Blind Lemon Jefferson? Nick Cave wrote an amazingly creepy song about him, as well as a deal of poetry.

Yeah, like I said--I know I'm squee-harshing big-time, but MAN, that thing looks like a bale of crap. Whereas Blood Ties may have had its problems, but at least it wasn't twee. The twee part; I think that's the thing I hate most, in...almost anything, really.