“I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing.”
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That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.
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Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little small one, tell me to fill it up. I never did like the farm but I was out there with my grandmother, didn't want to get away from around her too far.
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I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.
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