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I'm So Glad I Got My Religion In Time | 4764A1 | Unidentified | 8-29/30-1941 | hymn, sacred song, spiritual | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | King and Anderson Plantation, Mount Ararat Missionary Baptist Church | Levels inconsistent; some drop-outs due to poor disc condition. | unidentified | hymn sacred-song spiritual | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | king ararat | ||||
| I'll Be Waiting Up There | 4764A2 | Unidentified | 8-29/30-1941 | hymn, sacred song, spiritual | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | King and Anderson Plantation, Mount Ararat Missionary Baptist Church | unidentified | hymn sacred-song spiritual | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | king ararat | ||||
Oh, Freedom! | 4764A3 | Unidentified | 8-29/30-1941 | hymn, sacred song, spiritual | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | King and Anderson Plantation, Mount Ararat Missionary Baptist Church | unidentified | hymn sacred-song spiritual | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | king ararat | |||||
Oh, Freedom! | 4764A3 | Unidentified | 8-29/30-1941 | hymn, sacred song, spiritual | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | King and Anderson Plantation, Mount Ararat Missionary Baptist Church | unidentified | hymn sacred-song spiritual | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | king ararat | |||||
Daniel | 4764A4 | Unidentified | 8-29/30-1941 | hymn, sacred song, spiritual | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | King and Anderson Plantation, Mount Ararat Missionary Baptist Church | Levels inconsistent; some drop-outs due to poor disc condition. | unidentified | hymn sacred-song spiritual | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | king ararat | ||||
Announcements and collection | 4764B | Unidentified | 8-29/30 1941 | hymn, religious speech, sacred song, spiritual | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | King and Anderson Plantation, Mount Ararat Missionary Baptist Church | Disc starts with the singing of “I’m So Glad (I Done Got Over).” Upcoming events and collections are announced, including an announcement of Mrs. Lomax’s donation of $2, with applause following. | unidentified | hymn religious-speech sacred-song spiritual | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | king ararat | ||||
Rock, Daniel (#1) | 4765A1 | Annie Anderson, Caroline Joiner, Charlie Drakes, Fannie Jackson, Henry Joiner, Hester Jones, James Clark, Joycie Stith, Louise Smith, Rev. C.H Savage, Tom Jones | 8-29/30-1941 | hymn, sacred song, spiritual | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | King and Anderson Plantation, Mount Ararat Missionary Baptist Church | Rev. Savage dedicates the performance to Rev. Dr. Lowell [?], pastor of the church. Followed by discussion between Lomax and Rev. Savage about song’s context and meaning. Rev. Savage says he learned the song from his grandmother, who sang it in slavery-times. (Lomax erroneously identifies Savage as Henry Joiner in his notebook.) | anniea joinerc drakes fannie joinerh hester clarkj stith smithl revsavage tomjones | hymn sacred-song spiritual | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | king ararat | ||||
Hallelu, Hallelu | 4765A2 | Annie Anderson, Henry Joiner | 8-29/30-1941 | sacred song, shout, spiritual | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | King and Anderson Plantation, Mount Ararat Missionary Baptist Church | Followed by Lomax interview with Annie Anderson, one of the songleaders, about song’s context and meaning and “getting happy” at meetings. Rev. Savage discusses the theological relevance of the sun and stars to conversation. | anniea joinerh | sacred-song shout spiritual | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | king ararat | ||||
Testimony on conversion experience | 4765B1 | Henry Joiner | 8-29/30-1941 | religious speech | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | King and Anderson Plantation, Mount Ararat Missionary Baptist Church | joinerh | religious-speech | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | king ararat | |||||
This Is My Burying Ground | 4765B2 | Annie Anderson, Caroline Joiner, Charlie Drakes, Fannie Jackson, Henry Joiner, Hester Jones, James Clark, Joycie Stith, Louise Smith, Rev. C.H Savage, Tom Jones | 8-29/30-1941 | sacred song, shout, spiritual | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | King and Anderson Plantation, Mount Ararat Missionary Baptist Church | anniea joinerc drakes fannie joinerh hester clarkj stith smithl revsavage tomjones | sacred-song shout spiritual | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | king ararat | |||||
Let Me Ride | 4765B3 | Annie Anderson, Caroline Joiner, Charlie Drakes, Fannie Jackson, Henry Joiner, Hester Jones, James Clark, Joycie Stith, Louise Smith, Rev. C.H Savage, Tom Jones | 8-29/30-1941 | hymn, sacred song, spiritual | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | King and Anderson Plantation, Mount Ararat Missionary Baptist Church | Rev. Savage introduces himself (he’s visiting from Hollandale, Mississippi.) | anniea joinerc drakes fannie joinerh hester clarkj stith smithl revsavage tomjones | hymn sacred-song spiritual | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | king ararat | ||||
Samson | 4766A1 | Annie Anderson, Caroline Joiner, Charlie Drakes, Fannie Jackson, Henry Joiner, Hester Jones, James Clark, Joycie Stith, Louise Smith, Rev. C.H Savage, Tom Jones | 8-29/30-1941 | If I Had My Way, I'd Tear the Building Down | sacred song, shout, spiritual | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | King and Anderson Plantation, Mount Ararat Missionary Baptist Church | Identified as “Samson” on AFS card. Personnel listed are those notated by Lomax; not all of them can be confirmed to perform on this band. | anniea joinerc drakes fannie joinerh hester clarkj stith smithl revsavage tomjones | sacred-song shout spiritual | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | king ararat | |||
O David | 4766A2 | Annie Anderson, Caroline Joiner, Charlie Drakes, Fannie Jackson, Henry Joiner, Hester Jones, James Clark, Joycie Stith, Louise Smith, Rev. C.H Savage, Tom Jones | 8-29/30-1941 | Little David, Play On Your Harp | sacred song, shout, spiritual | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | King and Anderson Plantation, Mount Ararat Missionary Baptist Church | Identified as “O David” on AFS card. | anniea joinerc drakes fannie joinerh hester clarkj stith smithl revsavage tomjones | sacred-song shout spiritual | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | king ararat | |||
I Know the Lord Will Fix A Way for Me | 4766A3 | Annie Anderson, Caroline Joiner, Charlie Drakes, Fannie Jackson, Henry Joiner, Hester Jones, James Clark, Joycie Stith, Louise Smith, Rev. C.H Savage, Tom Jones | 8-29/30-1941 | sacred song, shout, spiritual | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | King and Anderson Plantation, Mount Ararat Missionary Baptist Church | Led by Hester Jones. Preceded by discussion of where she learned the song. Personnel listed are those notated by Lomax; not all of them can be confirmed to perform on this band. | anniea joinerc drakes fannie joinerh hester clarkj stith smithl revsavage tomjones | sacred-song shout spiritual | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | king ararat | ||||
I'm No Way Worried (Glory Hallelujah) | 4766A4 | Annie Anderson, Caroline Joiner, Charlie Drakes, Fannie Jackson, Henry Joiner, James Clark, Joycie Stith, Louise Smith, Rev. C.H Savage, Tom Jones | 8-29/30-1941 | sacred song, shout, spiritual | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | King and Anderson Plantation, Mount Ararat Missionary Baptist Church | Joiner sings lead and introduces the song as one she learned from her mother | anniea joinerc drakes fannie joinerh clarkj stith smithl revsavage tomjones | sacred-song shout spiritual | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | king ararat | ||||
I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray | 4766B1 | Annie Anderson, Caroline Joiner, Charlie Drakes, Fannie Jackson, Henry Joiner, Hester Jones, James Clark, Joycie Stith, Louise Smith, Rev. C.H Savage, Tom Jones | 8-29/30-1941 | sacred song, shout, spiritual | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | King and Anderson Plantation, Mount Ararat Missionary Baptist Church | Tape (not disc) transfer, as can be heard by speeding up to pitch at top. | anniea joinerc drakes fannie joinerh hester clarkj stith smithl revsavage tomjones | sacred-song shout spiritual | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | king ararat | ||||
