Negro blues and hollers, 1940s
Summary
Sung by various musicians, principally with guitar accompaniment, including Son House, Willie Brown, Fiddlin' Joe Martin, Charley Berry, William Blackwell, William Brown, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Silent Grove Baptist Church congregation, Church of God in Christ congregation.
Recorded originally in Clarksdale, Lula, and Robinsonville, Mississippi and at Sadie Beck's Plantation, Arkansas, 1941-1942 by Alan Lomax, John W. Work, and Lewis Jones for a study jointly sponsored by the Library of Congress and Fisk University of Nashville, Tennessee.
Descriptive notes by the editor and texts (17 p.).
Description from audio disc recording, analog, 33 1/3 rpm; 12 in. first issued on LP in 1962.
Digital preservation master recorded from original master analog tape by the Library of Congress Recording Laboratory in 2015.
Original master for audio disc production for reissue of AFS L59: NEGRO BLUES AND HOLLERS (MASTER TAPE) 2 sound tape reels : analog, 15 ips, full track, mono. ; 10 in. RAA 27153, RAA 27154. MAVIS title no.: 162692-4; 162692-5-1; 162692-5-2
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