Henry Townsend

Henry Townsend. Self: 10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads. Blues pianist and guitarist Henry Townsend was born in 1909 in Shelby, MS. He became a major figure in the renowned "St. Louis blues" scene in the 1920s and 1930s, and was one of the musicians responsible for making St. Louis the blues center of the US in the pre-World War II period. He traveled from his Mississippi home to St....