"Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming... So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete song and set it to music and the whole bit. From then on, I was busy with it."
"I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place."
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Source: William John Bennett (1994). “The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children”, p.211, Simon and Schuster
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