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The Memphis Country Blues Festival

Miller Francis jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 23 June 1969

AN ARTICLE ON the Memphis Country Blues Festival in a local Memphis newspaper was headlined: "BLUES ARE REBORN IN COTTON-FIELD HEAT."

Total word count of piece: 2238

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