The same year Bukka White had a hit with his 1937 song “Shake ‘Em On Down”, he was sentenced to the notorious Parchman Farm Penitentiary for shooting a man. Two years later, musicologist Alan Lomax found & recorded White there for the Library of Congress.

As young teenagers, jazz legend Cannonball Adderley, his brother Nat, and Ray Charles played music together when they all lived in Tallahassee.

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