Danny Barker Smithsonian Interview Block 357 (Q13923)

Oh, yeah. My uncle . . . The Depression set in 1929. The Depression set, and there was no work here. People don't have no [? (inaudible)] ain't no work. So he wrote down here. He's my godfather, and he's interested in me, because he know I had ambition. He said, "Why don't you come up to New York? " I said, "New York? I heard of going to Chicago. I don't heard nobody leaving here going to New ...