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Dec 22, 2023Liked by David Katznelson

of course you have taken your kids to Clarksdale! Great post. Thank you.

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Mississippi is the best place to get-on-down with the fam!

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You are inspiring travel ideas

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Dec 21, 2023Liked by David Katznelson

Yes - it's what LeDell told David Evans. I'll go see if he was conveying what TJ said or if it was a general statement. LeDell had earlier been a blues artist.

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Dec 21, 2023Liked by David Katznelson

The Tommy Johnson story was actually told to David Evans in the 1960s by Tommy Johnson's brother LeDell, who became a preacher. Tommy died in the '50s, and no one ever interviewed him.

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Is that quote from his brother?

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Dec 21, 2023Liked by David Katznelson

He's a little piece of leather, don't you know (re The devil, Peetie Wheatstraw, The Beatles and...wait for it...San Francisco's own Stella Brooks...find her on Folkways....god bless)

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good one

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