The letter was addressed to: " Booker T.Washington White, (Old Blues Singer), C/O General Delivery Aberdeen , Miss." and forwarded to him by a relative. That was how John Fahey and Ed Denson of the "blues mafia" found Bukka White in 1963. For Bukka , it was a one of many turns in a truly remarkable life. Bukka first recorded in 1930. The Panama Limited was a featured part of Bukka's repetoire until his death and is is probably one of the best "train" songs ever recorded. His driving alternating bass evokes the engines and his slide creates the sound of airbrakes and trainwhistle. Bukka does an electrifying performance of this on the Vastapol Masters of The Country Blues Video, complete with a trick playing style more often associated with Jimi Hendrix than a Delta Bluesman. It wasn't until 1937 that Bukka got a shot at recording again, when he cut Shake em' On Down and Pinebluff Arkansas for ARC in Chicago. While Shake Em' On Down was a sucess, Bukka was doing time on Parchman Farm in Mississippi . While at Parchman in 1939, Alan Lomax recorded two tunes by Bukka for the Library of Congress; Sic 'Em Dogs On and Po' Boy (played with National across his lap on Masters of The Country Blues . In 1940 , he cut some more sides in Chicago accompanied by Washboard Sam. Shake em' On Down re-emerges as I Wonder How Long Before I Can Change My Clothes, and songs like Strange Place Blues,Parchman Farm Blues, High Fever Blues and Fixin' To Die Blues set a somber tone.  Until Fahey and Denson found him in 1963, it was assumed that Bukka was dead. If someone had checked, they would have known otherwise. In 1947 Bukka had given a young cousin, Riley King a Red Stella Guitar, Riley went on to known as The Beale St. Blues Boy, B.B. King. When Fahey and Denson did find Bukka, they immediately recorded him in his Memphis boardinghouse room and a few months later Bukka White was a recording artist with a new career playing the Coffee House/Folk Festival circuit. the recordings show that the fire was still there. Listen to New Orleans Streamline- a new train song, Poor Boy Long Way From Home or Parchman Farm Blues(actually I Wonder How Long Before I Can Change My Clothes)Bukka had been playing around Memphis with Frank Stokes and in his later stuff that influence comes through along with Bukka's desire to stay current (hence Big Bill's Baby Please Don't Go). Unlike many other Blues artist of his generation, Bukka's audiences got to see the real thing, not a shadow. He continued to record and play until his death in 1977.