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Negros must stop the deluge of filth, which makers of records are marketing among them. The music of the 'Blues' is one thing, but whether good or bad, it is indefensible to put to it all the stench which ingenuity can drag out the under-world and camouflage with words of double meaning. Don't buy them! Don't go to people's houses who do buy them! Don't permit your race newspaper to bear that name and at the same time advertise flagrant immorality set to music. Do anything, do everything, filthy records must go. - Roy Wilkins, (attrib.) editorial in the December 31 1926 edition of the Kansas City Call, probably written by the man who ironically went on to head up the NAACP
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0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic. He was formative in my blues education. Not through the stuff most people know him for, but because at around the time I started to develop an interest, he was featuring in various articles in guitar magazines in relation to his "Robert Johnson Songbook" CD, and the story of him having picked up a guitar for the first time after many years of mental illness, because he was inspired to play some RJ. I think his versions (which are not necessarily the best) were the ones I first heard of many RJ tunes.
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