W. C. Handy

William Christopher Handy (November 16, 1873 - March 28, 1958) was an African American blues composer, often known as "The Father of the Blues".

External links

Listen

• Handy's Memphis Blues Band 1922 performance of St. Louis Blues: audio on redhotjazz.com
• Bessie Smith sings the Saint Louis Blues, accompanied by Louis Armstrong and Fred Longshaw, 1925: audio on redhotjazz.com

Read

• W.C. Handy website @ the University of North Alabama, Florence
• Official Site of the Annual W.C. Handy Music Festival in Florence, AL
• W.C. Handy's 1993 Lifework Award for Performing Achievement; Induction into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame
• The Blues Foundation's W.C. Handy Blues Awards
• Book excerpt on Handy by Tom Morgan
• Year of the Blues Official website
• Brief W.C. Handy biography by Maisah B. Robinson, Ph.D.
• Rare American Sheet Music Collection at Duke University; shows musical content of published sheet music
• United States Library of Congress African-American Sheet Music Collection, 1850-1920 (from Brown University) - a searchable database - shows copies of original works
• Photographs of W.C. Handy's gravesite