Blues guitarist Joe McCoy was born and raised in the Mississippi Delta town of Raymond. He taught himself to play guitar and was soon working at parties and picnics in the area around Jackson, MS, with his brother Charlie. In the mid-1920s he moved to Memphis, TN, and teamed up with Memphis Minnie and Jed Davenport's Beale Street Jug Band. In 1929, calling himself Kansas Joe, he and Minnie signed a recording contract with Columbia Records. They also played in clubs in Memphis and Chicago, and ev...
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