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He never recorded, but has had a great influence on blues and rock and roll. His earthy song, "Junker"s Blues", with its stories about needles and reefer and the Angola prison farm was recorded by Dupree in 1940. In 1949 Fats Domino reworked the song as "The Fat Manitoba", the first of his 35 Top 40 hits.
The melody was used by Professor Longhair for "Tipitina" and by Lloyd Price for "Lawdy Mission Clawdy." Willy DeVille recorded the song in 1990 on his Victory Mixture album.
