If he was like most old time delta blues players, he probably didn't know how to tune a guitar. He just started playing and tuned it to sound like that from then on.
I know it's just that there are not many people even my age anymore that have ever listened to delta blues. He only recorded like 30 songs in two years, so there are a lot of people who never even heard of him. They will tell you Crossroads Blues is an old Clapton song. The movie by that name...
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