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Bo Dollis Jr., Big Chief of the Wild Magnolias Black Masking Indians, photo by Noé Cugny

His Name is Bo, Two: A conversation with Bo Dollis Jr.

August 25, 2021 by: John Swenson

My Name Is Bo is an audacious arrival statement from Gerard “Bo Jr.” Dollis, Big Chief of the Wild Magnolias and the son of the legendary Bo Dollis. The elder Dollis literally brought Mardi Gras Indian music into the recording industry in 1970 with his single “Handa Wanda,” the first Mardi Gras Indian song not about the history or ritual of what had been up until then an essentially secret society. Subsequent Wild M...

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