Willie Ruff: 1 book
A Call to Assembly
The Autobiography of a Musical Storyteller
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 1991
Music came to Willie ruff early in his Alabama boyhood. It came from Mrs. Nance, the solo bass drummer of the Sanctified church, whose beat "gave her right arm the churning motion of a set of steam locomotive wheels." It came from singing at the grocery store for candy, and from the "chitlin struts:...
