Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1973, Blues, Folk Blues, New York City, NY
Matrix #: PB 119
Condition: EX, sounds great, looks great

Cultural Facts:

1. Legal Trouble: Repeatedly jailed for violent fights; did time at Angola (Louisiana State Penitentiary) and later in NYC.

2. Media Narrative: A 1949 University of Texas concert tape, issued posthumously in 1973 by Playboy Records—an odd home for folk-blues.

3. Personal Struggle: He developed ALS (“Lou Gehrig’s disease”) and died in 1949, months after this Austin performance.

3/10/2026 CC