Reading this guy's Wikipedia entry, I've literally WTFed every other line; he was quite extraordinary.
To try and sum it all in one paragraph, he was a gifted bluesman and an extraordinary guitar player, who actually invented a new style of guitar-playing back in the 1920s.
After several commercial failures, he abandoned the music career and became a farmer, only to be discovered 30(!) years later in the early 1960s.
After this discovery, he was all the rage for a couple of years, until he died in 1966.
This is one of my favorite songs from this wonderful artist:
Here you can see that he was also a real character:
I think that the simplicity of his voice and the laid back guitar-playing style is a winning combination, making him my current favorite artist*.
* Disclaimer: this may vary daily.
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