"My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues."

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"My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues."

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"They had the music being piped right out on the street. I'd be three or four blocks from there and I couldn't get there fast enough because I'd hear old Joe holler them words."

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"I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him."

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"We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out."

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"My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues."

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