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Early years

Lewis first gained attention for being able to blow two harmonica at once.

Death

He died in poverty of gangrene brought on by frostbite in Ripley, Tennessee in 1961. Noah Lewis is buried in a cemetery near Nutbush, Tennessee.^[1] After his death, several of his songs become part of the repertoire of the Grateful Dead, including New, New Minglewood Blues, Viola Lee Blues, and Big Railroad Blues. A boy from an East Cipinang trash dump slum in Jakarta, Indonesia shows what he found. ... Gangrene is necrosis and subsequent decay of body tissues caused by infection or thrombosis or lack of blood flow. ... Frostbite (congelatio in medical terminology) is the medical condition whereby damage is caused to skin and other tissues due to extreme cold. ... Ripley is a city in Lauderdale County, Tennessee, United States. ... Grocery store in Nutbush Nutbush, Tennessee is an unincorporated rural community in western Tennessee that has been considered part of Brownsville, in Haywood County, and Ripley in Lauderdale County, United States. ... Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in San Francisco, California. ...

References

1. ^ A History of Tennessee Arts, University of Tennessee Press

Further reading

• West, Carroll Van & Duncan Binnicker, Margaret (2004). A History of Tennessee Arts. Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 1-57233-239-5. 
• Norris, Sharon (2000). Black America Series: Haywood County Tennessee. Mount Pleasant, SC: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-73850-605-2.