Clarence Edwards
b. 25 March 1933, Linsey, Louisiana, USA, d. 20 May 1993. Edwards began playing blues guitar at around the age of 12, when he moved into Baton Rouge. In the '50s and '60s, he was working the same local blues circuit as men like Lightnin' Slim, in bands with names such as the Boogie Beats and the Bluebird Kings. His first experience of recording was in a traditional setting, in sessions for folklorist Harry Oster between 1959 and 1961, with his brother Cornelius and violinist James ‘Butch’ Cage. Nine years later, he recorded again, this time with a more contemporary sound, and since the mid-80s, when the blues scene revived with the help of Tabby Thomas's Blues Box club, he has been playing regularly again. In 1990, he made his first album, a powerful mixture of acoustic and electric sounds in the swamp blues style.