Tampa Red was an American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter, one of the important figures in early Chicago blues. He was especially known for his smooth slide-guitar style.

In the Pristine catalogue he appears in The Man With The Gold Guitar, preserving a distinctive blues strand alongside the classical archive.

His playing combined polish, fluency and rhythmic ease, giving the guitar a singing line with urban blues sophistication.

His page is essential for the blues shelf. Tampa Red gives the catalogue a golden slide-guitar voice, bright, nimble and unmistakably stylish.