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Jim O’Neal, Robert Pruter and Bob Eagle were tireless in turning up fresh information about Memphis Minnie. Jim discovered Minnie and Kansas Joe’s marriage license and a new photo of Minnie (and much more, as well), Bob Pruter sent us countless display advertisements from the Chicago Defender, and Bob Eagle passed along all of his newly discovered census data about Minnie’s early life. To them I owe my greatest thanks.

The generosity of other blues scholars and historians has been outstanding, and we thank Cliff Warnken, Felix Wohrstein, Guido van Rijn, Bob West/Arcola Records, Frank Scott of Roots & Rhythm Mail Order, Scott Dirks, Robert Ford, Chris Smith, Howard Rye, Melanie Keithley, and Scott Barretta for their kindness.

Revising the discography to account for all of the LP and CD reissues of Minnie’s records since 1992 was a bigger job than we realized, but once again, many friends were eager to lend a hand. Other workers passed along items of interest that contributed to the richness that will make this edition superior to the last one, and we’d like to thank each one of them: Byron Foulger, Catherine Yronrode, Helge Thygesen, Art Schuna, Gorgen Antonsson, Robert Ford, Howard Rye, Kate Lewis, Jonny Meister, Alan Balfour and Stefan Wirz.

We would be remiss if we didn’t mention the usefulness of several online lists for desseminating our requests for new information: the Prewar Blues List at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pre-war-blues/ and the facebook group, the Real Blues Forum. Thank you one and all.