I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.
There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away.
I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again.
From then on in, me and Sonny started makin' records. My first records, Sonny was backin' me up. Sonny wasn't singin' natural at the time; he was singin' falsetto.
I met Sonny after (Blind Boy) Fuller died, and me and Sonny played in the streets like everybody else.
Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.
