Littlefield, Little Willie

Littlefield, Little Willie 16 September 1931; El Campo, TX Blues singer and pianist. Willie Littlefield’s great-great grandmother was an Apache Indian. He was raised by his mother in Houston’s Third Ward. He was influenced by his grandparents’ C&W music, his mother’s gospel music, and his aunt’s blues. He taught himself how to play the guitar when he was six, and it was not long before his mother bought her musical son a piano as well. Charles Brown and Amos Milburn became his heroes. At high…