Eli Framer recorded only four titles, apparently, in Atlanta in 1929. Almost nothing is known about him in the biographical sense, but he is supposed to have been from Alabama. He accompanied himself out of E position in standard tuning for "Framer's Blues", and does a nifty job of it, with strong thumb-popped bass notes. From his singing, he sounds like he may have been an older man when he recorded. His recordings are terrific cut, and the extent to which he barely varies his accompaniment ends up giving the whole rendition a sort of "lost in time" quality and cumulative impact. That sense of sameness or repetition is strikingly broken when he goes long at the end of the opening line of his fifth verse of his "Framer's Blues". It's a great idea of him having his own blues named for him, and certainly all self-respecting blues collectors should all have such songs.
Here is "Framer's Blues": Eli Framer - Framer's Blues