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"I played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor and Carey Bells son Lurie Bell."
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"Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson."

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"My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion."

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"Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning."

"I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad."
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