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Order from the branch nearest you to s save time and money on freight. our free 3 catalog. WHOLESALE& MAIL ORI)ER DIVISION 3309 E. J W Carpenter Frwy, r Iving, Tex 75060 NAME ' ADDRESS I -- - CY/fSTATE ZIP "®'®"a" " By STEPHEN HERSH HE SAT comfortably on stage. A four foot board with one single string stretched across it was cradled across his lap. The act seemed simple and insignifi- cant compared to other mam- moth and grandiose shows but One String Sam still produced some of the best sounds to come out of this year's Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival. Since that time, partly as a result of some shrewd promotion on the part of Rainbow promoter John Sinclair, Sam has become somewhat of a local celebrity. He has played at the Primo Show- bar, The Blind Pig, and at Day- star's B.B. King concert. One String is pleased with his sudden fame, but he takes it all in stride. He spelt nearly sixty years playing the blues in bars and on the street, as 9 prelude to his recent tccess. "I've had is pretty rough," he says leaning forward in his seat and touching his close-cropped, hair, "I want people to know not everybody was born with a silver spoon in his mouth." Now that the silver spoon may be within his reach, Sam isn't grasp, ing for it. He won't let his career get out of hand. "When you get too much money, you start to worry too much about losing it." ONE STRING'S emergence as an Ann Arbor celebrity was as- sured when Festival promoter Sinclair fell in love with an al- bum he recorded about twenty years ago. "A friend of mine knew of a musician lamed One String who was playing in the street in Aikester, Michigan," says Sinclair. "One String Sam was the name he had recorded under, so I wasn't sure it was the same guy. But it turned out to be him. I brought him up for the festival, and he's been do- ing gigs around town since then." At the B.B. King : oncert, One String watched from backstage at the Radio King soul revue opened the show. "I like this mu- sic," he said. "I like all kinds of music. But most people, they play one kind of music and sing something different. What I play and what I sing is :he same thing." WHEN SAM PLAYS the blues, he beats the floor wien his foot, and plucks a rhytam on h i s string. His whole body starts twitching to the beat. He uses a Pan Am drinking glass instead of a bottleneck slide. He plays and sings in unison, of fen replac- ing words with slippery notes. At the end of his act, he lifts his slender arms in the air and bids the crowd farewell. One String Sam is still playing the music he learned at the age of nine. "My daddy built me a guitar with five strings when I was nine years old. I worked on that thing, and I knew it was not right for me. So I made myself one with just one string. "The first song I learned to play was one I learned in church, 'When the Saints Go Marchin' Home'. I played that for my dad- dy and momma and the preacher at my church. When they heard what I played, it put tears in their eyes, and my daddy ran up to me and picked m° up, in his arms. He, said, 'I got a boy done learned somethin'!'" One String began playing whiskey joints, beer joints, and honky-tonks in his native Missis- sippi before he turned 10. Work- ing with a man named Blind Lemon Jefferson ("I used to lead Blind Lemon around"), he play- ed all over the state for almost thirty years. In the process, One String became acquainted with Bessie Smith, Lightnin' Hopkins, PROFI LES ONE STRING SAM Playin' blues on a board and a string Ma Rainey, and Sonny Boy Wil- liamson. "I didn't work with those people, but when we'd be sittin' around talkin', I'd start playin'. They'd say, 'Man, you got somethin' there,' so I'd say 'Come on and follow me,' and we'd play around." WHEN STRING LEFT Missis- sippi, he moved to Beal Street in Memphis for a . few years. There he worked with T-Bone Walker, Leadbelly, and, again, Blind Lemon. From there: he headed for an army base in Ken- tucky, driving trucks and later cutting hair. After several years in Kentucky, String moved to Michigan. He resumed doing what he does to this day: playing in bars, -at his friends' houses, and on the corner when the weather is good. He's been di- vorced for twenty years, and has a son and a daughter. One String does several shows a week when he comes to Ann Arbor, but back at his home in Aikester his schedule is less full. "I don't play much at b a r s anymore because I don't have anybody to go with me. When I go out the door after playing, people know I have money. on me, so somebody could rob me or cut me with a knife. I know that can happen." Sam likes to fish, and to hunt rabbits and birds: "I used to hunt deer in Mississippi. At my daddy's farm, you could shoot a deer while standing in the back 'door. We had to run the deer out, because they ate the corn." One String Sam was shooting the shit with John Lee Hooker's wife at the Blues and Jazz festi- vals back a few weeks: "You get more blues out of that one string of yours, she said admir- ingly, "than my husband gets out of his guitar with six strings and a whole band behind him." Sam, for his part, isn't trying to outdo anyone: "I just sit on the stage and do my thing." I BAGELS FOR BRUNCH BUNCH 11:00 A.M.-SUN., NOV. 11 Undergrads, Grads and Faculty are invited for Lox-Bagel and Discussion. Speaker: PROF. MOSHE BRAUER Prof. Political Geography-Tel Aviv Univ. TOPIC: "THE POLITICAL EFFECTS OF THE YOM KIPPUR WAR" at H I LLEL-1429 Hill St. Trucking isn just for truck drivers. It's also for college graduates. The American trucking industry is a vast, complex, sophisticated trans- portation network. A network that moves almost anything you can think of. Almost ' anyplace you can think of. And to keep things running smoothly, it4 needs people. All kinds of people. 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