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LEVEE DAYS
& DELTA NIGHTS
[= ROOTS OF THE
BLUES]
Robert D. Morritt
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As a Teen, after working, I would
travel from Toronto to Buffalo, New York each Saturday.  My
first stop was always Herb Ross’s Record Bar on the East side. A goldmine of
old R&B and Blues records! I recall purchasing “Is There Something on
Your Mind” by Bobby Marchan and “Fannie Mae” by Buster Brown (both on the
FIRE label. Back in Toronto later I met Jimmy Reed and talked with him
between sets when I worked for the Toronto
Daily Star. I then moved to Britain. My career took me away from the
‘Blues’ for a few years. I returned to Canada six years later and took
vacations to the South. In Kentucky at a ‘Flea Market’, I bought a blues
gospel record by street singers Blind Willie Jackson and his brother ’of
“Telephone to Glory” on Broadway 5050,(Year 1929) worth $50+,The price was
only fifty cents from then on I was hooked and back into the music scene.
This book follows the growth of the blues from the Delta to Chicago and
beyond.
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