![]() Willie Mae Thornton - Chicken and-anything! It really was really nice! Studs Terkel You know, that phrase that Big Mama Thornton used, Sunnyland Slim, that that soda cracker tastes like, that soda cracker tastes like cheese and crackers, So I've been singing ever since the early '40s. I didn't like dancing, so I told her, I said I want to sing. Of course, I was a chorus girl, I was dancing. Willie Mae Thornton Well, you know, I was born in Alabama and I started traveling when I was around 14-15 years old, singing with a show called the Sammy Green's Hot Harlem Revue out of Atlanta, Georgia, and - we traveled. ![]() Sometimes I didn't even have nothing to eat, even a soda cracker tasted like cheese and cake. Willie Mae Thornton Well, when you've been blue all your life you got to know what it's all about. The blues is a feeling that's expressed in a song and that's the blues. Willie Dixon Well, the blues is a feeling. So we're sitting around talking, we just heard Willie, "Walkin' the Bl" - well, I suppose the first question is, everybody asks: "What's the blues?" Now, I ask this of Willie Dixon, or of Willie Mae Thornton, or Sunnyland Slim. Studs Terkel So as we listen to Willie Dixon talking and playing, "Walkin' the Blues", his piece, he's one of the performers at this remarkable Blues Festival, the reach-out with him are two of his co-performers, co-stars: Big Mama Thornton, Willie Mae Thornton, probably the most powerful woman singer of the blues alive today, and Sunnyland Slim, who has been a remarkable blues man and friend, a blues artist many years in Chicago.
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