Complex sentence: His family moved to Marshall, Texas in the late 1920s, and at the age of 12 he learnt to play guitar from Texas blues musician Little Hat Jones and ran away from home to work as a musician.
Split into simpler sentences: His family moved to Marshall, Texas, in the late 1920s. At the age of 12 he learnt to play guitar from the blues musician Little Hat Jones and ran away from home to work as a musician.