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Frank Stokes (other)
Frank Stokes may refer to: * Frank Stokes (musician) (1888–1955), American blues musician, songster, and blackface minstrel * Frank Stokes (footballer) (1881–1945), English professional footballer * Frank Stokes (rugby league) (born 1972), Australian rugby league player * Frank Wilbert Stokes (1858–1955), American sketch artist and painter See also * Francis Stokes {{hndis, Stokes, Frank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Stokes (musician)
Frank Stokes (January 1, 1877 or 1888 – September 12, 1955) was an American blues musician, songster, and blackface minstrel, who is considered by many musicologists to be the father of the Memphis blues guitar style. Biography Stokes was born in Shelby County, Tennessee, in the vicinity of Whitehaven, located two miles north of the Mississippi state line. There is uncertainty over his year of birth; his daughter and later sources reported 1888, but the researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc give 1877, the date on his World War I draft card. His parents died when he was a child, and he was raised by his stepfather in Tutwiler, Mississippi. He learned to play the guitar as a youth in Tutwiler and, after 1895, in Hernando, Mississippi, which was the home of the guitarists Jim Jackson, Dan Sane, Elijah Avery (of Cannon's Jug Stompers), and Robert Wilkins. By the turn of the century, Stokes was working as a blacksmith, traveling 25 miles to Memphis on weekends to sing and play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |