Posted October 01, 2008 by Public Domain 4U
Madison Street Rag
by Gus Cannon
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Public Domain 4U says: Did you know that Gus Cannon taught himself to play using a banjo that he made from a frying pan and raccoon skin? At the age of fifteen as a runaway, he began his career at sawmills and levee and railroad camps in the Mississippi Delta around the turn of the century. Here's a little candid rag of his...
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