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#1: Composite image of early photo of Sonny Payne and still frame from Pryor Center video interview
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#2: Sonny Payne as a young boy on a pony
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#3: Sonny Payne as a young boy (right) with his brother, Troy (left), and his dog, Ponte
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#4: Daisy Swope, grandmother of Sonny Payne (right) with her son, Raymond (left), and daughter, Gladys (center), mother of Sonny Payne
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#5: King Biscuit Entertainers: Sonny Boy Williamson, Sam Carr, Frank Frost
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#6: King Biscuit Entertainers: Sonny Boy Williamson, Frank Frost, Sam Carr
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#7: King Biscuit Entertainers: Robert Nighthawk, Houston Stackhouse Sr., James Peck Curtis
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#8: King Biscuit Entertainers on tour; J. M. Countiss Jr. Store; Modoc, Arkansas
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#9: Photo of DJ "Sunshine" Sonny Payne at the turntables; on display at the Delta Cultural Center
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#10: Sonny Payne receiving an award with his wife, Josephine (seated), and Jim Howe in background
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#11: Sonny Payne
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#12: Photo of DJ "Sunshine" Sonny Payne at the control board; on display at the Delta Cultural Center
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#13: Sonny Payne
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#14: Josephine, wife of Sonny Payne
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#15: Sonny Payne with Jim Howe presenting an award to Robert Lockwood Jr. at the 1986 King Biscuit Blues Festival
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#16: Sonny Payne at a KFFA remote broadcast
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#17: Sonny Payne with Robert Lockwood Jr. at the 1991 Chicago Blues Festival
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#18: Sonny Payne with his wife, Josephine, receiving the Arkansas Broadcasters Association Award in 1993
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#19: Sonny Payne playing upright bass
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#20: Sonny Payne broadcasting from the Delta Cultural Center Depot, September 23, 1996
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#21: Sonny Payne with Robert Lockwood Jr. and Pinetop Perkins
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#22: King Biscuit Time 13,000 shows cake
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#23: Sonny Payne with (left to right) Robert Lockwood Jr., Jeanne Webster, and James Morgan, 2002
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#24: Sonny Payne broadcasting from the KFFA studio in the Delta Cultural Center, 2002
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#25: Sonny Payne and Governor Mike Huckabee
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#26: Sonny Payne and Louis Smith broadcasting at the Christmas Parade, 2000
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#27: Mike Huckabee presents street sign to Sonny Payne
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#28: Sonny Payne at the control board in the KFFA studio
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#29: Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe and Sonny Payne
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#30: Sonny Payne at the KFFA studio, 2009
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#31: "Sunshine" Sonny Payne in the KFFA studio; Delta Cultural Center; Helena-West Helena, Arkansas, 2011
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#32: "Sunshine" Sonny Payne in the KFFA studio; Delta Cultural Center; Helena-West Helena, Arkansas, 2011
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#33: "Sunshine" Sonny Payne in the KFFA studio; Delta Cultural Center; Helena-West Helena, Arkansas, 2011
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#34: "Sunshine" Sonny Payne in the KFFA studio; Delta Cultural Center; Helena-West Helena, Arkansas, 2011
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#35: "Sunshine" Sonny Payne in the KFFA studio; Delta Cultural Center; Helena-West Helena, Arkansas, 2011
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#36: "Sunshine" Sonny Payne in the KFFA studio; Delta Cultural Center; Helena-West Helena, Arkansas, 2011
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#37: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Sonny Payne at the Delta Cultural Center; Helena-West Helena, Arkansas, 2011
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#38: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Sonny Payne at the Delta Cultural Center; Helena-West Helena, Arkansas, 2011
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