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This, however, is a different Sonny Boy Williamson - after the "original" SBW was murdered in 1947, Aleck Ford, who was already nearly 50 and had been performing as "Rice Miller", took on the same name and began recording for Chess. He was about 57 when he had his first hits, and carried on playing till his death ten years later in 1965. This is one of his wittier numbers
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Sonny Boy's from my hometown of Jackson, Tennesse (also the hometown of Casey Jones, Carl Perkins, Gil Scott Heron, and that dude that wrote "Silence of the Lambs"). The first widely recognized bluesman of the day to play harmonica as a lead instrument, he released a handful of recordings between 1937 and his death in the late 40's. Sonny Boy lived the life he sang about, to the extent that his fast living ultimately caught up with him. One of his girlfriend's jealous gi... MORE
