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| Listen Now | Title | File Number | Subjects | Recording Date | Alt Title | Genres | Instruments | Cities | State | Setting | Editor Note | Technical Note | Online Resources |
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| Stagolee | 6610B4 | David (Honeyboy) Edwards | 7-20-1942 | blues, dance tune, reel | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Mississippi | A song (and in a style) learned from his father. | |||||
| Stagolee | 6610B4 | David (Honeyboy) Edwards | 7-20-1942 | blues, dance tune, reel | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Mississippi | A song (and in a style) learned from his father. | |||||
| Just A Spoonful | 6610B5 | David (Honeyboy) Edwards | 7-20-1942 | blues, dance tune, reel | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Mississippi | A song (and in a style) learned from his father. | |||||
| Get Up In the Morning Soon (fragment) | 6631A6 | Asa Ware | 7-25-1942 | Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy | lyric song, reel | vocal | Clarksdale | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | ||||
| Get Up In the Morning Soon | 6631A7 | Asa Ware | 7-25-1942 | lyric song, reel | vocal | Clarksdale | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | |||||
| Casey Jones | 6631A8 | Asa Ware | 7-25-1942 | lyric song, reel | vocal | Clarksdale | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | |||||
| I'll Keep My Skillet Greasy If I Can / Old Dog Blue / Sally Goodin | 6654A1 | Will Starks | 8-9-1942 | Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy | lyric song, reel | vocal | Clarksdale | Mississippi | Followed by discussion of various songs, including “Old Dog Blue” and “Sally Goodin” of which he sings fragments. | ||||
| The Dummy Line | 6654A2 | Will Starks | 8-9-1942 | lyric song, reel | vocal | Clarksdale | Mississippi | Identified on AFS card simply as “The Dummy.” Lomax prompts him with extra verses. | |||||
| Didn't He Ramble | 6654A3 | Will Starks | 8-9-1942 | The Derby Ram; The Darby Ram | lyric song, reel | vocal | Clarksdale | Mississippi | |||||
| The Eighth of January | 6670A1 | Alan Lomax, Alec (Turpentine) Askew, Lucius Smith, Sid Hemphill, Will Head | 8-15-1942 | dance tune, reel | banjo, bass, drum, fiddle, guitar, vocal | Sledge | Mississippi | The Fives | Preceded by introduction by Alan Lomax. The setting given is that which Lomax announces; he later (in his “The Land Where the Blues Began” [1993]) referred to it as “The Funky Fives,” where a picnic was underway. His other reference in that book to “Po’ Whore’s Kingdom” remains unclear. | Corrected to +0.595 / 103.5% | |||
| Arkansas Traveler | 6671B1 | Alec (Turpentine) Askew, Lucius Smith, Sid Hemphill, Will Head | 8-15-1942 | dance tune, lyric song, reel | banjo, bass, drum, fiddle, guitar, vocal | Sledge | Mississippi | The Fives | Followed by solo demonstrations of each instruments’ part and their tunings . (Smith’s kazoo only comes in here.) | Corrected to +0.234 / 101.36% | |||
| Leather Britches | 6672B1 | Alec (Turpentine) Askew, Lucius Smith, Sid Hemphill, Will Head | 8-15-1942 | Leather Breeches | fiddle tune, reel | banjo, bass, drum, fiddle, guitar, vocal | Sledge | Mississippi | The Fives | ||||
| Rye Straw | 6672B2 | Alec (Turpentine) Askew, Lucius Smith, Sid Hemphill, Will Head | 8-15-1942 | fiddle tune, reel | banjo, bass, drum, fiddle, guitar, vocal | Sledge | Mississippi | The Fives | Identified on AFS card as “Rice Straw” (which is what Hemphill, at the end of the preceding band, might refer to it as). | ||||
| Old Blues | 6672B4 | Alec (Turpentine) Askew, Lucius Smith, Sid Hemphill, Will Head | 8-15-1942 | lyric song, reel | banjo, bass, drum, fiddle, guitar, kazoo, vocal | Sledge | Mississippi | The Fives | Identified on AFS card as “Old Blue,” but it is not a version of the song about the dog by that name. | Seriously marred by speed fluctuation. | |||
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| Jesse James | 6673A1 | Alec (Turpentine) Askew, Lucius Smith, Sid Hemphill, Will Head | 8-15-1942 | lyric song, reel | bass, drum, fife, snare drum, vocal | Sledge | Mississippi | The Fives | ||||
| John Henry | 6673A5 | Alec (Turpentine) Askew, Lucius Smith, Sid Hemphill, Will Head | 8-15-1942 | dance tune, lyric song, reel | banjo, bass, drum, fiddle, guitar, vocal | Sledge | Mississippi | The Fives | |||||
| Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy | 6673B1 | Alec (Turpentine) Askew, Lucius Smith, Sid Hemphill, Will Head | 8-15-1942 | dance tune, lyric song, reel | banjo, bass, drum, fiddle, guitar, vocal | Sledge | Mississippi | The Fives | |||||
| Soon In the Morning | 6673B3 | Lucius Smith, Sid Hemphill, Will Head | 8-15-1942 | lyric song, reel | banjo, bass, drum, fiddle, guitar, vocal | Sledge | Mississippi | The Fives |