Charles Henry Tate, known as Baby Tate (January 28, 1916 – August 17, 1972)[2] was an American Piedmont blues guitarist, who in a sporadic career spanning five decades worked with the guitarists Blind Boy Fuller and Pink Anderson and the harmonica player Peg Leg Sam.
As the Carolina Blackbirds, they performed on radio station WFBC, broadcasting from the Jack Tar Hotel.
[1] With the harmonica player Peg Leg Sam or the guitarists Baby Brooks or McKinley Ellis, he recorded nearly sixty tracks in 1970 and 1971 for Peter B. Lowry, but the proposed album remained unreleased after Tate died unexpectedly in the summer of 1972.
Tate died of effects of a heart attack, in the Veterans Administration Hospital in Columbia, South Carolina, in August 1972, at the age of 56.
[7] His recording of the song is included on the compilation album Classic Appalachian Blues, released by Smithsonian Folkways in 2010.