Sam Myers - I Got The Blues

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- Samuel Joseph Myers (Feb. 19, 1936 – July 17, 2006) was an American blues musician and songwriter. He was an accompanist on dozens of recordings by blues artists over 5 decades. He began his career as a drummer for Elmore James but was most famous as a blues vocalist and blues harp player. For nearly 2 decades he was the featured vocalist for Anson Funderburgh & the Rockets.



- Myers in concert, 2006.

Myers was born in Laurel, Mississippi. He acquired juvenile cataracts at age 7 and was left legally blind for the rest of his life, despite corrective surgery. He could make out shapes and shadows but could not read print at all; he was taught Braille. He acquired an interest in music while a schoolboy in Jackson, Miss., and became skilled enough at playing the trumpet and drums that he received a nondegree scholarship from the American Conservatory of Music (formerly the Amer. Conservatory School of Music) in Chicago. Myers attended school by day and at night frequented the nightclubs of the South Side. There he met and was sitting in with Jimmy Rogers, Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, Little Walter, Hound Dog Taylor, Robert Lockwood, Jr., & Elmore James...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Myers