying “No one was ever hurt by a song.” He played religious music, blues, and folk songs for more than fifty years, hopping freights and traveling around Mississippi, playing on Maxwell Street, around Chicago, and later, around the United States and Canada in…