Lonnie Pitchford
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Lonnie Pitchford (b. near Lexington, Mississippi, October 8, 1955; d. Lexington, Mississippi, November 8, 1998) was a blues musician and instrument maker from Mississippi. He was notable in that he was one of only a handful of young African American musicians from Mississippi who had learned and was continuing the Delta blues and country blues traditions of the older generations.
In addition to the acoustic and electric guitar, Pitchford was also skilled at the one-string guitar and diddley bow, a one-string instrument of African origin, as well as the bass, piano, and harmonica. He was a protégé of Robert Lockwood Jr., from whom he learned the style of Robert Johnson.
On November 8, 1998, Pitchford died at his home in Lexington, Mississippi, from AIDS.
[edit] Film
- American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America, part 3: "The Land Where the Blues Began" (1990). Written, directed, and produced by Alan Lomax; developed by the Association for Cultural Equity at Columbia University and Hunter College. North Carolina Public TV; A Dibb Direction production for Channel 4.
- Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads (1993). Directed by Robert Mugge.
[edit] External links
- "Lonnie Pitchford", from The Mississippi Writers and Musicians Project of Starkville High School
- Illustrated Lonnie Pitchford discography
- Lonnie Pitchford and the one-string guitar
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