In the fourth programme on blues pianists, Francis Wilford-Smith looks at the work of Roosevelt Sykes from Arkansas. Sykes became an unusual and highly individual pianist and by 1930 was recording for several companies under different names.
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In the fourth programme on blues pianists, Francis Wilford-Smith looks at the work of Roosevelt Sykes from Arkansas. Sykes became an unusual and highly individual pianist and by 1930 was recording for several companies under different names.
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