Calvary | 4766B2 | Annie Anderson, Caroline Joiner, Charlie Drakes, Fannie Jackson, Henry Joiner, Hester Jones, James Clark, Joycie Stith, Louise Smith, Rev. C.H Savage, Tom Jones | 8-29/30-1941 | sacred song, shout, spiritual | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | King and Anderson Plantation, Mount Ararat Missionary Baptist Church | Followed by discussion of song by Rev. Savage and Henry Joiner. Personnel listed are those notated by Lomax; not all of them can be confirmed to perform on this band. | anniea joinerc drakes fannie joinerh hester clarkj stith smithl revsavage tomjones | sacred-song shout spiritual | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | king ararat | ||||
He Rose, He Rose | 4766B3 | Annie Anderson, Caroline Joiner, Charlie Drakes, Fannie Jackson, Henry Joiner, Hester Jones, James Clark, Joycie Stith, Louise Smith, Rev. C.H Savage, Tom Jones | 8-29/30-1941 | sacred song, shout, spiritual | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | King and Anderson Plantation, Mount Ararat Missionary Baptist Church | Lomax requests this song at the end of the preceding band. Personnel listed are those notated by Lomax; not all of them can be confirmed to perform on this band. | anniea joinerc drakes fannie joinerh hester clarkj stith smithl revsavage tomjones | sacred-song shout spiritual | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | king ararat | ||||
Moaning | 4767A1 | Annie Anderson, Caroline Joiner, Charlie Drakes, Fannie Jackson, Henry Joiner, Hester Jones, James Clark, Joycie Stith, Louise Smith, Rev. C.H Savage, Tom Jones | 8-29/30-1941 | sacred song, shout, spiritual | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | King and Anderson Plantation, Mount Ararat Missionary Baptist Church | Identified as such on AFS card. Personnel listed are those notated by Lomax; not all of them can be confirmed to perform on this band. | anniea joinerc drakes fannie joinerh hester clarkj stith smithl revsavage tomjones | sacred-song shout spiritual | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | king ararat | ||||
I'm Goin' to Stay On the Battlefield Till I Die | 4767A2 | Annie Anderson, Caroline Joiner, Charlie Drakes, Fannie Jackson, Henry Joiner, Hester Jones, James Clark, Joycie Stith, Louise Smith, Rev. C.H Savage, Tom Jones | 8-29/30-1941 | sacred song, spiritual | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | King and Anderson Plantation, Mount Ararat Missionary Baptist Church | Personnel listed are those notated by Lomax; not all of them can be confirmed to perform on this band. | Note that 4767B is unrelated to the Coahoma sessions. | anniea joinerc drakes fannie joinerh hester clarkj stith smithl revsavage tomjones | sacred-song spiritual | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | king ararat | |||
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 | stovall | coahoma | ||||||
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 | stovall | coahoma | ||||||
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 | stovall | coahoma | ||||||
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 | stovall | coahoma | ||||||
Baptism service (part 1) | 4772A | Rev. Price | 8/31/1941 | religious speech | vocal | Money | Leflore | Mississippi | Calvary Baptist Church | Sermon preceding a baptism by Rev. Price of Clarksdale. | The preceding disc, 4771, also recorded at Calvary, is missing. | www.loc.gov/resource/afc2004004.ms070317/?sp=24 | revprice | religious-speech | vocal | money | leflore | calvary | ||
Baptism service (part 2) | 4772B | Calvary Baptist Church congregation, Rev. Price | 8/31/1941 | hymn, religious speech, spiritual | vocal | Money | Leflore | Mississippi | Calvary Baptist Church | Hymns (including lining hymns) and prayers at a baptismal service. A Rev. Young is referred to. | www.loc.gov/resource/afc2004004.ms070317/?sp=25 | calvary revprice | hymn religious-speech spiritual | vocal | money | leflore | calvary | |||
I'm A Soldier (In the Army of the Lord) / Ain't But One Way to Glory | 4774A | Doodlum Brown, Mother Vickson, Sister Johnson, Sister Richardson, Sister Turner, Wineleg Williams | 8-31-1941 | religious speech, sacred song | clapping, guitar, tamborine, vocal | Lula, Moon Lake | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ, Mohead Plantation | Performances interspersed with testimony. Personnel listed are those notated by Lomax or heard referred to on the recordings. | doodlum vickson sisjohnson sisrichardson sisturner wineleg | religious-speech sacred-song | clapping guitar tamborine vocal | lula moon-lake | coahoma | cogic mohead | ||||
Worship service (testimonials) | 4775A1 | Doodlum Brown, Mother Vickson, Sister Johnson, Sister Richardson, Sister Turner, Wineleg Williams | 8/31/1941 | religious speech | guitar, vocal | Lula, Moon Lake | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ, Mohead Plantation | Personnel listed are those notated by Lomax or heard referred to on the recordings. | doodlum vickson sisjohnson sisrichardson sisturner wineleg | religious-speech | guitar vocal | lula moon-lake | coahoma | cogic mohead | ||||
I'm Gonna Lift Up A Standard for My King | 4775A2 | Doodlum Brown, Mother Vickson, Sister Johnson, Sister Richardson, Sister Turner, Wineleg Williams | 8-31-1941 | sacred song | clapping, guitar, tamborine, vocal | Lula, Moon Lake | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ, Mohead Plantation | Personnel listed are those notated by Lomax or heard referred to on the recordings. | doodlum vickson sisjohnson sisrichardson sisturner wineleg | sacred-song | clapping guitar tamborine vocal | lula moon-lake | coahoma | cogic mohead | ||||
Build Up A Building for the Lord / One Day, Lord (I'll Give Up This World and Follow You) / Testimonials / He Died for Me | 4775B | Doodlum Brown, Mother Vickson, Sister Johnson, Sister Richardson, Sister Turner, Wineleg Williams | 8-31-1941 | religious speech, sacred song | clapping, guitar, tamborine, vocal | Lula, Moon Lake | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ, Mohead Plantation | Performance followed by testimonials, including some instances of speech-in-tongues and “getting happy.” (These bands are identified as “Sermon and singing” on AFS cards.) Personnel listed are those notated by Lomax or heard referred to on the recordings. | doodlum vickson sisjohnson sisrichardson sisturner wineleg | religious-speech sacred-song | clapping guitar tamborine vocal | lula moon-lake | coahoma | cogic mohead | ||||
Worship service (testimonials and prayers) / Amen Amen Amen | 4776A | Doodlum Brown, Mother Vickson, Sister Johnson, Sister Richardson, Sister Turner, Wineleg Williams | 8/31/1941 | religious speech, sacred song | clapping, guitar, tamborine, vocal | Lula, Moon Lake | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ, Mohead Plantation | Performance of “Amen Amen Amen” is preceded by an introduction of “Mother Vickson” from Shelby, Miss., with both testimonials and prayers before and after. Band is identified simply as “Singing” on AFS card. Personnel listed are those notated by Lomax or heard referred to on the recordings. | doodlum vickson sisjohnson sisrichardson sisturner wineleg | religious-speech sacred-song | clapping guitar tamborine vocal | lula moon-lake | coahoma | cogic mohead | ||||
Worship service (preaching and Bible reading) | 4776B | Doodlum Brown, Mother Vickson, Sister Johnson, Sister Richardson, Sister Turner, Wineleg Williams | 8/31/1941 | religious speech, sacred song | guitar, vocal | Lula, Moon Lake | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ, Mohead Plantation | Band is identified simply as “Singing” on AFS card. Personnel listed are those notated by Lomax or heard referred to on the recordings. | doodlum vickson sisjohnson sisrichardson sisturner wineleg | religious-speech sacred-song | guitar vocal | lula moon-lake | coahoma | cogic mohead | ||||
Stories of Jefferson Davis and Isaiah T. Montgomery | 4777A | George Johnson Jr. | 9/2/1941 | oral history, story | vocal | Mound Bayou | Bolivar | Mississippi | Stories of Jeff Davis and Isaiah T. Montgomery. Johnson was born a slave at Davis’s Hurricane Plantation. Primary interviewer is Lewis Jones. | www.loc.gov/resource/afc2004004.ms070317/?sp=34 | johnsong | oral-history story | vocal | mound-bayou | bolivar | |||||
Recollections of Jefferson Davis' slaves band and dances; settlement and bands in Mound Bayou | 4777B | George Johnson Jr. | 9/2/1941 | oral history | vocal | Mound Bayou | Bolivar | Mississippi | Story by Unidentified man (named, in some capacity, after Jefferson Davis) concerning the 14-piece brass band that Jeff Davis organized originally for his slaves, of which the speaker was a member till 1884. Discusses the repertoire and some of the dances (ring plays; quadrilles). He also discusses his resettlement and bands in Mound Bayou. Interview ends with a discussion of diminishing African American presence in the town. | www.loc.gov/resource/afc2004004.ms070317/?sp=34 | johnsong | oral-history | vocal | mound-bayou | bolivar | |||||
