Wardlow, Gayle Dean

Wardlow, Gayle Dean 31 August 1940; Freer, TX Collector, writer, and historian, specializing in pre-1943 Mississippi blues. At age seven, he and his family moved to Meridian, Mississippi, where he was raised. He became interested in early blues after reading Samuel Charters’s 1959 book The Country Blues, and he recognized there was much to be rediscovered about Mississippi blues. During the 1960s, he was a newspaper reporter for the Meridian Star and the Jackson Daily News, and while on…