Louie Bluie 1930 Kids T-Shirt

Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong (March 4, 1909 – July 30, 2003) was an American string band and country blues musician, who played fiddle, mandolin, and guitar and sang. He was also a notable visual artist and raconteur, but one of his claims to fame was being able to play any stringed instrument his picked up. Armstrong was born in Dayton, Tennessee, and was the middle son from a family of nine kids. As a teen, he taught himself to play the fiddle and joined a band led by Blind Roland Martin and his brother Carl. They toured performing a wide range of music, from work songs and spirituals through popular Tin Pan Alley tunes and foreign-language songs. Armstrong, his brother Roland, and Carl Martin, billed as the Tennessee Chocolate Drops.