Overview
Character Name
Slow Drag
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Mature Adult
Role Size
Lead
Voice
Spoken
Time & Place
A Chicago recording studio during the sweltering summer of 1927, at the height of the Blues era
Analysis
The bass player in Ma Rainey’s band. He got his name by slow dancing for hours to win a contest. He is perhaps “the one most bored by life. He is deceptively intelligent, though [he]...appears to be slow. He is a rather large man with a wicked smile. Innate African rhythms
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