Eddie Mapp

Eddie Mapp (c. 1910 – November 14, 1931)

In 1929, billed as the Georgia Cotton Pickers, they recorded for the Atlanta-based QRS label. Mapp also cut one solo track, "Riding the Blinds", the same year. None of the songs sold well.

In November 1931, Mapp was found stabbed on an Atlanta street corner. His death certificate recorded that the brachial artery in his left arm had been severed. It gave his age as twenty. No one was charged with his murder. The certificate also noted that he was a musician; it was unusual at the time for a coroner to acknowledge such employment. It includes the following pieces featuring Mapp: Curley Weaver and Eddie Mapp, "No No Blues" and "It's the Best Stuff Yet" Eddie Mapp and Guy Lumpkin, "Decatur Street Drag" and "Riding the Blinds" Slim Barton, Eddie Mapp and James Moore, "I'm Hot Like That", "Careless Love", "Wicked Travelin' Blues", "It's Tight Like That" and "Poor Convict Blues" Eddie Mapp, James Moore and Guy Lumpkin, "Where You Been So Long" (1929) Slim Barton and Eddie Mapp, "Fourth Avenue Blues" (1929)