Buddy Boy Hawkins

Information about Walter "Buddy Boy" Hawkins remains quite fragmentary, but there does seem to be a consensus that he was probably born in Blytheville, Arkansas sometime in the 1880s or 1890s. Although much of the state bears cultural and geographic similarities to northeastern Texas and northwestern Louisiana, his hometown's proximity to the Mississippi River meant that it was more in the Memphis-Mississippi Delta sphere of influence. As Paul Oliver