One String Blues recorded by Frederick Usher

Frederick Usher has died. The noted induistrial designer was a collector and scholar of many sorts of art and music, and in 1960 he recorded one of the most intriguing blues albums ever made, "One String Blues" featuring two homeless street musicians he encountered in Los Angeles, Eddie "One-String" Jones and Edward Hazelton. Jones made his own "one-string" from objects salvaged from the trash. Usher lost track of Jones and Hazelton shortly after recording them in 1960, but their chance encounter with someone with Usher's interest in roots music made their music available to us.