September 22, 2015

90 Goree Carter (1930-1990) “Rock Awhile” 1949

A self-taught guitarist from Houston, he resisted his manager’s insistence to imitate T-Bone Walker. He was drafted into the army during the Korean War; the war “and the strain of nursing his ailing mother effectively ended his short career” (The Encyclopedia of Popular Music).

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