Sammy Lee Williams performing "Step Up a Little Bigger"

Sammy Lee Williams performing "Step Up a Little Bigger"

Music on the Southern Circuit returned to the grittier roots of the blues with eclectic new styles like boogie-woogie and rhythm & blues in the 1950s. African American popular musicians in the 1950s expressed a new, aggressive stance in keeping with the renewed struggle for civil rights after World War II. Rock ‘n’ Roll emerged from these new genres in the mid-fifties. Soul eclipsed Rock ‘n’ Roll on the Circuit in the mid-1960s. This 1982 recording of Florida native Sammy Lee Williams highlights the rough, aggressive sound common on the circuit in the early 1950s.

Florida Folklife Project

Devane, Dwight

http://floridamemory.com/audio/cd5.php

State Archives of Florida

May 30, 1982

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Audio/mp3

English

Sound

Pahokee, Florida