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.

The Beatles’ famous 1969 song “Come Together” borrowed heavily from Chuck Berry’s 1956 “You Can’t Catch Me”, including the famed line “Here come ol’ flattop”.

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