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206:(1980) relating to Washboard Doc stated, "His first recording was with bluesman Ralph Willis about 1950. About two years later he cut with Sonny Terry for a Folkways LP, playing washboards and spoons". However his involvement, if true, was not credited on either album by Willis or Terry.
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