Recollections of church at Hurricane; field hollers and blues; dances and church songs; Davis Bend excursions; cotton-pickings and community celebrations | 4778A | George Johnson Jr. | 9/2/1941 | oral history | vocal | Mound Bayou | Bolivar | Mississippi | Recollections of “getting religion” at Hurricane Plantation, meetings and songs (including a short performance of “Mercy Seat”). Jones asks about singing in the field; the interviewee sings “Old Black Joe.” Discussion of first hearing the blues – “too wild” – when he first arrived in Mound Bayou 54 years previously; dance music around Mound Bayou; songs in the A.M.E. church (with brief sung example) and old-time jubilee/revival songs; a local fiddler and recitation of “I lost my fiddle and I lost my bow”; childrens’ games; white excursions to Davis Bend. | www.loc.gov/resource/afc2004004.ms070317/?sp=34 | johnsong | oral-history | vocal | mound-bayou | bolivar | |||||
Recollections of bands at Davis Bend; studying music at Alcorn; contemporary musicians in Mound Bayou | 4778B | George Johnson Jr. | 9/2/1941 | oral history | vocal | Mound Bayou | Bolivar | Mississippi | Recollections of Davis Bend bands (string and brass) and their instrumentation; fife-blowing; studying music at Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Alcorn State University); lack of contemporary musical ability in Mound Bayou. Brief discussions of farming and raising children in Mound Bayou; white vs. black musical ability; the price of fuel; Jeff Davis’ glass eye; his grandmother. | www.loc.gov/resource/afc2004004.ms070317/?sp=34 | johnsong | oral-history | vocal | mound-bayou | bolivar | |||||
Recollections of learning music; reels, blues and march music; mother's Creole origins | 4779A | George Johnson Jr. | 9/2/1941 | oral history | vocal | Mound Bayou | Bolivar | Mississippi | Recollections of learning to read music; drummers and bones players; marches and quick steps and his distaste for blues; more on Jeff Davis; his mother’s Louisiana Creole origins (he cusses Jones out in Creole French); fiddles and banjos; brief talk on jazz and “tough songs.” | www.loc.gov/resource/afc2004004.ms070317/?sp=34 | johnsong | oral-history | vocal | mound-bayou | bolivar | |||||
Recollections of slavery-time conditions and activities at Hurricane Plantation | 4779B | George Johnson Jr. | 9/2/1941 | oral history | vocal | Mound Bayou | Bolivar | Mississippi | Recollections of conditions for slaves on Jefferson Davis’ Hurricane Plantation; Davis’ mule Righteous Bill and barnyard; corn-huskings, horse races, and riding tournaments; ghosts, spirits, and black superstitions; lullabies his mother sang; Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox (stories he purports to have never heard because he wasn’t interested in hearing them); dance steps. The interview ends with a discussion of Jeff Davis’ walking stick of given to the speaker by Montgomery and, after a distorted passage, conditions for young Negroes in Mississippi. | johnsong | oral-history | vocal | mound-bayou | bolivar | ||||||
Levee Camp Blues (#1) | 4780A2 | Eddie (Son) House, Fiddlin' Joe Martin, Leroy Williams, Willie Brown | 9-3-1941 | blues | fiddle, guitar, harmonica, vocal | Lake Cormorant | DeSoto | Mississippi | at the Clack Store | An archival source for both sides of this disc was unavailable at the time of cataloging (Spring 2018). The Library of Congress’ disc concordance states that no preservation reel was made when the rest of the collection was transferred (1968), which suggests the disc was either damaged or missing. However, the fact that the recordings have been commercially issued (see Biograph’s “The Original Library of Congress Sessions From Field Recordings 1941-1942”) argues that the disc or at least a tape transfer does survive and is simply currently (still) missing. The audio in this catalog, then, is that issued on the Biograph CD. | son fiddlin leroy willieb | blues | fiddle guitar harmonica vocal | lake-cormorant | desoto | clack | ||||
Government Fleet Blues | 4780B1 | Eddie (Son) House, Fiddlin' Joe Martin, Leroy Williams, Willie Brown | 9-3-1941 | blues | fiddle, guitar, harmonica, vocal | Lake Cormorant | DeSoto | Mississippi | at the Clack Store | An archival source for both sides of this disc was unavailable at the time of cataloging (Spring 2018). The Library of Congress’ disc concordance states that no preservation reel was made when the rest of the collection was transferred (1968), which suggests the disc was either damaged or missing. However, the fact that the recordings have been commercially issued (see Biograph’s “The Original Library of Congress Sessions From Field Recordings 1941-1942”) argues that the disc or at least a tape transfer does survive and is simply currently (still) missing. The audio in this catalog, then, is that issued on the Biograph CD. | son fiddlin leroy willieb | blues | fiddle guitar harmonica vocal | lake-cormorant | desoto | clack | ||||
Walking Blues | 4780B2 | Eddie (Son) House, Fiddlin' Joe Martin, Leroy Williams, Willie Brown | 9-3-1941 | blues | fiddle, guitar, harmonica, vocal | Lake Cormorant | DeSoto | Mississippi | at the Clack Store | An archival source for both sides of this disc was unavailable at the time of cataloging (Spring 2018). The Library of Congress’ disc concordance states that no preservation reel was made when the rest of the collection was transferred (1968), which suggests the disc was either damaged or missing. However, the fact that the recordings have been commercially issued (see Biograph’s “The Original Library of Congress Sessions From Field Recordings 1941-1942”) argues that the disc or at least a tape transfer does survive and is simply currently (still) missing. The audio in this catalog, then, is that issued on the Biograph CD. | son fiddlin leroy willieb | blues | fiddle guitar harmonica vocal | lake-cormorant | desoto | clack | ||||
Shetland Pony Blues | 4781A1 | Eddie (Son) House | 9/3/1941 | blues | guitar, vocal | Lake Cormorant | DeSoto | Mississippi | at the Clack Store | son | blues | guitar vocal | lake-cormorant | desoto | clack | |||||
Fo' Clock Blues | 4781A2 | Eddie (Son) House, Fiddlin' Joe Martin, Willie Brown | 9-3-1941 | blues | guitar, mandolin, vocal | Lake Cormorant | DeSoto | Mississippi | at the Clack Store | son fiddlin willieb | blues | guitar mandolin vocal | lake-cormorant | desoto | clack | |||||
Make Me A Pallet On the Floor | 4781A3 | Willie Brown | 9-3-1941 | blues | guitar, vocal | Lake Cormorant | DeSoto | Mississippi | at the Clack Store | willieb | blues | guitar vocal | lake-cormorant | desoto | clack | |||||
Levee Camp Hollers | 4781B1 | Eddie (Son) House, Fiddlin' Joe Martin, Willie Brown | 9-3-1941 | field holler | vocal | Lake Cormorant | DeSoto | Mississippi | at the Clack Store | son fiddlin willieb | field-holler | vocal | lake-cormorant | desoto | clack | |||||
Delta Blues | 4781B2 | Eddie (Son) House, Leroy Williams | 9-3-1941 | blues | guitar, harmonica, vocal | Lake Cormorant | DeSoto | Mississippi | at the Clack Store | son leroy | blues | guitar harmonica vocal | lake-cormorant | desoto | clack | |||||
Going to Fishing | 4781B3 | Fiddlin' Joe Martin, Leroy Williams, Willie Brown | 9-3-1941 | blues | guitar, harmonica, percussion, vocal | Lake Cormorant | DeSoto | Mississippi | at the Clack Store | fiddlin leroy willieb | blues | guitar harmonica percussion vocal | lake-cormorant | desoto | clack | |||||
Uncle Sam Done Called (fragment) | 4782A1 | Fiddlin' Joe Martin, Leroy Williams, Willie Brown | 9-3-1941 | blues, topical song | guitar, harmonica, vocal | Lake Cormorant | DeSoto | Mississippi | at the Clack Store | Identified as a microphone test in AFS catalog. | fiddlin leroy willieb | blues topical-song | guitar harmonica vocal | lake-cormorant | desoto | clack | ||||
Uncle Sam Done Called | 4782A2 | Fiddlin' Joe Martin, Leroy Williams, Willie Brown | 9-3-1941 | blues, topical song | guitar, harmonica, vocal | Lake Cormorant | DeSoto | Mississippi | at the Clack Store | Remaining side is a brief instrumental by E.C. Ball (recorded in Virginia) followed by empty disc. | fiddlin leroy willieb | blues topical-song | guitar harmonica vocal | lake-cormorant | desoto | clack | ||||
