My question about schooling was in the paragraph about the Willie/William thing, not about the WB/KB thing. Nothing personal here.
I recommended earlier that you could take your theory over to the Real Blues Forum on Facebook. Have you done so? I believe David Evans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Evans_(musicologist) is a regular poster there. I remember I saw posts by him when the silent footage very likely of Henry Thomas playing guitar and quills, in a German documentary, surfaced and was posted on RBF, within the last year or so. David is probably the biggest and most qualified proponent of the WB=KB theory and would certainly have knowledge of pretty much any corroborating evidence available. I think discussions about this may have occurred on RBF some years ago, but I have never had much success searching/navigating the archive there. Good luck.
I was just about to mention our Tag Index and noticed that someone has already attached the Kid Bailey Tag. They are at the bottom of every Topic page. If you click the tag you will see a list of topics and the one titled Who Was Kid Bailey is the one you want to read. Our beloved Bunker Hill (well known researcher and writer Alan Balfour) posted quite a bit of info from David Evans and information from others is posted as well. There are some excepts from the Calt/Wardlow book supporting the theory, but not the excerpt I seem to remember in which a woman who was interviewed stated that Willie once told her he had spent the day backing Kid Bailey for a recording session, but it was a long time ago that I read that, so, grain of salt.
I'm looking forward to the new version of the book. too.
Wax
I recommended earlier that you could take your theory over to the Real Blues Forum on Facebook. Have you done so? I believe David Evans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Evans_(musicologist) is a regular poster there. I remember I saw posts by him when the silent footage very likely of Henry Thomas playing guitar and quills, in a German documentary, surfaced and was posted on RBF, within the last year or so. David is probably the biggest and most qualified proponent of the WB=KB theory and would certainly have knowledge of pretty much any corroborating evidence available. I think discussions about this may have occurred on RBF some years ago, but I have never had much success searching/navigating the archive there. Good luck.
I was just about to mention our Tag Index and noticed that someone has already attached the Kid Bailey Tag. They are at the bottom of every Topic page. If you click the tag you will see a list of topics and the one titled Who Was Kid Bailey is the one you want to read. Our beloved Bunker Hill (well known researcher and writer Alan Balfour) posted quite a bit of info from David Evans and information from others is posted as well. There are some excepts from the Calt/Wardlow book supporting the theory, but not the excerpt I seem to remember in which a woman who was interviewed stated that Willie once told her he had spent the day backing Kid Bailey for a recording session, but it was a long time ago that I read that, so, grain of salt.
I'm looking forward to the new version of the book. too.
Wax