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White, Bukka

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Personal name headingWhite, Bukka
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Variant(s)White, Washington
White, Booker T. Washington
White, Bucca
White, Washington "Barrel House"
Birth date1906-11-12
Death date1977-02-26
Place of birthHouston (Miss.)
Place of deathMemphis (Tenn.)
Field of activityBlues (Music)
Profession or occupationBlues musicians Singers Guitarists
Found inHis Mississippi blues. [Phonodisc] 1966.
His Mississippi blues [SR] c1980: labels (Bukka White) container (b. Houston, Miss., 11/12/06; recorded 1930 under name Washington White; d. 2/26/77)
Enc. of pop. mus., 3rd ed. (White, Bukka; b. Booker T. Washington White, Nov. 12, 1906, Houston, Miss., d. Feb. 26, 1977, Memphis, Tenn.)
Southern, E. Bio. dict. of Afro-Amer. and African musicians (White, Booker Washington ("Bukka"); b. Nov. 12, 1909, Houston, Miss., d. Feb. 26, 1977, Memphis, Tenn.; bluesman)
Harris, S. Blues ww, c1979 (White, Booker T. Washington; "Bucca"; "Bukka"; aka Washington White; b. Nov. 12, 1906, Houston (Chickawaw Co.), MS, d. Feb. 26, 1977, Memphis, TN)
Santelli, R. Big book of blues, 1993 (White, Bukka; b. Booker T. Washington White, Nov. 12, 1909, Houston, Miss., d. Feb. 26, 1977, Memphis, Tenn.; singer and slide guitarist)
John and Ruby Lomax 1939 southern states recording trip, 1939: field documentation, Archive of Folk Culture (Bukka White, Booker T. Washington White, Washington "Barrel House" White; recorded by Alan and Ruby Lomax in May1939 at Parchman State Penitentiary. Miss.)