Lowell Fulson, part Afro American, part Native American, was born on a Choctaw Indian reservation in Tulsa, Oklahoma,  in 1921 and died March 1999 age 77. He started making records after WW2, and his first big hit Every Day I Have The Blues came in 1950, on Down Beat records, which included Ray Charles on piano. He began recording for the Chicago based Checker label (part of Chess Records) in 1954.

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