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Frank Stokes

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American blues musician, songster, and blackface minstrel (1888–1955)

Person · Open Library

Born
1858
Died
1955
Works
3

Top works

  • [The Northern regions pamphlets]
  • Exhibition at the Brooklyn Institute Museum of Arctic and Antarctic Pictures
  • Frank Wilbert Stokes correspondence

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
33,712
Total plays
165,408

Tags

bluesdelta bluescountry bluesfolkmemphis blues

Frank Stokes (January 1, 1888 – September 12, 1955) was a blues musician who is considered by many musicologists to be the father of the Memphis blues guitar style. He was born in Shelby County, Tennessee, in South Memphis' largest vicinity Whitehaven, located two miles north of the Mississippi line. He was raised by his stepfather in Tutwiler, Mississippi, after the death of his parents. Stokes learned to play guitar as a youth in Tutwiler, and <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Frank+Stokes">

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