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Photographer: Sandra Hughes
Taken: January 17, 2012
Caption: The Blues Trail: Mississippi to Helena Marker
Additional Description: A Selection of 1950s photos from Helena photographer and bandleader Rogerline Johnson: right dancers at Kale's Nightspot on Walnut Street, above, Mexican and African-American customers mingle at Magnolia's Place on Missouri St. This 1944 KFFA photo shows Sonny Boy Williamson at the microphone and guitarists Joe Willie Wilkins and Houston Stackhouse sitting beside their amplifiers in the same five-piece ensemble format that Muddy Waters later adopted. All the musicians in this photo, including pianists Pinetop Perkins, and drummer James "Peck" Curtis, came to Helena from Mississippi.
Submitted: January 23, 2012, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA.
Database Locator Identification Number: p190211
File Size: 0.621 Megabytes

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