J.W. Warren has been played on NTS in shows including Fat Possum Records, featured first on 30 July 2019. Songs played include Rabbit On A Log.

J.W. Warren was born in 1921 in Enterprise, AL. In a family of eleven children, he was the only one to take up music, starting at the age of fifteen or sixteen. He entered the military as a young adult and served for 14 years. After serving in the military, he started farming and begain to play barbeques at house parties in southeast Alabama.

“I came up the hard way. I never had a break whatsoever. In other words, I…