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Sometimes they'd put a rope down the middle of the dance hall to divide black and white kids. But to make yourself known you had to tour to be heard. We had to take Muhammad to the mountain.I had no choice as I am only good at being a guitarist.
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If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar. Where we lived we had no electricity, and of course all that I had heard was acoustic players.
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When I first heard how all you British guys loved what we were doing I was thrilled. While the Civil Rights movement was fighting for the respect of black people, I felt I was fighting for the respect of the blues.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Born:
September 16, 1925
Died:
May 14, 2015
(aged 89)
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