Six Cylinder Smith

Blues singer Josh White claims to have worked for more than five dozen different blind blues singers as a lead boy, although according to White not all of them were really blind. Blind Joe Taggart, for example, actually just had cataracts with resulting vision well above and beyond the range of what is considered legally blind. Taggart's name inevitably comes up in any discussion of Six Cylinder Smith, a blues performer from the Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas area. Six Cylinder Smith's opinion on the women of Pennsylvania, expressed without reservation in the song "Pennsylvania Woma...