Henry "Mule" Townsend Interview
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content: McCormick, Mack
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content: Robert "Mack" McCormick Collection / Series 15: Audio Cassette Tapes and Digital Files
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content: 1 Cassette tape (Total Running Time: 33:44)
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content: 1972-07-30
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content: Box 165, Cassette OTC 1485.28
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Audio
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content: Cassette tapes
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content: Side A: Henry Jesse "Mule" Townsend interview, July 30, 1972
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Side A: Henry Jesse "Mule" Townsend interview, July 30, 1972
Interview with Henry Jesse "Mule" Townsend (October 27, 1909-September 24, 2006) American blues singer, guitarist, and pianist conducted by Dick Spottswood, at Wolf Trap, Vienna, Virginia. Townsend discusses meeting Robert Johnson on Jefferson Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri. Both musicians played house parties where Townsend would occasionally play with Johnson. Townsend also converses with Spottswood about Johnson's personality, the subjects of his songs, length of time they had contact, how people responded to his music, his style as compared to other musicians during his time, and the news of his death. 

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