W.C. Handy, Father of the Blues by Trav S.D.

Today is the birthday of the Father of the Blues, W.C. Handy(1873-1958). In reality, the blues is a folkish form, it was well along in development when Handy, an educated man and a teacher, discovered it in his fact-finding rambles in the deep south. It was Handy who wrote first it down and conveyed it [...]

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