News that Josh White, Jr. passed on Dec. 28 at age 84 brought to mind his illustrious folk singing father, Josh White Sr., a path the younger White emulated to a relative degree of success. To match his father’s considerable legacy was a formidable task and even summarizing it here takes some time and energy.
The elder White, known variously as “Pinewood Tom” and “Tippy Barton,” was born Joshua Daniel White, on February 11, 1914, in Greenville, S.C. where he grew up in the Black section of the city. He was one of four children born to Rev. Dennis and Daisy Elizabeth White. His father told him he was named after Joshua in the Bible. He was still a tot when his mother began teaching him music and placing him in the church choir. After his father threw a white bill collector out of his house in 1921, Rev. White was beaten nearly to death. As a result of this incident, he was locked in a mental institution where he died nine years later.
Shortly after the encounter with the…
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