juke houses competed with the church for the community’s dollars

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“Sonny Boy would get too advanced. This white woman in Little Rock, she like him, and he was in her house taking it easy. He has his shoes off, and a white man came by. Sonny Boy, he left there running. Me and Elmo was going back home in my old car and we ain’t seen Sonny Boy. Elmo was saving, ‘Where’s Sonny Boy?’ And I was saying, ‘I don’t know.’ My radiator was leaking and stopped by a ditch to get a little water. Sonny Bov calls, ‘Motherfucker, open the trunk and let me get in!’ He was hiding in the ditch there.”