Henry Oden~BLUES

Henry Oden grew up in Richmond, California. Born the eighth day of February 1947 to parents who migrated from rural Alabama and Arkansas to work in the Kaiser Shipyards of Richmond, Henry's father would order him his 1st guitar from a Montgomery Ward mail order catalogue. Robert Kelton, a neighbor and former Jimmy McCraklin guitarist, would give Henry his 1st guitar lesson. Within one year of his 1st lesson, and not yet legally old enough to enter night clubs, Henry would be found at Sunday jam sessions in and around Richmond.