found: His Blind Lemon Jefferson, 1926-29 [SR] p1984: label (Blind Lemon Jefferson)
found: Southern, E. Biog. dict. of Afro-American and African musicians, 1982 (Jefferson, Lemon ("Blind Lemon"); b. July 1897; d. Dec.? 1929)
found: New Grove dict. of Amer. mus. (Jefferson, Blind Lemon; b. ca. 1897, Couchman, TX, d. 1930, Chicago, IL; blues singer and guitarist)
found: Int. dict. of Black composers, 1999 (Jefferson, Blind Lemon; b. Sept. 1893, near Wortham, Tex., d. Dec. 1929, Chicago, Ill.; folk blues singer/guitarist)
found: Santelli, R. Big book of blues, 1993 (Jefferson, Blind Lemon (aka Deacon L.J. Bates); b. July 1897, Couchman, Tex., d. Dec. 1929, Chicago, Ill.; recorded spirituals under the name Bates)
found: Harris, S. Blues who's who, c1979 (Jefferson, "Blind" Lemon; aka Deacon LJ Bates/Elder JC Brown); b. July 1897, Couchman (Freestone Co.), TX, d. Dec. 1929, Chicago, IL (unconfirmed))
found: Enc. of pop. mus., 3rd ed. (Jefferson, Blind Lemon; b. July 1897, Wortham (Couchman), Tex., d. Dec. 1929, Chicago, Ill.; first recordings were religious songs issued under pseudonym, Reverend L.J. Bates)
Jefferson, Blind Lemon, 1897-1929
