Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.
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I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.
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I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?
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That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.
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