![]() ![]() ![]() He and guitarist Robert Lockwood auditioned for the executives of the Interstate Grocery Co, who agreed to sponsor the King Biscuit Time show. He got his big break in 1941 when he hustled his way into a radio show for the manager at KFFA radio station in Helena, Arkansas. It was after him that Mick Jagger and Keith Richards named their first band in 1961 – Little Boy Blue And The Blue Boys. ![]() Sonny Boy Williamson drifted around the Deep South using the name Little Boy Blue as he played at juke joints and house parties. Aleck was given the nickname Rice as a boy, supposedly due to his love for milk and rice, and growing up he was known as Rice Miller.Īs a teenager, he was often in trouble with the law. His real name is believed to be Aleck or Alex Ford, and he was the illegitimate son of Jim Miller and Millie Ford (he was Millie’s 21st child). The facts of his life are mired in mystery – his birthdates vary from 1894 to Decem– though it is clear that he was savagely treated while growing up on a plantation in Mississippi. ![]()
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