“I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.”
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It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn.
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We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands.
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My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues.
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We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out.
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