A guide to the traditional blues playing style of the Mississippi bluesman who lived in Memphis and had a gift for storytelling and showmanship. Walter 'Furry' Lewis recorded 25 songs between 1927 and 1929, as well asseveralalbums in the 1960s for Folkways, Prestige and other labels after being rediscovered as part of the great blues rebirth.

As a guitarist, Furry Lewis was a two-finger picker with a huge vocabulary of sounds athisfingertips. He worked effortlessly with both broad strokes...