Andy Boy (born Anthony Boyd, November 10, 1904 – unknown) was an American Texas blues pianist and songwriter.
[1][2] Details of his life outside of his recording career are sketchy, including a complete lack of information relating to his death.
[3] He created some notoriety in the 1920s, when one newspaper reported that Andy Boy had been accused of having attempted to kill his wife.
[3] In the early 1940s he was reportedly in Kansas City,[1] and when his whereabouts were queried in 1960 by Paul Oliver, Buster Pickens told him that Andy Boy was still alive and residing in New York, but thereafter the trail ran dry.
Michael Hortig, an Austrian author, photographer and blues historian,[8] eventually uncovered his birth details as shown above.