Who was the first white blues-man?

Answer 1

Oh honey, the first white blues-man was most likely someone who decided to pick up a guitar and start wailing about their troubles. The blues has been around for ages, so it's hard to pinpoint an exact first. But I'm sure there was some dude with a guitar and a broken heart belting out those soulful tunes way back when.

Answer 2

It would be impossible to answer directly who the first white blues-man was for obvious reasons: lack of documentation/evidence/recordings. There were probably a handful of blues-men since the blues' earliest days (1890's or early 1900's).

However, Frank Hutchison is generally regarded as the first white blues-man to record blues songs.

Between 1926 and 1929, Hutchison recorded forty-one sides for the Okeh record company, of which nine were unissued. Three of the issued sides and three of the unissued were recorded with Sherman Lawson, a Logan County fiddler; others featured Hutchison's guitar, harmonica and voice. Hutchison also performed in the "Okeh Medicine Show," released by Okeh in 1929.