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Henry Townsend

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Also known as Henry Jesse James Townsend, Henry James Townsend, The Mule

American musician (1909–2006)

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7

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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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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1909-10-27
Active to
2006-09-24

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5,605
Total plays
22,471

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bluesClassic Bluesacoustic bluesAllaudible conquest

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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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
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Henry Townsend
date of burial or cremation
2006-10-02
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