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String Beans and Sweetie Matthews May brought blues to the world [1]
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Date: 2025-03-11
The southern theater circuit in the 1900s featured an act that was well known in the Black community.
Butler “String Beans” and Sweetie Matthews May “were major stars, widely imitated and familiar to African American theatergoers throughout the country,” wrote Elijah Wald, a folk blues guitarist, journalist and a music historian. “They never recorded. As a result, they have tended to be left out of blues histories.”
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