Bull City Red (born George Washington, February 19, 1917 – October 1958)[1] was an American Piedmont blues guitarist, singer, and predominantly washboard player, most closely associated with Blind Boy Fuller and the Reverend Gary Davis.
A partial albino, he was sometimes alternatively billed as Oh Red,[2] also the name of a popular song written by Joe McCoy and first recorded in 1936 by the Harlem Hamfats.
[4] Red was a street musician in Durham before becoming the sole sighted member of a band managed by the talent scout J.
[4][8] Red also recorded songs based on gospel music with Fuller, Terry, and Sonny Jones, under the name of Brother George and His Sanctified Singers.
In late 1940, he had introduced Brownie McGhee and his collaborator Jordan Webb to his manager, John Baxter Long, and also to Fuller and Terry.