Archie, (born September 4, 1918 on a farm near Union Hall, Virginia, U.S.A. - died June 18, 1998 in Seat Pleasant, Maryland, U.S.A., buried in Fort Lincoln Cemetery, Brentwood, Prince George's County, Maryland.) was an American Piedmont blues guitarist, who in a sporadic career spanning several decades worked with Mississippi John Hurt, Skip James, and John Jackson. His best-known recordings are "Saturday Night Hop", "The Road Is Rough and Rocky", and "I Called My Baby Long Distance". In the late 1950s he owned a barbershop in Washington D.C., that attracted blues musicians who helped to start his musical career.
Local musicians, inspired by his legacy, founded the Archie Edwards Blues Heritage Foundation to serve as a museum and educational center.
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