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Blind John Davis (7 December 1913 ? 12 October 1985[1]) was an African American, blues, jazz and boogie woogie pianist and singer. He was born John Henry Davis in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, the son of John Wesley Davis, a sawmill worker and mother, Lillie, a former minstrel show dancer.[2] When John was three, his father moved the family to Chicago and ultimately found work in a speakeasy. Prohibition came along and John's father took advantage of the opportunities it created to make money. He opened a number of "good time" or "sporting" houses, where people secretly consumed bootleg spirits. His father made different home brews and supplemented his income so his family did not feel the setbacks others felt during the Depression.[2]