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Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1973, Blues, Folk Blues, New York City, NYMatrix #: PB 119Condition: EX, sounds great, looks great Cultural Facts: Legal Trouble: Repeatedly jailed for v iolent fights; did time at Angola (Louisiana State Penitentiary) and later in NYC. Media Narrative: A 1949 University of Texas concert tape, issued posthumously in 1973 by Playboy Records—an odd home for folk-blues. Personal Struggle: He developed ALS (“Lou Gehrig’s disease”) and died in 1949, months after this Austin performance. 3/10/2026 CC Show more