Henry Townsend

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World Full Of People 00:00 Tools
Poor Man Blues 00:00 Tools
I Asked Her If She Loved Me 00:00 Tools
All My Money's Gone 00:00 Tools
Cairo Blues 00:00 Tools
Tired Of Being Mistreated 00:00 Tools
What You Did Last Night 00:00 Tools
The Train is Coming 00:00 Tools
Less Than A Man 00:00 Tools
Henry's Worry Blues 00:00 Tools
No Fuss And Fight 00:00 Tools
Rocks Have Been My Pillow 00:00 Tools
Biddle Street Blues 00:00 Tools
Can't You See 00:00 Tools
Tears Come Rollin' Down 00:00 Tools
Jack of Diamonds Georgia Rub 00:00 Tools
Tears Came Rollin' Down 00:00 Tools
Don't Love That Woman 00:00 Tools
Doctor, Oh Doctor 00:00 Tools
Mistreated Blues 00:00 Tools
I Got Tired 00:00 Tools
Dreaming 00:00 Tools
Sick With the Blues 00:00 Tools
It's Got To End Somewhere 00:00 Tools
A Four Legged Friend 00:00 Tools
Cairo Is My Baby's Home 00:00 Tools
A Ramblin' Mind 00:00 Tools
Sloppy Drunk Again 00:00 Tools
Tell Me 00:00 Tools
If I Asked You 00:00 Tools
Put Me On Hold 00:00 Tools
Now I Stay Away 00:00 Tools
Repentance Blues 00:00 Tools
My Story 00:00 Tools
Bad Luck Dice 00:00 Tools
All I've Got's Gone 00:00 Tools
Lose Your Man 00:00 Tools
Goodbye 00:00 Tools
You Should've Told Me 00:00 Tools
All My Money Gone 00:00 Tools
Screaming And Crying 00:00 Tools
My Home Ain't Here 00:00 Tools
Tears Came Rolling Down 00:00 Tools
Why Do We Love Each Other? 00:00 Tools
She's Got a Mean Disposition 00:00 Tools
Nothing But Trouble 00:00 Tools
Heart Trouble 00:00 Tools
Help Me Darling 00:00 Tools
Every Day Of My Life 00:00 Tools
Deep Morgan Stomp 00:00 Tools
Sloppy Drunk Again! 00:00 Tools
Long Ago Blues 00:00 Tools
Wave My Hands Bye Bye 00:00 Tools
Dark Clouds Rising 00:00 Tools
She Just Walked Away 00:00 Tools
Doing Better In Life 00:00 Tools
Got To Reap What You Sow 00:00 Tools
Doctor Oh Doctor 00:00 Tools
Buzz, Buzz, Buzz 00:00 Tools
Things Have Changed 00:00 Tools
Alley Strut 00:00 Tools
Now Or Never 00:00 Tools
She Drove Me To Drinking 00:00 Tools
What You Did Last Night (Live) 00:00 Tools
I'm Just An Ordinary Man 00:00 Tools
Don't You Remember Me? 00:00 Tools
Talkin' Guitar Blues 00:00 Tools
The Old Man's Soul 00:00 Tools
My Baby Have Come Back 00:00 Tools
If You Don't Want Me 00:00 Tools
Blind Girl Blues 00:00 Tools
The Train Is At The Station 00:00 Tools
My Sweet Candy 00:00 Tools
Overstayed My Time 00:00 Tools
Long Ago 00:00 Tools
Jack O' Diamonds - Georgia Rub 00:00 Tools
She's Got What I Want 00:00 Tools
It's A Hard Road To Travel 00:00 Tools
People Need People 00:00 Tools
Henry's Worried Blues 00:00 Tools
Baby Boy Blues 00:00 Tools
She Walked Away… 00:00 Tools
Blero - Cant You See 00:00 Tools
Dirty Trick Blues 00:00 Tools
No Home Blues 00:00 Tools
Change Your Name 00:00 Tools
Train Comin' 00:00 Tools
Take A Chance 00:00 Tools
I'm Having Bad Luck 00:00 Tools
The Three Gs Blues 00:00 Tools
Baby Please Don't Go 00:00 Tools
Heart Broken Man Blues 00:00 Tools
Hard Luck Story 00:00 Tools
World Full Of People [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
Your Doggone Ways 00:00 Tools
Going Back Home 00:00 Tools
You've Changed 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna Stay 00:00 Tools
Night Is Falling 00:00 Tools
Big City Blues 00:00 Tools
Tears Settled In My Eyes 00:00 Tools
Have No Fear 00:00 Tools
The Cut Back Blues 00:00 Tools
Hey Dear Brother 00:00 Tools
I Believe in Love 00:00 Tools
Drivin' On The Highway 00:00 Tools
She's Gone 00:00 Tools
The 88 Blues 00:00 Tools
The Three G's Blues 00:00 Tools
Every Day I Have The Blues 00:00 Tools
Heartbroken Man Blues 00:00 Tools
Doctor Oh Doctor (Pm 13097, L-464-1) 00:00 Tools
Nothing But Blues 00:00 Tools
Down by That Muddy Pond 00:00 Tools
