John Lee Granderson

John Lee Granderson was born April 11, 1913, in Ellendale, Tennessee, and died August 22, 1979.

Granderson left home in his teens, moving to Chicago, Illinois, in 1928. Although not a professional musician, he did work with John Lee ‘Sonny Boy’ Williamson, among others. He turned to music full-time in the 60s and was featured as sideman and leader on many anthologies, although he never made a full album in his own right. Granderson sang and played guitar in a style close to that of the Memphis musicians of his youth. He stopped performing in public in 1975 and died of cancer in 1979.