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Willie Lofton

An obscure Delta blues player from Mississippi, Willie “Poor Son” Lofton falls loosely in to the Charley Patton/Tommy Johnson blues camp. His tone of voice was eerily just like Johnson’s, and his most stunning music was a edition of Johnson’s “Big Street Blues,” known as “Dark Street Blues,” which presented …

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