Henry Townsend
Sign in to saveAlso known as Henry Jesse James Townsend, Henry James Townsend, The Mule
American musician (1909–2006)
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- It's Not My Fault
- Violence in Today's School Workplace
- A Blues Life (Music in American Life)
- The doctrine of grace in the synoptic gospels
- Memoir of the Rev. Henry Townsend, late C.M.S. Missionary, Abeokuta, West Africa
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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 pian
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Henry
- Family name
- Townsend
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Shelby
- Place of death
- Mequon
- Occupation
- pianist
- Genre
- blues
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Columbia Records
- Conflict
- World War II
- Military branch
- United States Army Air Forces
- Military rank
- Private
- Image
- Henry Townsend at Burkhardt's Oyster Bar in St. Louis.jpg
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- date of death
- 2006-09-25
- date of birth
- 1909-10-27
- Commons category
- Henry Townsend
- date of burial or cremation
- 2006-10-02
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