Blind Lemon Jefferson was among the first commercially successful blues singers on record, a Texas street musician whose high, keening voice and intricate, syncopated guitar work sold enormously well in the 1920s and helped establish country blues as a viable recording genre in its own right. Songs like 'Match Box Blues' and 'See That My Grave Is Kept Clean' became standards that generations of blues and rock musicians would return to. He died young and in circumstances that remain uncertain, but his records survived as a foundational text of American blues guitar.

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