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Frank Edwards

Born: March 20, 1909

Frank Edwards After learning the guitar in 1923 in St Petesburg (Florida), Tampa Red taught Frank Edwars the bottleneck style. Early in 1941, Frank met Tommy McClennan through whom he recorded for Okeh in Chicago. Around 1946, he stayed in Atlanta and then hit the road again and played in juke joints and medicine shows across the South. Renouncing to travel, he settled in Atlanta in the early fifties and performed locally. Around 1965, he gave up music to become a painter and carpenter. Reunited with Pete Lowery in 1971, he cut his unique and excellent album the following year for Trix and participated in March 1973 in the Chapel Hill Festival (North Carolina)