Opening announcement | 6604A8 | Unidentified minister | 7-11-1942 | religious speech | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | The minister announces the visitors and makes other brief remarks on the musical program that will take place. | uminister | religious-speech | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | silent | ||||
I Love the Lord, He Heard My Cry | 6604B1 | Silent Grove Baptist Church congregation | 7-11-1942 | lining hymn, sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | Identified on AFS card as “Dr. Watts hymn.” | silent | lining-hymn sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | silent | ||||
Prayer | 6604B2 | Silent Grove Baptist Church congregation, Unidentified minister | 7-11-1942 | religious speech | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | Congregation picks up singing over the minister’s prayer. | silent uminister | religious-speech | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | silent | ||||
Announcement | 6604B3 | Unidentified minister | 7-11-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | uminister | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | silent | |||||
I'll Fly Away | 6604B4 | Silent Grove Baptist Church congregation | 7-11-1942 | hymn, sacred song, spiritual | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | silent | hymn sacred-song spiritual | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | silent | |||||
Use Me, My Lord, Use Me | 6604B5 | Unidentified jubilee quartet | 7-11-1942 | sacred song, spiritual | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | uquartet | sacred-song spiritual | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | silent | |||||
Song fragment | 6606B2 | Eddie (Son) House | 7-17-1942 | blues | guitar, vocal | Robinsonville | Coahoma | Mississippi | Alternately identified as “Sun Goin’ Down,” “I Ain’t Goin’ to Cry No More,” and “Special Rider” on various releases and (in the case of the latter) Blues and Gospel Recordings. | son | blues | guitar vocal | robinsonville | coahoma | ||||||
Special Rider Blues | 6606B3 | Eddie (Son) House | 7-17-1942 | blues | guitar, vocal | Robinsonville | Coahoma | Mississippi | Followed by brief discussion of song, which House said he learned in 1928 from Willie Williams in Matson, Miss., and by the tuning (Spanish A). | son | blues | guitar vocal | robinsonville | coahoma | ||||||
Low Down Dirty Dog Blues | 6607A1 | Eddie (Son) House | 7-17-1942 | blues | guitar, vocal | Robinsonville | Coahoma | Mississippi | son | blues | guitar vocal | robinsonville | coahoma | |||||||
Depot Blues | 6607A2 | Eddie (Son) House | 7-17-1942 | blues | guitar, vocal | Robinsonville | Coahoma | Mississippi | Followed by demonstration of tuning and chords, and lyric improvisation. | son | blues | guitar vocal | robinsonville | coahoma | ||||||
American Defense | 6607B1 | Eddie (Son) House | 7-17-1942 | lyric song, topical song | guitar, vocal | Robinsonville | Coahoma | Mississippi | Followed by discussion and tuning demonstration. House says he made the song up three months earlier. | son | lyric-song topical-song | guitar vocal | robinsonville | coahoma | ||||||
Am I Right Or Wrong | 6607B2 | Eddie (Son) House | 7-17-1942 | lyric song | guitar, vocal | Robinsonville | Coahoma | Mississippi | son | lyric-song | guitar vocal | robinsonville | coahoma | |||||||
Walking Blues | 6607B3 | Eddie (Son) House | 7-17-1942 | Death Letter Blues | blues | guitar, vocal | Robinsonville | Coahoma | Mississippi | In the Lomax interview that follows, House discusses his experience recording for the Paramount company in 1930, and his affiliation with the Delta Big Four and Charley Patton. He also identifies this song as “Walking Blues,” although what was issued on Paramount under that name is a different song. This performance would be identified on 1960s releases as “Death Letter (Blues).” | son | blues | guitar vocal | robinsonville | coahoma | |||||
County Farm Blues | 6608A1 | Eddie (Son) House | 7-17-1942 | blues | guitar, vocal | Robinsonville | Coahoma | Mississippi | Brief interview with Lomax follows. | son | blues | guitar vocal | robinsonville | coahoma | ||||||
The Pony Blues | 6608A2 | Eddie (Son) House | 7-17-1942 | blues | guitar, vocal | Robinsonville | Coahoma | Mississippi | Followed by tuning demonstration; House says he learned the tuning from Willie Brown. | son | blues | guitar vocal | robinsonville | coahoma | ||||||
The Jinx Blues (#1) | 6608A3 | Eddie (Son) House | 7-17-1942 | blues | guitar, vocal | Robinsonville | Coahoma | Mississippi | son | blues | guitar vocal | robinsonville | coahoma | |||||||
The Jinx Blues (#2) | 6608B1 | Eddie (Son) House | 7-17-1942 | blues | guitar, vocal | Robinsonville | Coahoma | Mississippi | son | blues | guitar vocal | robinsonville | coahoma | |||||||
Meet Me In Jerusalem | 6608B2 | Turner S. Johnson Jr. (Turner Junior Johnson) | 7-19-1942 | sacred song | harmonica, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Followed by discussion of song. | turnerjunior | sacred-song | harmonica vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
When I Lay My Burden Down | 6608B3 | Turner S. Johnson Jr. (Turner Junior Johnson) | 7-19-1942 | sacred song | harmonica, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Followed by discussion of song and text. | turnerjunior | sacred-song | harmonica vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Sweet Lamb of God | 6609A1 | Turner S. Johnson Jr. (Turner Junior Johnson) | 7-19-1942 | sacred song | harmonica, percussion, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Followed by discussion of song. | turnerjunior | sacred-song | harmonica percussion vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Preacher Let Your Heart Catch On Fire | 6609A2 | Turner S. Johnson Jr. (Turner Junior Johnson) | 7-19-1942 | sacred song | harmonica, percussion, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Followed by discussion of song and having the Holy Ghost in his heart. | turnerjunior | sacred-song | harmonica percussion vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
In New Jerusalem | 6609A3 | Turner S. Johnson Jr. (Turner Junior Johnson) | 7-19-1942 | sacred song | harmonica, percussion, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | turnerjunior | sacred-song | harmonica percussion vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||||
In New Jerusalem | 6609A4 | Turner S. Johnson Jr. (Turner Junior Johnson) | 7-19-1942 | sacred song | harmonica, percussion, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | turnerjunior | sacred-song | harmonica percussion vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||||
Traveling On | 6609A5 | Turner S. Johnson Jr. (Turner Junior Johnson) | 7-19-1942 | sacred song | harmonica, percussion, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | turnerjunior | sacred-song | harmonica percussion vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||||
The Buzzard Eats the Rabbit | 6609B1 | Turner S. Johnson Jr. (Turner Junior Johnson) | 7-19-1942 | joke, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | turnerjunior | joke story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||||
The Hawk and the Buzzard | 6609B2 | Turner S. Johnson Jr. (Turner Junior Johnson) | 7-19-1942 | joke, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | turnerjunior | joke story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||||
Sitting On Top of the World | 6609B3 | Turner S. Johnson Jr. (Turner Junior Johnson) | 7-19-1942 | blues, popular song | harmonica, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Preceded with questions from Lewis Jones about the secular songs in his repertoire (those he performs while busking), and followed by commentary on Blind Sid Hemphill, from whom he learned the song, and how to find him. Lomax and Jones would visit him several days later. | turnerjunior | blues popular-song | harmonica vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Minglewood Blues | 6609B4 | Turner S. Johnson Jr. (Turner Junior Johnson) | 7-19-1942 | blues, popular song | harmonica, percussion, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Erroneously identified on AFS card as “Manuwat Blues.” | turnerjunior | blues popular-song | harmonica percussion vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Interview about childrens' games | 6610A1 | Alan Lomax, David (Honeyboy) Edwards | 7-20-1942 | interview | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Interview with Edwards about ring games he played as a child. | Marred by noise in the right channel at 2:17. | lomax honeyboy | interview | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | aggie | |||
