Upstaging his age, 80-year-old Rufus Thomas works the Chicago Blues Festival. Singer, dancer, and comedian, he promoted the blues in the 1950s as a disc jockey on WDIA in Memphis, the first radio station dedicated to black music. His own biggest hit was the novelty song 'Walking the Dog.’
— From "Traveling the Blues Highway," April 1999, National Geographic magazine
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