Arthur "Big Boy" Spires

Arthur "Big Boy" Spires (February 25, 1912 – October 22, 1990) was an American blues singer and guitarist who recorded for several record labels in Chicago in the 1950s and 1960s.
Spires was born in Natchez, Mississippi (some sources give his birthplace as Yazoo City), on February 25, 1912. He took up the guitar in the late 1930s and by 1939 or 1940 was proficient enough to work with Lightnin' Hopkins at the Beer Garden in Yazoo City.Rowe... meer