![]() Decades later, Walker agrees to an interview with Nick Travers, blues historian from Tulane University, but the interview comes with a demand that he check out what she calls the truth behind Lyons’s last hours. She became one of the greatest blues singers the city had ever known – only to lose it all after being convicted of murdering her lover and producer, Billy Lyons, in September 1959. More than forty years ago, she – like several million blacks during the Great Migration – boarded the Illinois Central from Mississippi to what she believed was the promised land. ![]() Seventy miles away – locked in a scarred prison cell – waits Ruby Walker, a woman who in every way is the South Side. Christmas Eve on the South Side of Chicago: a grey coldness envelops the crumbling housing projects and tattered neighbourhoods. ![]()
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