Buddy Moss

Eugene Moss, known as Buddy Moss, was one of the most talented Piedmont blues guitarists of the 1930s, often mentioned alongside Blind Boy Fuller and Blind Blake as the masters of the East Coast fingerpicking style. He recorded 66 sides for ARC between 1933 and 1941, featuring a clean, rhythmic guitar style and confident vocals. His career was interrupted by a prison sentence for murder (he was convicted of shooting his wife, though the circumstances were disputed), and he never fully recovered his commercial momentum after release. He was rediscovered during the folk revival but made only limited recordings before his death.