Burns, Eddie

Burns, Eddie 8 February 1928; Belzoni, MS Guitarist and harmonica player who flourished in the Detroit postwar blues scene; also known as Little Eddie “Guitar” Burns. Burns was initially influenced by recordings of John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson and Tommy McClennan. He played harmonica as a sideman to Aleck Miller (Sonny Boy Williamson II) and Pinetop Perkins from 1943 through 1947 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Moving to Detroit in 1948, he was taken under the wing of John Lee Hooker, with whom…