# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-hutchison
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:20:45.856Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-hutchison"
name: "Frank Hutchison"
slug: "frank-hutchison"
description: "Frank Hutchison was an American early country blues and Piedmont blues musician and songwriter. Okeh Records promotional materials referred to him as “The Pride of West Virginia,” and he is thought to be the first non-African American musician to record in the country blues idiom. Hutchison was best known as a slide guitar player, where he held the guitar in his lap and used a pen knife as a slide."
tagline: "American early country blues and Piedmont blues musician (1897–1945)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/FrankHutchison.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1897-03-20"
deathDate: "1945-11-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.59
  momentum:             12.63157894736842
  historical:           6.139561333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/908715"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "فرانك هاتشيسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "فرانك هاتشيسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Hutchison"
    title: "Frank Hutchison"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Hutchison"
    title: "Frank Hutchison"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Hutchison"
    title: "Frank Hutchison"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ad9bd7e7-6fe9-441f-918b-322a8616c952"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1443475"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump