Bill Gordon is one of the four muleskinners--along with Walter Brown, William S. Hart, and Joe Savage--that Alan Lomax interviews in the film about his experiences working as a laborer building the massive levee systems so prominent throughout Mississippi. See Lomax's book The Land Where the Blues Began, Chapter 5, pp. 235-55.
Full Name: Bill Gordon
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