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November 16, 2025

Blues composer William Christopher “W.C.” Handy, known as the “Father of the Blues,” was born in Florence, Alabama in 1873.

From The Bottom Up: Segment 11

With Jerome Young

Ali Sharif

POSTED: April 16, 2009, 2:18 pm

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