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“Fixin’ to Die Blues”: The Last Months of Bukka White With an afterword from B.B. King on Bukka White’s Legacy

“Fixin’ to Die Blues”: The Last Months of Bukka White With an afterword from B.B. King on... i n t e r v i e W . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “Fixin’ to Die Blues” The Last Months of Bukka White With an afterword from B.B. King on Bukka White’s Legacy interviewed by David W. Johnson Booker T. Washington (“Bukka”) White shared a remarkable account of the actual life of a blues musician—not the romantic conception of that life that many in music, film, and the print media have portrayed before and since. Bukka White, before his show at the Chessmate Coffee House in Detroit in 1968, photographed by W. T. Helfrich. 15 faint odor of bedpan greeted me as I entered the room in the re- habilitation unit of Beverly Hospital in Beverly, Massachusetts. In bed lay the stocky g fi ure of Booker T. Washington White, clad in a white hospital smock. The upper half of the hospi-   A tal bed had been raised so that Bukka (as the Vocalion record label had dubbed him in 1937) could sit. His wide torso looked even wider in the smock—not the wiry sort of blues icon I had in mind http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

“Fixin’ to Die Blues”: The Last Months of Bukka White With an afterword from B.B. King on Bukka White’s Legacy

Johnson, David W.; White, Bukka.; King, B. B.
Southern Cultures , Volume 16 (3) – Aug 13, 2010
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i n t e r v i e W . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “Fixin’ to Die Blues” The Last Months of Bukka White With an afterword from B.B. King on Bukka White’s Legacy interviewed by David W. Johnson Booker T. Washington (“Bukka”) White shared a remarkable account of the actual life of a blues musician—not the romantic conception of that life that many in music, film, and the print media have portrayed before and since. Bukka White, before his show at the Chessmate Coffee House in Detroit in 1968, photographed by W. T. Helfrich. 15 faint odor of bedpan greeted me as I entered the room in the re- habilitation unit of Beverly Hospital in Beverly, Massachusetts. In bed lay the stocky g fi ure of Booker T. Washington White, clad in a white hospital smock. The upper half of the hospi-   A tal bed had been raised so that Bukka (as the Vocalion record label had dubbed him in 1937) could sit. His wide torso looked even wider in the smock—not the wiry sort of blues icon I had in mind

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Southern Cultures – University of North Carolina Press

Published: Aug 13, 2010

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