W. C. Handy hears a guitarist at Tutwiler station

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Waiting for a train at Tutwiler, Mississippi, the bandleader W. C. Handy hears a man press a knife against the strings of a guitar and sing "Goin' where the Southern cross' the Dog" — a line naming a railway junction. Handy recorded the encounter in his 1941 autobiography, nearly four decades later, and it is the most cited early description of blues performance. It is a recollection, not a recording; what it documents is the moment a literate professional musician first found the practice worth writing down.

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