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Thread #137186   Message #3136244
Posted By: GUEST,folk club exile
16-Apr-11 - 06:41 AM
Thread Name: barrelhouse joe shakespeare
Subject: barrelhouse joe shakespeare
Does anybody remember or know what happened to "Barrelhouse" Joe Shakespeare, an overweight, untidy but very good honky tonk piano player and blues singer with goatee beard that I saw several times in the 1970s around the folk clubs in London. I believe Bill Knox from the Nags Head at Battersea engaged him on occasions and I recall seeing him another time in a pub somewhere around Gloucester Rd. And what did become of Bill Knox, who tirelessly held together and MC'd the folk club at the Nags Head?