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.Read more
Just after Bukka White recorded “Shake ‘Em On Down”, which became a fast hit, he was locked up in Mississippi’s notorious Parchman Farm Penitentiary, where he was reportedly a celebrity — the guards contributed funds to buy Bukka a guitar; the Governor came to see him.Read more
