If you want to hear it:
I saw the end of a PBS doc about this guy once. The larger idea was that “country” and “blues” were traditionally both “the music southern people make” but after the phonograph was invented, to sell records back then, labels had to segregate the artists. so now country=white and blues=black. Deford Bailey was notable because he was the only black member of the Grand Ole Opry. So, OK, tokenism; but the fact that it was acknowledged that he even belonged on stage was a minor miracle.
(Ferrari prototype 250LM, chassis number 5149)
I loathe the blue blob lurking in my field of vision.
(hold on to 0:44 for some awesome moustache-twirling)
Apparently Puerto Rican, and not a Texas Farm to Market, but close enough.
GENTLEMEN BEHOLD!
This one’s tough without resorting to an IBM 5162, but here we go…
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