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Referred to as The Godfather of the King Biscuit Blues Festival, Payne broadcast the King Biscuit Time radio show on KFFA in Helena, Arkansas from its inception in 1951. Blues great B.B. King listened to Payne on his lunch break when he was picking cotton in the fields as a teenager. The show is generally regarded as the longest-running radio show in history.
Payne wasn’t one who would just play blues on a radio show. Over the years, he would come to know anyone and everyone who was important to the blues.
Referred to as The Godfather of the King Biscuit Blues Festival, Payne broadcast the King Biscuit Time radio show on KFFA in Helena, Arkansas from its inception in 1951. Blues great B.B. King listened to Payne on his lunch break when he was picking cotton in the fields as a teenager. The show is generally regarded as the longest-running radio show in history.
Payne wasn’t one who would just play blues on a radio show. Over the years, he would come to know anyone and everyone who was important to the blues.