Spread My Raincoat Down | 6610A2 | David (Honeyboy) Edwards | 7-20-1942 | blues | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Edwards tells Lomax this is the first song he learned. | honeyboy | blues | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Interview about Spread My Raincoat Down and the meaning and origins of the blues | 6610B1 | Alan Lomax, David (Honeyboy) Edwards | 7-20-1942 | interview | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Discussion of the preceding “plantation song,” which Edwards learned as a boy in Shaw, Miss.; what the blues “are all about”; and the first time he had the blues. | lomax honeyboy | interview | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
You Got To Roll (I) | 6610B2 | David (Honeyboy) Edwards | 7-20-1942 | blues, holler | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Identified by Lomax as a “chain gang song.” | honeyboy | blues holler | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
You Got To Roll (II) | 6610B3 | David (Honeyboy) Edwards | 7-20-1942 | blues, holler | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Followed by discussion of song’s origins and some of the lyrics, including Lomax asking Edwards why he changed the lyrics for the recording from “white folks” to “baby.” Also about his musician father and his repertoire. | honeyboy | blues holler | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Stagolee | 6610B4 | David (Honeyboy) Edwards | 7-20-1942 | blues, dance tune, reel | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | A song (and in a style) learned from his father. | honeyboy | blues dance-tune reel | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Stagolee | 6610B4 | David (Honeyboy) Edwards | 7-20-1942 | blues, dance tune, reel | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | A song (and in a style) learned from his father. | honeyboy | blues dance-tune reel | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Just A Spoonful | 6610B5 | David (Honeyboy) Edwards | 7-20-1942 | blues, dance tune, reel | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | A song (and in a style) learned from his father. | honeyboy | blues dance-tune reel | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
I Love My Jelly Roll | 6611A1 | David (Honeyboy) Edwards | 7-20-1942 | lyric song | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | A song learned from a Ringling Bros. show: “a shine thing, a negro thing.” | honeyboy | lyric-song | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Interview about Edwards' interest in music, his music-making father, and sinful music | 6611A2 | David (Honeyboy) Edwards | 7-20-1942 | interview | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Discusses his father joining the church and quitting music; a chord demonstration; and the blues as the Devil’s music. | honeyboy | interview | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Hellatakin' Blues | 6611A3 | David (Honeyboy) Edwards | 7-20-1942 | Hesitation Blues | lyric song | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Edwards sings this as “Hellatakin’,” and it’s cataloged as such on AFS card. | honeyboy | lyric-song | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||
Interview about church-going, learning to play, and playing for dances | 6611A4 | David (Honeyboy) Edwards | 7-20-1942 | interview | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | honeyboy | interview | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||||
Interview about traveling, playing dances, | 6611B | David (Honeyboy) Edwards | 7-20-1942 | interview | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Talk on his travels as an itinerant musician, the dances he played, the musicians he played with (particularly in Memphis), various intoxicants, writing and recording blues. Discusses Bluebird Records and its talent scouts specifically, songwriting and songwriting/sales royalties vs. flat fees. Conversation continues about his preference for the North, and for integration. “Where you can be treated like a man,” Lomax said. More on country dances, dances, how much whiskey he’s drunk. | honeyboy | interview | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Worried Life Blues | 6612A1 | David (Honeyboy) Edwards | 7-20-1942 | blues | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Followed by discussion of composing vs. improvising verses. | honeyboy | blues | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Water Coast Blues | 6612A2 | David (Honeyboy) Edwards | 7-20-1942 | blues | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Preceded by several false starts and much blank disc. | honeyboy | blues | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
The Army Blues | 6612B1 | David (Honeyboy) Edwards | 7-20-1942 | blues, topical song | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Followed by discussion of the song, which he had written “about three weeks ago,” and the war. | honeyboy | blues topical-song | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Tear It Down | 6612B2 | David (Honeyboy) Edwards | 7-20-1942 | Tear It Down (Bed Slats and All) | lyric song | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | The item identified as “Ragtime Selection” in the AFS catalog (6612B3) is presumably this one. | honeyboy | lyric-song | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||
Near the Cross | 6612B4 | Rev. John McGhee, Turner S. Johnson Jr. (Turner Junior Johnson) | 7-20-1942 | sacred song | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | “Bemford’s” surname is not given, nor are the fourth and fifth members of the group. Johnson is identified as the “President of the Quartet [sic].” | revmcghee turnerjunior | sacred-song | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | ||||||
Tossed and Driven | 6612B5 | Bemford, Friendly Five Harmony Singers, Rev. John McGhee, Turner S. Johnson Jr. (Turner Junior Johnson), Unidentified | 7-20-1942 | I'm Trying to Make Heaven My Home; I've Heard of a City Called Heaven | sacred song | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | “Bemford’s” surname is not given, nor are the fourth and fifth members of the group. Johnson is identified as the “President of the Quartet [sic].” | bemford friendly revmcghee turnerjunior unidentified | sacred-song | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | |||||
There's No Grave Can Hold My Body Down | 6613A1 | Bemford, Friendly Five Harmony Singers, Rev. John McGhee, Turner S. Johnson Jr. (Turner Junior Johnson), Unidentified | 7-20-1942 | sacred song | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | Followed by plea for upright conduct. “Bemford’s” surname is not given, nor are the fourth and fifth members of the group. Johnson is identified as the “President of the Quartet [sic].” | bemford friendly revmcghee turnerjunior unidentified | sacred-song | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | ||||||
Speech | 6613A2 | Turner S. Johnson Jr. (Turner Junior Johnson) | 7-20-1942 | spoken | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | Johnson makes a plea for brotherhood and upright conduct. | turnerjunior | spoken | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | ||||||
Get Away, Jordan | 6613A3 | Rev. John McGhee, Turner S. Johnson Jr. (Turner Junior Johnson) | 7-20-1942 | Wasn't That A Mighty Day | sacred song | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | “Bemford’s” surname is not given, nor are the fourth and fifth members of the group. Johnson is identified as the “President of the Quartet [sic].” | revmcghee turnerjunior | sacred-song | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | |||||
Recitation (I Believe the Good Old Bible From the Beginning to the End) | 6613A4 | Unidentified | 7-20-1942 | spoken | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | Speaker is identified as the second tenor of the group. | unidentified | spoken | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | ||||||
I Thank the Lord I'm In His Care | 6613A5 | Bemford, Friendly Five Harmony Singers, Rev. John McGhee, Turner S. Johnson Jr. (Turner Junior Johnson), Unidentified | 7-20-1942 | In My Savior's Care | sacred song | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | “Bemford’s” surname is not given, nor are the fourth and fifth members of the group. Johnson is identified as the “President of the Quartet [sic].” Followed by largely indecipherable discussion off mic. | bemford friendly revmcghee turnerjunior unidentified | sacred-song | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | |||||
Toasts, folk tale, and interview (part 1) | 6614A | David (Honeyboy) Edwards | 7-22-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Delta Tourist Camp | Title given is that on AFS card. Lomax and Edwards trade toasts from 10:30. Identified by Lomax as the Delta Tourist Camp (suggested by Chris Smith to be the Delta Tourist Courts • 1600 N. State St. in Clarksdale) | Disc skips heavily for first six minutes. | honeyboy | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | tourist | |||
