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Eddie Burks

Chicago bluesman Eddie Burks was created Sept 17, 1931, on the plantation outdoors Greenwood, MS — the 14th and youngest child of sharecroppers, his childhood was marked by tragedy, especially his brother’s lynching as a result of the Ku Klux Klan. Burks uncovered the music of Robert Johnson and Sonny …

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