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Sonny Boy Williamson, born Aleck Ford on December 5, 1899, in Glendora, Mississippi, was an influential American blues singer and harmonica player during the emergence of electric blues. He is known for his famous compositions, including "Help Me," "Eyesight To The Blind," and "Don't Start Me Talkin'." To avoid confusion with an earlier blues musician of the same name, he adopted the name of his sharecropper stepfather, Jim Miller. His gravestone lists his birth date as March 11, 1908, and his death as June 23, 1965, in Tutwiler, Mississippi, adding to the mystique surrounding blues legends. At BMI, he is recognized as a songwriter/composer under the name WILLIAMSON WILLIE. He passed away on May 25, 1965, in Helena, Arkansas.

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