toasts, folk tale, and interview (part 2) | 6614B | David (Honeyboy) Edwards | 7-22-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Delta Tourist Camp | Title given is that on AFS card. Largely an interview about catching trains, hobo musicians, and itinerancy. Lomax and Edwards discuss blues lyrics about rambling, being lonesome, and the “crossroads.” Ends with a Titanic toast. Identified by Lomax as the Delta Tourist Camp (suggested by Chris Smith to be the Delta Tourist Courts • 1600 N. State St. in Clarksdale) | honeyboy | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | tourist | ||||
Stories of a conjure man and blue-gummed people / Toast | 6615A1 | David (Honeyboy) Edwards | 7-22-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | (suggested by Chris Smith to be the Delta Tourist Courts, 1600 N. State St. in Clarksdale)., Identified by Lomax as the Delta Tourist Camp | Discussion of a conjuror (“conjur man”) named Uncle Tom; recitation of a dirty toast learned from a man from St. Louis; and talk on blue-gummed people. | honeyboy | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | suggested-by-chris-smith-to-be-the-delta-tourist-courts 1600-n-state-st-in-clarksdale identified-by-lomax-as-the-delta-tourist-camp | ||||
Do You Want A Little Bit of This? | 6615A2 | David (Honeyboy) Edwards | 7-22-1942 | bawdy song, game song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Delta Tourist Camp | Followed by discussion of the song and adolescent sexuality. Identified by Lomax as the Delta Tourist Camp (suggested by Chris Smith to be the Delta Tourist Courts • 1600 N. State St. in Clarksdale) | honeyboy | bawdy-song game-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | tourist | ||||
Test (Unidentified blues) | 6615B1 | David (Honeyboy) Edwards | 7-22-1942 | blues | guitar, harmonica, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | (suggested by Chris Smith to be the Delta Tourist Courts, 1600 N. State St. in Clarksdale)., Identified by Lomax as the Delta Tourist Camp | Identified as “test” on AFS card. Aural evidence suggests this could be Edwards’ performance that appears in Lomax’s Clarksdale film footage. | Marred by intense speed fluctuations. | honeyboy | blues | guitar harmonica vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | suggested-by-chris-smith-to-be-the-delta-tourist-courts 1600-n-state-st-in-clarksdale identified-by-lomax-as-the-delta-tourist-camp | |||
Wind Howlin' Blues | 6615B2 | David (Honeyboy) Edwards | 7-22-1942 | blues | guitar, harmonica, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Delta Tourist Camp | Identified by Lomax as the Delta Tourist Camp (suggested by Chris Smith to be the Delta Tourist Courts • 1600 N. State St. in Clarksdale) | honeyboy | blues | guitar harmonica vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | tourist | ||||
Roamin' and Ramblin Blues | 6615B3 | David (Honeyboy) Edwards | 7-22-1942 | blues | guitar, harmonica, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | (suggested by Chris Smith to be the Delta Tourist Courts, 1600 N. State St. in Clarksdale)., Identified by Lomax as the Delta Tourist Camp | Preceded by Lomax announcement of “a man who’s been all over the country, he’s a very experienced musician, same age as I am — 27 years old….” | honeyboy | blues | guitar harmonica vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | suggested-by-chris-smith-to-be-the-delta-tourist-courts 1600-n-state-st-in-clarksdale identified-by-lomax-as-the-delta-tourist-camp | ||||
At the Cross | 6616A1 | L.M. McNeal, Mississippi Baptist Convention congregation, Rev. H.F. Richardson, Rev. H.T. James, Rev. J.H Whiting, Rev. J.H. Haley | 7-23-1942 | hymn, sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | Individuals listed are those clergy/congregants notated by Lomax. Recorded at the Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | mcneal msbaptist revrichardson revjames revwhiting revhaley | hymn sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary | ||||
Scripture lesson | 6616A2 | Rev. T.B. Brown | 7-23-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | Rev. Brown is announced as being from Brookhaven, Miss. | revbrown | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary | ||||
When I Can Read My Title Clear (part 1) | 6616A3 | L.M. McNeal, Mississippi Baptist Convention congregation, Rev. H.F. Richardson, Rev. H.T. James, Rev. J.H Whiting, Rev. J.H. Haley | 7-23-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | Identified on AFS card as “When I Can Read My Promise Clear.” Individuals listed are those clergy/congregants notated by Lomax. Recorded at the Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | mcneal msbaptist revrichardson revjames revwhiting revhaley | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary | ||||
Prayer | 6616A4 | Rev. H.L. Davis | 7-23-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | Rev. Davis is announced as being from McComb, Miss., on 6612A2. | revdavis | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary | ||||
Sermon | 6616B1 | Unidentified | 7-23-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | Severe speed fluctuation for first minute. | unidentified | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary | ||||
I'll Fly Away | 6616B2 | L.M. McNeal, Mississippi Baptist Convention congregation, Rev. H.F. Richardson, Rev. H.T. James, Rev. J.H Whiting, Rev. J.H. Haley | 7-23-1942 | hymn, sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | Individuals listed are those clergy/congregants notated by Lomax. Recorded at the Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | mcneal msbaptist revrichardson revjames revwhiting revhaley | hymn sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary | ||||
Prayer after the sermon (part 1) | 6616B3 | J.H. Whiting | 7-23-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | Identified on AFS card as “Commencement of Prayer” (originally 6616B2); title given is drawn from first band on next disc as they’re of a piece. Whiting was identified as being from Greenwood, Miss. | j-h-whiting | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary | ||||
Prayer after the sermon (part 2) | 6617A1 | Rev. J.H Whiting | 7-23-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | Identified on AFS card as “Commencement of Prayer” (originally 6616B2); title given is drawn from first band on next disc as they’re of a piece. Whiting was identified as being from Greenwood, Miss. Recorded at the Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church. | revwhiting | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary | ||||
Take My Hand, Precious Lord, Lead Me On | 6617A2 | L.M. McNeal, Mississippi Baptist Convention congregation, Rev. H.F. Richardson, Rev. H.T. James, Rev. J.H Whiting, Rev. J.H. Haley | 7-23-1942 | hymn, sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | Individuals listed are those clergy/congregants notated by Lomax. Recorded at the Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | Severe speed fluctuation. | mcneal msbaptist revrichardson revjames revwhiting revhaley | hymn sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary | |||
Announcement of recording | 6617A3 | Unidentified | 7-23-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | Announcement of recordings being made the following day at Nelson Funeral Home, next door to the church. | Severe speed fluctuation. | unidentified | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary | |||
Sermon on "Kingdom Unity" (part 1) | 6617A4 | Rev. H.F. Richardson | 7-23-1942 | religious speech, spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | The subject of Rev. Richardson’s talk is “Kingdom Unity.” | Severe speed fluctuation. | revrichardson | religious-speech spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary | |||
Sermon on "Kingdom Unity" (part 2) | 6617B | Rev. H.F. Richardson | 7-23-1942 | religious speech, spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | The subject of Rev. Richardson’s talk is “Kingdom Unity.” Recorded at the Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | revrichardson | religious-speech spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary | ||||
Sermon on "Kingdom Unity" (part 3) | 6618A2 | Rev. H.F. Richardson | 7-23-1942 | religious speech, spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | The subject of Rev. Richardson’s talk is “Kingdom Unity.” Recorded at the Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | revrichardson | religious-speech spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary | ||||
