Black Ace Biography
Babe Kyro Lemon Turner, 21 December 1907, Hughes Springs, Texas, USA, d. 7 November 1972, Fort Worth, Texas, USA. Black Ace was a blues guitarist from childhood, but his mature style developed after he moved to Shreveport in the mid-30s and met Oscar Woods. In 1937 he recorded six superb blues for Decca Records, singing in his deep voice and playing fluent, complex slide guitar, his steel-bodied instrument held across his lap and fretted with a small bottle. Ace was a frequent broadcaster on local radio, and made an appearance in the 1941 film Blood Of Jesus, but after Army service from 1943, he largely abandoned music; when rediscovered in 1960, however, he had retained all his abilities, and recorded a splendid album.
Source: The Encyclopedia of Popular Music by Colin Larkin. Licensed from Muze.
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