Born in Mississippi, Short learned to play the guitar & the piano from Willis Johnson & his son Harris. After moving to St. Louis in 1923, Short was discovered by Jesse Stone & recorded coutry blues for Paramount & Vocalion, but spent most of the 1930s playing clarinet in a St. Louis jazz group. Short was crippled by a wartime injury but continued performing, often as a guitar/harmonica/bass drum one-man band. He sometimes performed with his cousin Big Joe Williams & died a few months after making his final recording with him.
Born in Mississippi, Short learned to play the guitar & the piano from Willis Johnson & his son Harris. After moving to St. Louis in 1923, Short was discovered by Jesse Stone & recorded coutry blues for Paramount & Vocalion, but spent most of the 1930s playing clarinet in a St. Louis jazz group. Short was crippled by a wartime injury but continued performing, often as a guitar/harmonica/bass drum one-man band. He sometimes performed with his cousin Big Joe Williams & died a few months after making his final recording with him.
Bio by: Connie Nisinger
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