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Cecil Barfield - Lucy Mae Blues

William Robertson recorded by George Mitchell in Plains, Georgia Cecil Barfield (a/k/a William Robertson) "Born in 1922, William Robertson was a farmer all his life until he had to retire because of a back injury. Robertson began playing blues when he was five years old on a cooking oil can he had rigged up with a neck and one string. 'Well, I left the cooking oil can off and put a wire upside of the house,' he said, 'and I played that with a bottleneck.' Robertson began playing guitar when he was 12, and 'started off ragging it, playing them rag pieces,' which were traditional to the Chattahoochee Valley" (George Mitchell, from In Celebration of a Legacy: The Traditional Arts of the Lower Chattahoochee Valley). In Jim Pettigrew's article on Georgia blues entitled "Can' Cha Hear Me Cryin' Ooo-hooo," Barfield states: "I was listenin' to Bo Miller and some o' them--they were the best around here then--and then I took up the guitar myself. I don't know how many I've worn out since then. There wasn't any radio around here then. We only had record players, you know, the kind that you fold up like a suitcase. It was a long time before there was any radio in these parts....Oh, I used to play a lot. I played for both whites and colored, dances, parties, just about any occasion. There was a few of us and we'd go around all over the country. People were always calling on us. They'd never let me alone...." http://southernspaces.org/2004/blues-... Photos: R. Frank, Vivian Maier