# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/furry-lewis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:14:31.136Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/furry-lewis"
name: "Furry Lewis"
slug: "furry-lewis"
description: "Walter E. \"Furry\" Lewis was an American country blues guitarist and songwriter from Memphis, Tennessee. He was one of the earliest of the blues musicians active in the 1920s to be brought out of retirement and given new opportunities to record during the folk blues revival of the 1960s."
tagline: "Blues guitarist and songwriter (1893–1981)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Furry_Lewis.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: "1893-03-06"
deathDate: "1981-09-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.22
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.98340933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0507200/"
    handle:    "nm0507200"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/596161"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "فورى ليويس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_Lewis"
    title: "Furry Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_Lewis"
    title: "Furry Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_Lewis"
    title: "Furry Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_Lewis"
    title: "Furry Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_Lewis"
    title: "Furry Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_Lewis"
    title: "Furry Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_Lewis"
    title: "Furry Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_Lewis"
    title: "Furry Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_Lewis"
    title: "Furry Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_Lewis"
    title: "Furry Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_Lewis"
    title: "Furry Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%8C%D1%8E%D0%B8%D1%81%2C_%D0%A4%D1%8C%D1%8E%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Льюис, Фьюрри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/56cc74c7-6a8c-42a4-87a1-59d6963b2c1f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1475124"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1559399"
    title: "Furry Lewis"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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