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And we drove in a big old maroon Pontiac, I remember that ’cause he was a mechanic, and we came to L.A. And he and my mom and my older brother Eugene we left Cleveland, Mississippi, I think it was 1944, and came to Los Angeles, because he was looking for work, too, except he had a brother here who had a couple grocery stores, one in Bakersfield, and two in L.A. So, somewhere between the time he left, and I think he only came back to visit once, uh, he and my mom agreed to disagree and she hooked up with this guy, my stepfather, name of Augustus. Well, whatever happened, he began to sort of write to my mom less and less and things got kind of strange.
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“I was actually 11 -I’ll tell you what happened there: My biological father had left Mississippi I think in 1943 or maybe 1942 and gone to Tulsa, Oklahoma, to work in the aircraft industry, because Douglas Aircraft, the big bomber-maker, the B-29 and all that, those were made by Douglas Aircraft, and he was too old for the draft, but a lot of black people, men especially, were leaving the south going to work in the war industries, so he came to Tulsa, that leaves me and my mom and my brother there in Cleveland. I asked about religious affiliations: “We were all baptists.”Īge 7-9 - piano lessons in a group setting - lady teacher charges 25 cents per child Remember Miles had a tune called “Bluing.” įor years I expectantly interrogated Bobby about growing up in the epicenter of the blues, how there must have been bluesmen playing guitars on every street corner, the Delta was crawling with cats like Tommy Johnson, Willie Brown, Honeyboy Edwards, Son House, Johnny Shines, Skip James, Sonny Boy Williamson, Ishmon Bracey, hundreds of them in the 30s, before they all caught the train to Chicago, Howlin’ Wolf resided in Ruleville, the next town over from Cleveland, and Charlie Patton was stabbed by Bertha Lee in Cleveland the year before Bobby was born! Now, Bobby has always said that yes there were guitar players around but he mostly remembers the gospel quartets singing on the corners and at gatherings, which, if you study the ethnography is exactly correct, it’s just that my guitar-centric generation focused on guitarists out of the Delta like Robert Johnson and the Chatmons. And she’d boil all the clothing, the cotton underwear, and sheets, socks, in her pot, to clean them, and add bluing to the pot, I never could figure out how you could add something so blue and it would make the clothes white. She’d slaughter pigs, she knew the most humane way to kill them, she was known for that. She used to make soap, you know, collect the fat after cooking porkchops and mix that with lye in a great big black cast-iron pot in the backyard, and make soap. “She lived to 93 and died when I was about 5, she was born back in Civil War times, back during slavery.
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I am hoping that anyone with additional biographical information on Bobby Bradford will add to the Comments at bottom on page.īobby Lee Bradford born: Cleveland, Mississippi, in the heart of the Delta - BB spent his years in Cleveland at his family’s house at 313 Ruby Street (he was actually born in a house a few doors down from there) - his mother: Bernice Bradford nee Griffin (later she became Bernice Walker) - his father: Webb Eugene Bradford - Bobby spent these years with four generations of his family in the home, his mother’s mother Asalee Hemphill, (BB’s grandmother), and her mother, Emma Ambrose (born c.1846)(BB’s great-grandmother) lived with them: That not every recording session by Bobby Bradford has been listed simply because a complete sessionography can be found at the Tom Lord Discography. Bobby Bradford - ApLos Angeles - photo by Mark Weber BOBBY BRADFORD TIMELINE: work in progress