Poor Boy Lofton

Poor Willie Lofton is a relatively unknown but was, nevertheless, a talented blues singer/guitarist, close in style to Tommy Johnson. His voice was eerily similar to Johnson's, and his staccato guitar style seems to have been drawn at least partially from Johnson. Its perhaps no coincidence that Lofton's most striking song was a version of Johnson's "Big Road Blues," called "Dark Road Blues." Both were from the Jackson area of Mississippi