"Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there."

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"Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there."

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"I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi."

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