A great reissue of ESSENTIAL BLUES HISTORY on 180-gram vinyl. PEG LEG HOWELL was a forgotten, impoverished blues artist when musicologist George Mitchell recorded him at age 75 in 1963. It is these recordings that make up 'The Legendary Peg Leg Howell' record, originally on Testament. But Peg Leg was actually part of the original wave of blues recording artists, recording for Columbia in 1926. His story is like many: when success proved illusive, he turned his back on music and settled for bootlegging and other types of work until rediscovered in the '60s. By then, he was old and fragile... qualities that translate beautifully on this quiet, haunting record.