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Washboard Willie

b. William Paden Hensley, 24 July 1909, Phoenix Town, Alabama, USA. Elevated in Georgia, where he started drumming at age six, Washboard Willie shifted to Detroit in 1945, and quickly became a fixture for the town’s blues picture, playing the pubs along with his Super Suds Of Tempo, and making …

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Washboard Willie

It wasn’t until William Hensley was 31 yrs . old that he made a decision to purchase a washboard and commence to create music onto it. He bought a hardwood and steel washboard, fastened a four-inch frying pan to 1 corner, place eight steel thimbles on his fingertips, tied the …

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