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Creation Date
1-18-2022
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Photo features seated men playing acoustic guitar (2), piano, and drums. Sonny Boy Williamson II holds a harmonica and stands at the microphone with the show's announcer. (L to R) Joe Willie Wilkins, Joe “Pine Top” Perkins, Sonny Boy Williamson, announcer Hugh Smith, James “Peck” Curtis, and Houston Stackhouse. Three large bags of King Biscuit flour and Sonny Boy meal sits on the floor at the base of the microphone, next to a sign for "King Biscuit Time". Sign on the wall reads, "Listen King Biscuit Time over KFFO Helena, WROX Clarksdale, Miss., 12 Monday thru Friday, King Biscuit flour, Sonny Boy meal". Photo is inscribed to Bill Donoghue by Hugh Smith, announcer of the King Biscuit Time radio show broadcast, and signed by Pine Top Perkins. "Ivey S. Gladdin '41" is in bottom right corner.
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