Charley Booker was a blues guitarist known for using a bottleneck slide. Born in 1925 in a tiny plantation between the Mississippi communities of Moorhead and Sunflower, the same area that brought fame to Charley Patton. In 1947 Booker moved to Greenville to start his short-lived music career and met other performers such as Elmore James. The recordings he made in 1952 after being approached by Ike Turner dramatically proclaim and reflect the older Delta style he heard as a youngster around the town of Drew - a prime stomping ground for bluesmen in the '20s and '30s. ...show more

Charley Booker was a blues guitarist known for using a bottleneck slide. Born in 1925 in a tiny plantation between the Mississippi communities of Moorhead and Sunflower, the same area that brought fame to Charley Patton. In 1947 Booker moved to Greenville to start his short-lived music career and met other performers such as Elmore James. The recordings he made in 1952 after being approached by Ike Turner dramatically proclaim and reflect the older Delta style he heard as a youngster around the town of Drew - a prime stomping ground for bluesmen in the '20s and '30s.

Booker is also known to have mentored the blues guitarist Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes.. ...show less