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UncategorizedNOV · 252011
Lee "Shot" Williams Dies

Henry Lee Williams, known to the Southern Soul and Blues Nation as Lee "Shot" Williams died on November 25, 2011, aged 73 in Chicago, Illionis from undisclosed causes. He grew up singing in local gosp...

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Juré was an older Creole tradition of call-and-response singing, clapping and stomping — rhythm and voice without instruments — that fed into early zydeco.

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