Prayer | 6618A2 | Rev. O.C. Peaks | 7-23-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | Peaks (?) is announced at the top of the band. Recorded at the Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | revpeaks | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary | ||||
Just A Little Talk With Jesus | 6618A3 | L.M. McNeal, Mississippi Baptist Convention congregation, Rev. H.F. Richardson, Rev. H.T. James, Rev. J.H Whiting, Rev. J.H. Haley | 7-23-1942 | hymn, sacred song | piano, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | Individuals listed are those clergy/congregants notated by Lomax. | mcneal msbaptist revrichardson revjames revwhiting revhaley | hymn sacred-song | piano vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary | ||||
Sermon on foot-washing (part 2) | 6618B1 | Dr. Jones | 7-23-1942 | religious speech, spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | Identified on AFS card as “Fragment Of Talk.” Speaker is identified in announcement after his talk as Dr. Jones. Recorded at the Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | jonesdr | religious-speech spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary | ||||
Announcements | 6618B2 | Unidentified | 7-23-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | unidentified | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary | |||||
Go Preach My Gospel, Saith the Lord | 6618B3 | Mississippi Baptist Convention congregation, Rev. Gray | 7-23-1942 | long meter hymn, sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | The songleader is announced at the beginning of the band as what sounds like “Rev. Gray.” | msbaptist revgray | long-meter-hymn sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary | ||||
Missionary prayer | 6619A1 | Mississippi Baptist Convention congregation, Rev. H.T. James | 7-23-1942 | religious speech, spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | Recorded at the Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | msbaptist revjames | religious-speech spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary | ||||
Missionary sermon (part 1) | 6619A2 | Rev. J.W. Terrell | 7-23-1942 | religious speech, spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | Rev. Terrell was from Greenwood, Miss. Recorded at the Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | revterrell | religious-speech spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary | ||||
Missionary sermon (part 2) | 6619B1 | Rev. J.W. Terrell | 7-23-1942 | religious speech, spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | Rev. Terrell was from Greenwood, Miss. | revterrell | religious-speech spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary | ||||
Missionary sermon (part 3) | 6619B2 | Rev. J.W. Terrell | 7-23-1942 | religious speech, spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | Rev. Terrell was from Greenwood, Miss. Recorded at the Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | revterrell | religious-speech spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary | ||||
Missionary sermon (part 4) | 6620A | Rev. J.W. Terrell | 7-23-1942 | religious speech, spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | Rev. Terrell was from Greenwood, Miss. | revterrell | religious-speech spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary | ||||
Missionary sermon (conclusion) | 6620B1 | Rev. J.W. Terrell | 7-23-1942 | religious speech, spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | Rev. Terrell was from Greenwood, Miss. | revterrell | religious-speech spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary | ||||
Closing prayer | 6620B2 | Rev. J.H. Haley | 7-23-1942 | religious speech, spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | http://[Last portion Y!]/ | revhaley | religious-speech spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary | ||||
Closing prayer (fragment) | 6621A1 | Rev. J.H. Haley | 7-23-1942 | religious speech, spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | A fragment of the closing prayer on 6620B2. | Identified as “tests” on AFS card. | revhaley | religious-speech spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary | |||
Ambience | 6621A2 | Unidentified | 7-23-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | Identified as “tests” on AFS card. | unidentified | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary | ||||
Announcement/Prayer (fragment) | 6621A3 | Rev. T.J. Cooney Jr., Unidentified | 7-23-1942 | religious speech, spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | Announcements of forthcoming speakers and the report from the secretary and treasurer. “Cooney” might be Cuney. | Identified as “tests” on AFS card. | revcooney unidentified | religious-speech spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary | |||
[Blank] | 6621A4 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Blank disc with some machine hum. | n-a | n-a | n-a | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||||
Just A Closer Walk With Thee | 6621A5 | Rev. E.M. Martin | 7-23-1942 | hymn, sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | Rev. Martin gives his address, and Lomax announces that the song was sung from page two of the National Baptist Song Special, printed by the Goodwill Singers, Nashville. | revmartin | hymn sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | ||||
Crying Holy Unto the Lord (Woe Unto Your Soul) | 6621A6 | Rev. E.M. Martin | 7-23-1942 | hymn, sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | revmartin | hymn sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | |||||
Hold the Wind (#1) | 6621B1 | Rev. E.M. Martin | 7-23-1942 | hymn, sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | revmartin | hymn sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | |||||
Hold the Wind (#2) | 6621B2 | Rev. E.M. Martin | 7-23-1942 | hymn, sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | Followed by discussion of his learning the song, its religious connotations, and its origins. | revmartin | hymn sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | ||||
Interview about sacred songwriting and old-time reels and songs | 6622A1 | Alan Lomax, Charles Haffer, Jr. | 7-23-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | Discussion of songwriting and inspirations. Interspersed with sung example of “Precious Lord, Stand By Me.” Haffer discusses singing reels for candy-knockings, corn-shucking, and dances. Stagolee and Frankie and Johnny are mentioned. | lomax jr-charles-haffer | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | ||||
Interview about old-time reels and levee camps | 6622A2 | Alan Lomax, Charles Haffer, Jr. | 7-23-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | Continued from previous band – Liza Jane, Bill Bailey, Shortenin’ Bread, and a levee-camp holler are mentioned. “Back in the ’90s.” Discussion on levee camps, bad men, and sinfulness follows. | SC to -0.84 / 95.2% | lomax jr-charles-haffer | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | |||
Interview about sinful instruments; levee camp incidents; work songs; old-time dances and reels; banjos, guitars, and tent shows. | 6622B | Alan Lomax, Charles Haffer, Jr. | 7-23-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | Recollection of the piano being seen as a sinful instrument; congregants saying the church was being turned into a barrelhouse. Lomax asks about incidents on the levee camp, prompts Haffer with question about cocaine – he recites Take A Whiff On Me, and discusses the distribution of bad-man songs among the general population. Continues with discussion road-gang and timber songs. Haffer sings fragment of John Henry. Recollections of old-time square dances with fiddle and French harp (harmonica) and “calling figures.” Lomax prompts his memory with ballads like Barbara Allen and the Gallows Pole; Haffer says he recalls Casey Jones, but hums a fragment of Casey Bill instead. Haffer recites Birmingham Jail/Bird In A Cage, which he says was his favorite song. Discussion moves to banjos, tent shows, “floating palaces,” and changing musical tastes and repertoires. Talks about Joe Turner and the popularity of the song about him, played on guitar, dating it around 1900. With Lomax’s suggestion, he says Make Me A Pallet On the Floor and Alabama Bound were contemporaneous, and that the guitar eclipsed the banjo in popularity. “They thought they was progressing.” | lomax jr-charles-haffer | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | ||||
