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**harriettvanders** · 05-24-2007, 06:09 AM

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Here's something maybe you know, maybe you don't.

In the 1940's, talent scouts were down south looking for Robert Johnson, who had been dead.. a few years. No one knows for sure when or how.
These talent scouts came across Muddy Waters and recorded The Plantation Recordings. Muddy sitting on the front porch.
They took him to Chicago where he, and Big Bill Broonzy, became known as the Father of Chicago Blues. It's a good story... too bad it's false

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Alan Lomax, of the Library of Congress, was down South to record blues musicians... including Muddy Waters. After Waters, after Down on Stovall's Plantation went to Chicago to become professional musician.

05-24-2007, 06:09 AM	#6
harriettvanders Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 458 Senior Member	Originally posted by SlowwHand Here's something maybe you know, maybe you don't. In the 1940's, talent scouts were down south looking for Robert Johnson, who had been dead.. a few years. No one knows for sure when or how. These talent scouts came across Muddy Waters and recorded The Plantation Recordings. Muddy sitting on the front porch. They took him to Chicago where he, and Big Bill Broonzy, became known as the Father of Chicago Blues. It's a good story... too bad it's false . Alan Lomax, of the Library of Congress, was down South to record blues musicians... including Muddy Waters. After Waters, after Down on Stovall's Plantation went to Chicago to become professional musician.
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