Nothing sad about the blues at West Boulevard Elementary with T.J. Wheeler

Wednesday, September 22, 2010 | 7:10 p.m. CDT; updated 10:35 p.m. CDT, Wednesday, September 22, 2010

COLUMBIA — Sound and energy bounced off the walls in the music trailer at West Boulevard Elementary School. Singing and playing his guitar or banjo, blues musician T.J. Wheeler led the children. But they were freestyling for sure — on egg shakers, washboards, tambourines and a single wash-bucket bass.

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