Arthur Jackson, known as Peg Leg Sam (December 28, 1911 – October 27, 1977)[1][2] was an American country blues harmonicist, singer and comedian.
He shined shoes, worked as a houseboy, cooked on ships, hoboed, and then made a living busking on street corners.
He lost his leg in 1930,[4] trying to hop a train but made a peg out of a fencepost, bound it to his stub with a leather belt, and kept moving.
Peg Leg Sam gave his last medicine-show performance in 1972 in North Carolina but continued to appear at music festivals in his final years.
[2] In 1973, his childhood friend, Henry "Rufe" Johnson, supplied both guitar and vocals, as did Baby Tate, to a couple of tracks on Peg Leg Sam's album, Medicine Show Man.