Little Willie Farmer

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Little Willie Farmer (born Willie Cris Farmer, 1956) is a blues singer, guitarist and songwriter and a lifelong resident of Duck Hill, Mississippi. Self-taught from the radio and drawn to B.B. King, Little Milton, Howlin' Wolf and Lightnin' Hopkins, he played local juke joints while working as an auto mechanic with his own shop. Widely regarded as one of the finest practitioners of traditional Mississippi blues, he co-founded the annual Grassroots Blues Festival near Duck Hill in 2003

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