Jim Brewer (blues musician)

Jim Brewer (blues musician)

Jim Brewer(October 3, 1920 – June 3, 1988), aka Blind Jim Brewer, though he did not like this additive ("My mother didn’t name me ‘Blind’, she named me ‘Jim’".)

Blues singer and guitarist (real name James Brewer), born in Brookhaven, Mississippi, moved to Chicago in the 1940s spending the latter part of his life busking and performing both blues and religious songs at blues and folk festivals, on Chicago’s Maxwell Street and other venues.

External links

* [http://www.wirz.de/music/brewer.htm Illustrated Jim Brewer discography]


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