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Sonny Boy Willamson

Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, The Faber Companion to 20th-Century Popular Music, 2001

Sonny Boy Williamson I, b. John Lee Williamson, 30 March 1914, Jackson, Tennessee, USA, d. 1 June 1948, Chicago, Illinois; Sonny Boy Williamson II, b. Aleck Ford (later Aleck/Alex 'Rice' Miller), 5 December 1899, Glendora, Mississippi, d. 25 May 1965, Helena, Arkansas

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