# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sammy-lawhorn
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:06:30.461Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sammy-lawhorn"
name: "Sammy Lawhorn"
slug: "sammy-lawhorn"
description: "Sammy David Lawhorn was an American Chicago blues guitarist, best known as a member of Muddy Waters's band. He also accompanied many other blues musicians, including Otis Spann, Willie Cobbs, Eddie Boyd, Roy Brown, Big Mama Thornton, John Lee Hooker, James Cotton and Junior Wells."
tagline: "American Chicago blues guitarist (1935-1990)"
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: "1935-07-12"
deathDate: "1990-04-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.6
  momentum:             16.6551724137931
  historical:           7.006084
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/386801"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%89_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86"
    title: "سامى لاواورن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammy_Lawhorn"
    title: "Sammy Lawhorn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammy_Lawhorn"
    title: "Sammy Lawhorn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammy_Lawhorn"
    title: "Sammy Lawhorn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%BE%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A1%D1%8D%D0%BC%D0%BC%D0%B8"
    title: "Лоугорн, Сэмми"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BC%D1%96_%D0%9B%D0%BE%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD"
    title: "Семмі Лоугорн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/84c2dcf4-b388-4b82-8b5c-f0830b3e5ab9"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2216522"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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