Woods was more known as a performer than composer, although he co-wrote a few lesser songs and some early blues.
His early blues performances in Texas drew puzzled or hostile reactions from white bar crowds.
He is regarded as one of the earliest urban blues performers, with no pronounced rural influences.
It was a common setting for early blues and jazz music.
Behind them the great column of smoke and flame spiraled up into the early blue of morning.
It was inspired by an earlier blues song and later influenced other popular songs.
Boogie-woogie was another important style of 1930s and early 1940s urban blues.
It specializes in early American blues, jazz and western swing music.
He deliberately aims for a lo-fi sound, akin to early blues recordings.
The early blues and jazz players used the picks back then.
