"It's a street in Memphis that W.C. Handy wrote about in his "Beale Street Blues." You know, If Beale Street could talk,/If Beale Street could talk,/Married men would have to take their beds and walk."
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1972 interview in Conversations with James Baldwin edited by Louis H. Pratt and Fred L. Standley (1989)
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W. C. Handy
William Christopher Handy (November 16, 1873 – March 28, 1958) was an African American blues composer, often known as "The Father of the Blues".
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