Sonny Boy Williamson II became famous as a blues harmonica player in 1941. He made his initial groundbreaking performance on the King Biscuit Time radio program. Williamson was born Alex Miller on the Sara Jones Plantation in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. The actual date of his birth is uncertain; he claimed to have been born in […]
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