Before we go, here's your random trivia of the day:
Today marks the 106th birthday of Tennessee-born John Lee Curtis Williamson - better known as "Sonny Boy" Williamson - one of America's blues harmonica greats.
Interestingly, America has two blues harmonica greats with that same name: Tennessee's Sonny Boy Williamson and Mississippi's Sonny Boy Williamson, though the two men are of no relation.
In what would now be considered identity theft, Mississippi's "Sonny Boy" was born Aleck Ford and took the name of the already distinguished blues player in the early 1940s. His burgeoning music career skyrocketed, and Sonny Boy Williamson II - as he came to be called - went on to inspire many modern legends, from Eric Clapton to The Rolling Stones.
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