Podcasts History Mississippi Moments Podcast MS Moments 290 Tommie T-Bone Pruitt - Mobile Street Blues

MS Moments 290 Tommie T-Bone Pruitt - Mobile Street Blues

Published: Dec. 1, 2011, 9:44 p.m.

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Historic Mobile Street in downtown Hattiesburg was for many years the hottest strip for live music outside of Bourbon Street in New Orleans.\\xa0 It was on Mobile Street in 1947 a young guitarist named Tommie Pruitt began a career that has lasted 64 years and counting.

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Pruitt recalls learning to play on a homemade guitar and how his father earned money as a street musician.

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Taken from an interview provided by\\xa0the Mississippi Arts Commission's Folklife Archive.

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