Last Kind Words
6 min readOct 25, 2020
The Greatest Blues Song of Them All
This is a sister essay to my piece on Skip James, which can be found here.
L.V. Thomas was born in Houston, Texas on August 7, 1891. “I started playing guitar when I was about 11 years old,” she told researcher Robert “Mack” McCormick. “There were blues even back then. It wasn’t so big a part of music as later but there were blues. I can’t hardly name them — I don’t know…