Slap Her Down 00:00 Tools
Hear Me Cryin' 00:00 Tools
Gone Too Long 00:00 Tools
The Way You're Actin' 00:00 Tools
Leave You Alone 00:00 Tools
The Cutback Blues 00:00 Tools
I Asked Her If She Lov 00:00 Tools
Search Your Heart 00:00 Tools
Too Pretty for Me 00:00 Tools
No Doggin' 00:00 Tools
Buzz, Buzz, Buzz... 00:00 Tools
Now Or Never! 00:00 Tools
Jack Of Diamonds Georgia Rub (Pm 13097, L-469-1) 00:00 Tools
M&O Blues 00:00 Tools
What Would You Do 00:00 Tools
Good Bye, Baby 00:00 Tools
Nothin' but Blues 00:00 Tools
Poor Man Blues (1929) 00:00 Tools
Lost A Good Woman 00:00 Tools
It's a Hard Toad to Travel 00:00 Tools
She Walked Away... 00:00 Tools
Cant You See 00:00 Tools
Mistreated Blues (1929) 00:00 Tools
Cairo's My Baby's Home 00:00 Tools
Got To Reap What You Sow (Live) 00:00 Tools
Sick With The Blues (1933) 00:00 Tools
She's Got A Mean Disposition (1935) 00:00 Tools
Sloppy Drunk 00:00 Tools
What Have I Committed (spoken) 00:00 Tools
She Walked Away 00:00 Tools
Baby Tell Me, What's On Your Mind 00:00 Tools
Baby Boy Blues (1) 00:00 Tools
Done Got Tired - Live 00:00 Tools
People Need People (1) 00:00 Tools
Turned on and Off (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Going Back To My Baby (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Everyday of My Life 00:00 Tools
"Cairo blues" 00:00 Tools
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Henry 'Mule' Townsend (27 October 1909, Shelby, Mississippi – 25 September 2006, Mequon, Wisconsin) was an American blues singer, guitarist and pianist. Townsend was born in Shelby, Mississippi and grew up in Cairo, Illinois. He left home at the age of nine because of an abusive father and hoboed his way to St. Louis, Missouri. He learned guitar while in his early teens from a locally renowned blues guitarist known as "Dudlow Joe". By the late 1920s he had begun touring and recording with pianist Walter Davis, and had acquired the nickname "Mule" because he was sturdy in both physique and character. In St. Louis, he worked with some of the early blues pioneers, including J.D. Short. Townsend was one of the only artists known to have recorded in every decade for the last 80 years. He has recorded on several different labels including Columbia and Folkways Records. He first recorded in 1929 and remained active up to 2006. By the mid 1990s, Townsend and his one-time collaborator Yank Rachell were the only active blues artists whose performing lives stretched back to the 1920s. Articulate and self-aware with an excellent memory, Townsend gave many invaluable interviews to Blues enthusiasts and scholars. Paul Oliver recorded him in 1960 and quoted him extensively in his 1967 work Conversations with the Blues. Thirty years later, Bill Greensmith edited thirty hours of taped interviews with Henry to produce a full autobiography, giving a vivid history of the Blues scene in St Louis and East St Louis in its prime. In 1985 he received the National Heritage Fellowship in recognition of being a master artist. In 1995 he was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame. Townsend died, at the age of 96, on September 24, 2006, at St. Mary's Ozaukee Hospital, Mequon, Wisconsin, just hours after having been the first person to be presented with a 'key' in Grafton's Paramount Plaza Walk of Fame. On December 4, 2009, Henry Townsend was added to the Mississippi Blues Trail. On February 10, 2008 Henry Townsend received a Grammy Award at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards in the Best Traditional Blues Album category for his performances on Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live In Dallas released by The Blue Shoe Project. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.