Tony Hollins was a Mississippi-born blues singer and guitarist, raised near Clarksdale and working for much of his life as a barber, who cut a small handful of sides for OKeh Records in Chicago in 1941, among them "Crawlin' King Snake" and "Traveling Man Blues." He never sustained a music career and returned to Clarksdale, but his personal connection to a teenage John Lee Hooker, whom he mentored on guitar and gave his first instrument, carried his songs forward into the electric blues canon long after his own recordings had faded from view.