Monthly Archives: March, 2014

Buster Pickens

Posted in - Biography on March 15th 2014 0 Comments

Blind Lemon Jefferson famously sang that “the blues came to Texas loping like a mule” but a better metaphor might have been the freight train. It was the railroad that linked the far flung Texas towns where the bluesman, particularly the piano players, plied their trade. In one of the greatest train blues, …