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What did W. C. Handy and ‘The New Cow of Greenwich Village’ have in common? Robert Clairmont
‘Father of the Blues’ William C. Handy (1873-1958) was introduced to a scruffy Greenwich Village poet named Robert Clairmont (1902-1971) in the spring of 1828. Handy had given a mutual friend, Abra…