[1] Dallas teamed up with Frank Edwards and Georgia Slim for a while, and he also played solo on the streets of Chicago.
[4] In his itinerant early years, he formed a small band with James McMillan, who taught Dallas to play the guitar, and they performed in juke joints around the Mississippi Delta.
[2] Dallas settled in Brooklyn, New York, in 1943,[4][5] where he worked as a food server, stevedore, truck driver, and porter.
[2] AllMusic noted that Dallas exhibited "little sign of urbanization (indeed his springy guitar rhythms positively countrify 'Jump Little Children, Jump'...)".
The American indie rock band Jump, Little Children, took its name from the Dallas song, which in itself was covered by Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee.