Jimmy Reed, Emancipator of the South: An Oral History
Joe Nick Patoski, Blues Access, Summer 2000
IT BEGINS WITH the discovery of a black-and-white photograph dated 1961. The setting is Walker's Auditorium, a chitlin' circuit showcase for touring black musicians in Waco, Texas, the same city where a black man named Washington Jess had been lynched 45 years earlier.
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