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Alan Lomax Recordings.
Seven discs containing blues, hollers, work songs, and love songs, some with hoe, axe, or guitar accompaniment, one with cornet, fiddle, and bass viol; performed by Roger (Burn Down) Garnett, Hollis (Fat Head) Washington, Ross (Po' Chance) Williams, Angie Byrd, and other black prisoners at the state penitentiary, Parchman, Mississippi, May 1939. (46 minutes; LWO 4872 reel 172)
Thank Alan Lomax who recorded & found from Son House to Muddy Waters and people that you never even heard of. The list is so long.
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