Blind Tom Wiggins - Posthumous Recognition

Posthumous Recognition

The people of Columbus, Georgia, raised a commemorative headstone for him in 1976. He was the subject of a play titled HUSH: Composing Blind Tom Wiggins, which was performed on the Atlanta stage with Del Hamilton as director.

Between 1970 and 2000, Dr. Geneva Handy Southall wrote a three-volume thesis titled Blind Tom: The Black Pianist Composer; Continuously Enslaved; it was published by Scarecrow Press in 2002.

In 1981 he was the subject of a film, "Blind Tom: The Story of Thomas Bethune" directed by Mark W. Travis.

In 1999 John Davis recorded an album of Tom's original compositions on a CD entitled John Davis Plays Blind Tom. The cd package included essays by Amiri Baraka, Ricky Jay and Oliver Sacks.

A full-length biography, The Ballad of Blind Tom, Slave Pianist, by Deirdre O'Connell, was published by Overlook Press in 2009.

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