Frank Stokes (December 1887 or January 1888 - September 12, 1955) was a blues musician, songster, and blackface minstrel who is considered by many musicologists to be the father of the Memphis blues guitar style. Born in White Haven, Tennessee, two miles north of the Mississippi state line, Frank Stokes was raised in Tutwiler, Mississippi, after the death of his parents. Stokes learned to play guitar as a youth in Tutwiler, and, after 1895, in Hernando, Mississippi, … Wikipedia
When Victor's field recording unit came to Memphis early in 1928, among the black musicians waiting for it was Frank Stokes. www.document-records.com/fulldetails.asp?ProdID=DOCD-5013
Rodgers's career began in medicine shows where he occasionally put on blackface and frequently played with Frank Stokes, a black songster of Memphis from whom he is thought to have acquired much of his song collection. www.jessicagrant.net/thesis/minmed.html
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Born January 1, 1888, in White Haven, Tennessee, two miles north of the Mississippi state line, Frank Stokes was raised in Tutwiler, Mississippi, after the death of his parents. www.cr.nps.gov/delta/blues/people/frank_stokes.htm
