The fact that a Klansman and black person could sit down at the same table and enjoy the same music, that was a seed planted. He wanted me to call him and let him know anytime I was to return to this bar with this band. And now I'm wondering, why am I sitting by a Klansman?īut he was very friendly, it was the music that brought us together. I recognized the logo on there, the Klan symbol and I realized this was for real, this guy wasn't joking. As I was laughing, he pulled out his wallet, flipped through his credit cards and pictures and produced his Klan card and handed it to me. I just burst out laughing because I really did not believe him. On his reaction on hearing he was talking a member of the Klan I ain't ever heard no black man except for you play like that." So I'm thinking this guy has never heard Fats Domino or Little Richard and then he says, "You know, this is the first time I ever sat down and had a drink with a black man?" Black, blues, and boogie-woogie piano players." That's what that rockabilly, rock 'n roll style came from." He said, "Oh, no! Jerry Lee invented that. I was playing music - it was my first time playing in this particular bar called the Silver Dollar Lounge and this white gentleman approached me and he says, "I really enjoy you all's music." I thanked him, shook his hand and he says, "You know this is the first time I ever heard a black man play piano like Jerry Lee Lewis." I was kind of surprised that he did not know the origin of that kind of music and I said, "Well, where do you think Jerry Lee Lewis learned how to play that kind of style?" He's like, "Well, I don't know." I said, "He learned it from the same place I did. On the first time he befriended a member of the Ku Klux Klan
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