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Johnny "Daddy Stovepipe" Watson (1867–1963) grew up in Mobile, Alabama where he first learned to play harmonica and later took up twelve-string guitar. As a young man, he traveled minstrel and medicine shows, sporting a stovepipe hat that earned him the nickname "Daddy Stovepipe". Watson's recording debut, for Gennett, occurred in 1924. While living in Greenville, Mississippi in the 1930s, Wa...read more