McKinney’s Cotton Pickers by Trav S.D.

A few lines here on drummer and bandleader Bill McKinney (1895–1969), motive force behind McKinney’s Cotton Pickers. Before you have a conniption about the name, know that this was by no stretch a white minstrel kind of thing, this was an all black jazz band, formed at a time when cotton cultivation still haunted post-slavery black […]

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