
Wilson Daily Times, 2 September 1943.
South Carolina-born Buddy Johnson was a jump blues pianist whose orchestra began touring the South in the early 1940s. Reid Street Community Center was a popular venue on the chitlin circuit.
Wilson Daily Times, 2 September 1943.
South Carolina-born Buddy Johnson was a jump blues pianist whose orchestra began touring the South in the early 1940s. Reid Street Community Center was a popular venue on the chitlin circuit.
Wilson Daily Times, 10 August 1927.
This ad possibly memorializes a performance at Sam Vick‘s Globe Theatre by Clayton “Peg Leg” Bates at the very beginning of his career. (The “real” Peg Leg was from Fountain Inn, South Carolina, though.)