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Listen Now | Title | File Number | Subjects | Recording Date | Alt Title | Genres | Instruments | Cities | Counties | State | Setting | Editor Note | Technical Note | Online Resources | subject_hfilter | genre_hfilter | instrument_hfilter | county_hfilter | state_hfilter | setting_hfilter |
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Country Blues | 4769A1 | McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) | 8-30-1941 | blues | guitar, vocal | Stovall | Coahoma | Mississippi | Followed by interview with Alan Lomax about the song, Robert Johnson, Son House, his tunings, style, and musicianship. | muddy | blues | guitar vocal | coahoma | mississippi | ||||||
I Be's Troubled | 4769A2 | McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) | 8/30/1941 | blues | guitar, vocal | Stovall | Coahoma | Mississippi | Followed by interview with Alan Lomax about the song, Robert Johnson, Son House, his tunings, style, and musicianship. | muddy | blues | guitar vocal | coahoma | mississippi | ||||||
Country Blues (duplicate) | 4770A1 | McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) | 8-30-1941 | blues | guitar, vocal | Stovall | Coahoma | Mississippi | Duplicate (from preservation reel) of 4769A1. Followed by interview with Alan Lomax about the song, Robert Johnson, Son House, his tunings, style, and musicianship. | muddy | blues | guitar vocal | coahoma | mississippi | ||||||
I Be's Troubled (duplicate) | 4770A2 | McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) | 8/30/1941 | blues | guitar, vocal | Stovall | Coahoma | Mississippi | Duplicate (from preservation reel) of 4769A2. Followed by interview with John Work about the song’s composition and his repertoire playing for dances. | muddy | blues | guitar vocal | coahoma | mississippi | ||||||
Ramblin' Kid Blues (fragment) | 6628A1 | Henry (Son) Sims, Louis Ford, McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters), Percy Thomas | 7-24-1942 | blues | fiddle, guitar, mandolin, vocal | Stovall | Coahoma | Mississippi | Fragmentary machine/microphone test. | sims ford muddy percy | blues | fiddle guitar mandolin vocal | coahoma | mississippi | ||||||
Ramblin' Kid Blues (fragment) | 6628A6 | Henry (Son) Sims, Louis Ford, McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters), Percy Thomas | 7-24-1942 | blues | fiddle, guitar, mandolin, vocal | Stovall | Coahoma | Mississippi | sims ford muddy percy | blues | fiddle guitar mandolin vocal | coahoma | mississippi | |||||||
Rosalie | 6628A7 | Henry (Son) Sims, Louis Ford, McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters), Percy Thomas | 7-24-1942 | Rosa Lee | blues | fiddle, guitar, mandolin, vocal | Stovall | Coahoma | Mississippi | sims ford muddy percy | blues | fiddle guitar mandolin vocal | coahoma | mississippi | ||||||
Joe Turner Blues | 6628A8 | Henry (Son) Sims, Louis Ford, McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters), Percy Thomas | 7-24-1942 | blues | fiddle, guitar, mandolin, vocal | Stovall | Coahoma | Mississippi | With spoken interjections by the rest of the group. | sims ford muddy percy | blues | fiddle guitar mandolin vocal | coahoma | mississippi | ||||||
G on pitch pipe | 6628A9 | Alan Lomax | 7-24-1942 | N/A | pitch pipe | Stovall | Coahoma | Mississippi | lomax | n-a | pitch-pipe | coahoma | mississippi | |||||||
Pearlie May Blues | 6628B1 | Henry (Son) Sims, Louis Ford, McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters), Percy Thomas | 7-24-1942 | blues | fiddle, guitar, mandolin, vocal | Stovall | Coahoma | Mississippi | sims ford muddy percy | blues | fiddle guitar mandolin vocal | coahoma | mississippi | |||||||
Take A Walk With Me | 6628B2 | Henry (Son) Sims, McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) | 7-24-1942 | blues | guitar, vocal | Stovall | Coahoma | Mississippi | sims muddy | blues | guitar vocal | coahoma | mississippi | |||||||
Burr Clover Blues | 6628B3 | Henry (Son) Sims, McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) | 7-24-1942 | blues | guitar, vocal | Stovall | Coahoma | Mississippi | Discussion about composition follows. Morganfield says he wrote it in ’40. | sims muddy | blues | guitar vocal | coahoma | mississippi | ||||||
[Blank] | 6629A1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Stovall | Coahoma | Mississippi | n-a | n-a | n-a | coahoma | mississippi | ||||||||
[Blank] | 6629A2 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Stovall | Coahoma | Mississippi | n-a | n-a | n-a | coahoma | mississippi | ||||||||
Cornfield holler (#2) | 6629B4 | Charles Berry | 7-24-1942 | holler | vocal | Stovall | Coahoma | Mississippi | Followed by discussion about song, which he learned from his brother. End is compromised by disc noise. | berry | holler | vocal | coahoma | mississippi | ||||||
Joe Turner Blues (false start) | 6629B5 | Louis Ford, Son Sims | 7-24-1942 | blues | guitar, mandolin, vocal | Stovall | Coahoma | Mississippi | ford sonsims | blues | guitar mandolin vocal | coahoma | mississippi | |||||||
Joe Turner Blues | 6629B6 | Louis Ford, Son Sims | 7-24-1942 | blues | guitar, mandolin, vocal | Stovall | Coahoma | Mississippi | ford sonsims | blues | guitar mandolin vocal | coahoma | mississippi |