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John Dee Holeman was born in Hillsborough in 1929 and at six moved with his family to a farm in northern Orange County. As a teenager he played house parties, pig-pickings, corn shuckings, country dances and juke joints, learning guitar from his uncle and cousin and from Blind Boy Fuller's records. He moved to Durham in 1954.
Source: Open Orange: John Dee Holman
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… The headings cover blues music and musicians in Durham, among them John Dee Holeman and Richard Trice, African American life and customs in the city, documentary films in North Carolina, and stock car racing at the Orange County Speedway in Rougemont.
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