Sippie Wallace

S = Sippie Wallace
DJ = WCBN DJ interviewing
J = Dr. John
S = Jim Standifer
L = Lady interviewer
U = Unidentified man

DJ You must be very excited about being.
W Yes I am.

DJ When was the last time you performed the Bonnie Ray? So you played with her off and on?
W The man he died__________ So I've been traveling all these years. _____With Bonnie Ray.

DJ I was telling you I heard Bonnie being interviewed on the Detroit station last week. I was surprised she said that she had been recording your songs a few years before she met you.
W Yes.

DJ What was it like when you' all finally met?
W Because she love me and I love her. Yes sir, I care so much for her __________like she was one of the family. Bonnie__________they were very close to me. __________he loved her. __________
S Hello, I'm Jim Standifer.

DJ I told Sippie that you traveled through Europe this summer.
W Oh yes. I went to __________. One time we were in London I think it was__________ Dr. John couldn't go with us and ____________they were very nice_______and we were there__________ in Switzerland.

DJ There's Dr. John over there.
U We didn't get to hook up this trip __________.

DJ So Sippie you had a long time what you made a lot of records earlier.
W Yes__________and then momma died__________When I got up I _______to church__________and the pastor__________ he let me go to London. The Lord was very good____________. The whole time I was in London I was at there six weeks. __________and Lance__________
S Winstan I believe
W I don't know. I use to always have my niece __________ So I never know nothing until __________because I still have things to do too____________
L So you still singing at the church and you have a choir at the church?
W I have two choirs at the church. A junior choir and a __________ and they _______so much

DJ Maria 's got a show in Detroit where the whole__________
L Yep. Someone looks like you.

DJ No that's not me.
W __________to go to a sanctified church _______they don't have those ____________and you get the piano and find the kid and go__________and__________you will too_____and I know when I was__________

DJ Gospel and Blues must come pretty easily.
W Same thing.

DJ It comes from the heart.
W It comes from the heart. And everybody says gospel is the same thing the only thing in gospel and blues is gospel and blues __________ there no difference.

DJ Two, three, and four year old girls ____________
W That little thing____________She can sing __________done me__________little poppa_______she try to do the splits and goes over_______I heard that she can__________
L She dances__________
W No No... She said______don't talk that way I said __________because she doesn't know__________and don't think that they don't remember. They remember everything.__________ She said so and so so and so__________

DJ All right you got another tune ready? If you_______I'd love to hear it. Maybe we'll take a break and go back to some more music at the studio and let you guys relax and __________. We'll send it back to the studio and here we go.
(Sippie Wallace singing with piano accompaniment)
J __________. I think I'm playing the chain a little different than from I remember on the tape but this is the closest I can get it for right now. You know they had me... but that's a classic there
W Yes.

DJ I'm here Michael and Sippie and Dr. John are ready to go. To hear another tune.
(Sippie Wallace singing with piano accompaniment)

DJ Dr. John and _____they will be performing ____the Great and ______tomorrow night at the Michigan Theater. Another tune or is that about it.
J That's about it from Dr.John and Sippie Wallace here WCBN FM in Ann Arbor.

DJ Thanks for coming down here it was wonderful.

END OF INTERVIEW