On the stairs of a 1911 Pittsburgh boarding house, a young tenant plays the song “Joe Turner’s Blues:” They tell me Joe Turner’s come and gone/They tell me Joe Turner’s come and gone(Oh, Lordy) /Got my man and gone… W. C. Handy described it as a “true folk song of the Negro.” Turner was known […]
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:08AM on May 15, 2026