Tom's Place: A Juke Joint in Wilson, NC
“Shoe polish: the young girls won’t dance with an old man."
In 1987, after spending a couple years asking about blues players and juke joints in eastern North Carolina, someone took me Tom’s Place outside of Wilson.
Cotton field at sunset.
Back in the day, Tom’s had been part of the Chitlin Circuit. Tour busses would find their way back into the dusty fi…
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