Herman E. Johnson of Scotlandville, Louisiana, summed up in eloquent words what had been the formative roots of most gifted blues singers:
"I had a good religious mother, a good religious father; they both was members of the Baptist Church. I have one brother an' one sister, an' they is members of the Baptist Church, an' apparently I was the on`iest jack (maverick) of the family. I don't belong to any church.
So my life was just that way, to keep out of trouble, drink my little whiskey, an' go an' do little ugly things like that, but just in a cue-tee (quiet) way. An' in 19 an' 27 I taken up the habit of playin' the guitar, an' I imagine it must have been the good Lord give me the talent to compose things."
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