"“Charley Booker (September 3, 1925 – September 20, 1989) was a
blues singer and
guitarist from the
Mississippi Delta, who recorded in the early 1950s for Modern Records. Charley Booker was born in 1925 on a plantation between the
Mississippi communities of
Moorhead and
Sunflower, the son of Lucius Booker. There is some doubt about his date of birth: while the 1925 birth date was given by Booker in interviews, social security records give the earlier date of September 3, 1919. He learned to play guitar from his uncle, who had played with
Charley Patton, and Booker stated that as a child he had himself seen Patton perform near
Indianola. He worked occasionally as a musician from the late 1930s. By the early 1940s Booker had moved to
Leland, and in 1947 he moved to
Greenville, where he worked with
pianist Willie Love, and also met or worked with musicians such as
Elmore James,
Sonny Boy Williamson II,
Little Milton,
Ike Turner and Houston Boines. By 1951 he had his own radio show (possibly on the WDVM station), and in 1952 he was approached by Ike Turner to record for
Modern Records. …”
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