Scott Dunbar: born 1904, son of an ex-slave, on Deer Park between the
Mississippi and Lake Mary (an eleven mile cut-off arm of the River) west
of Woodville and south of Natchez, Mississippi. He made a guitar out of
a “cigar box and a broomstick and some stream wire” when he was eight
and played it like a violin. When he was ten he got a real guitar and
began teaching himself to play. “My father died,” he says, “and then my
mother moved to Natchez, and she died. I came on this side of the Lake
and I been livin’ on this side ever since. Old Lee Baker, he played
fiddle, and he came over and said, “C’mere boy, I want to hear you play
that guitar,” and he brought me over to this side to play with his band
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