Tommy Bankhead

Tommy Bankhead (October 24, 1931 – December 16, 2000) was an American Delta blues guitarist and singer who played with Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson I, Elmore James (his cousin),^[1] Joe Willie Wilkins, Robert Nighthawk, and Joe Hill Louis.^[2] He sometimes played the bass guitar and harmonica. He released a few albums under his own name.^[3] In his later years, he toured as Tommy Bankhead and the Blues Eldoradoes.

Bankhead was born in Lake Cormorant, Mississippi,^[1] and lived in St. Louis, Missouri, for most of his life. He was a fixture in St. Louis blues for over fifty years. He died in St. Louis in December 2000, of respiratory failure due to emphysema.^[2]

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