These Days Got Everybody Troubled | 6623A | Charles Haffer, Jr. | 7-23-1942 | topical song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | A song concerning the Second World War and national defense. Preceded and followed by discussion of his topical songwriting. | jr-charles-haffer | topical-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | ||||
Interview about geopolitics and race relations | 6623B1 | Alan Lomax, Charles Haffer, Jr. | 7-23-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | lomax jr-charles-haffer | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | |||||
The Natchez Theater Fire Disaster | 6623B2 | Charles Haffer, Jr. | 7-23-1942 | topical song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | Followed by discussion of the song, its publication, and dissemination, and Haffer’s intentions as a songwriter. “To warn the people – the uncoverted.” Brief talk on damnation and other disaster songs. Sings brief fragment of topical piece, “Storm of ’42” (see 6624A1). | jr-charles-haffer | topical-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | ||||
What A Storm (Storm of '42) | 6624A1 | Charles Haffer, Jr. | 7-23-1942 | topical song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | Introduces song with details of the storm, which stuck on March 16, 1942. Identified on AFS card as “Song of the Great Disaster.” Haffer says, on AFS 6626A3, that he’d written the song for the state Baptist convention. | jr-charles-haffer | topical-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | ||||
I'll Be Glad to See the Son When He Comes (conclusion) | 6624A2 | Charles Haffer, Jr. | 7-23-1942 | sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | Introduced with remarks on the second coming. | jr-charles-haffer | sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | ||||
I'll Be Glad to See the Son When He Comes (conclusion) | 6624A3 | Charles Haffer, Jr. | 7-23-1942 | sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | Not identified as separate band on AFS card. | jr-charles-haffer | sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | ||||
Where Shall I Be When the First Trumpet Sounds | 6624B1 | Pearline Johns, Rev. E.M. Martin | 7-23-1942 | sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | Followed by discussion of the song. Rev. Martin was from Christian Springs, MIss.; Ms. Johns was from Alligator, Miss. | pearline revmartin | sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | ||||
Motherless Children | 6624B2 | Pearline Johns, Rev. E.M. Martin | 7-23-1942 | sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | A fragment sung at Lomax’s request. Does not appear in AFS catalog. | pearline revmartin | sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | ||||
I'm Going Home On the Morning Train | 6624B3 | Pearline Johns, Rev. E.M. Martin | 7-23-1942 | Get Right Church | sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | pearline revmartin | sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | ||||
A Charge to Keep I Have | 6624B4 | Pearline Johns, Rev. E.M. Martin, Willie Dale Boyd | 7-23-1942 | lining hymn, long meter hymn, sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | pearline revmartin willieboyd | lining-hymn long-meter-hymn sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | |||||
Discussion of funeral customs | 6625A1 | Rev. E.M. Martin | 7-23-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | Continued on 6625B2. | Disc begins too fast, slows down to appropriate pitch by band’s end, when Lomax says he needs to get his “machine going a little better.” | revmartin | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | |||
Sermon on Job | 6625A2 | Rev. E.M. Martin | 7-23-1942 | religious speech, spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | SC to -0.72 / 95.9% | revmartin | religious-speech spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | ||||
Shine On Me | 6625B1 | Pearline Johns, Rev. E.M. Martin | 7-23-1942 | hymn, lining hymn, sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | Identified as “Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone” on AFS card. Two performances interspersed by discussion of varieties of Watts metered hymns – common, short, fast. | pearline revmartin | hymn lining-hymn sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | ||||
Discussion of funeral customs (continued) | 6625B2 | Rev. E.M. Martin | 7-23-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | Continued from 6625A1. | Internal speed fluctuation. | revmartin | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | |||
Interview about songwriting and song-peddling | 6626A1 | Alan Lomax, Charles Haffer, Jr. | 7-23-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | Discussion of race relations, peddling songs and newspapers, and his topical songwriting – in particular his ballad about the Titanic, which sold several thousand copies. | lomax jr-charles-haffer | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | ||||
The Titanic | 6626A2 | Charles Haffer, Jr. | 7-23-1942 | topical song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | jr-charles-haffer | topical-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | |||||
Strange Things Happening In the Land | 6626A3 | Charles Haffer, Jr. | 7-23-1942 | topical song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | Followed by discussion of songwriting. | jr-charles-haffer | topical-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | ||||
[Blank] | 6626B1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Blank disc with some machine hum. | n-a | n-a | n-a | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||||
Tent-show monologue | 6626B2 | M.C. Orr | 7-23-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | Orr recites a monologue from a tent show in which he performed. Identified as “opening routine in show” on AFS card. The section on the preacher and the bear was issued under that name on “The Land Where the Blues Began,” Rounder CD 1861, 2002. | orr | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | ||||
The Ugliest Animal, the Baboon | 6626B3 | M.C. Orr | 7-23-1942 | joke, spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | orr | joke spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | |||||
Big Mosquitos | 6626B4 | M.C. Orr | 7-23-1942 | joke, spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | orr | joke spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | |||||
The Man Who Walked On the Water Like Christ | 6626B5 | M.C. Orr | 7-23-1942 | joke, spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | orr | joke spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | |||||
The White Doctor and His Servant | 6626B6 | M.C. Orr | 7-23-1942 | joke, spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | orr | joke spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | |||||
John (Jack) Guesses What's Under the Pot | 6627A2 | Ulisses (Buck Asa) Jefferson | 7-23-1942 | joke, spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | Preceded by explanation of previous story. Buck Asa identifies the protagonist as both John and Jack. | buckasa | joke spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | ||||
John and the Lord | 6627A3 | Ulisses (Buck Asa) Jefferson | 7-23-1942 | Jack story, spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | buckasa | jack-story spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | |||||
The Preacher and His Hogs (part 1) | 6627A4 | Ulisses (Buck Asa) Jefferson | 7-23-1942 | spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | buckasa | spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | |||||
The Preacher and His Hogs (part 2) | 6627B1 | Ulisses (Buck Asa) Jefferson | 7-23-1942 | spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | buckasa | spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | |||||
Discussion of the Swift Peter (the dog killer) | 6627B2 | Ulisses (Buck Asa) Jefferson | 7-23-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | Buck Asa briefly discusses the dog-killing “Swift Peter” with Lomax and Lewis Jones, the latter of whom asks if he’s familiar with the “axe man,” but the machine is stopped. | buckasa | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | ||||
The Preacher Who Could Always Be Trapped By Pussy | 6627B3 | Ulisses (Buck Asa) Jefferson | 7-23-1942 | joke, spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | buckasa | joke spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | |||||
The Woman Who Couldn't Count | 6627B4 | M.C. Orr | 7-23-1942 | joke, spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | orr | joke spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | |||||
The Lady and Her Three Daughters | 6627B5 | M.C. Orr | 7-23-1942 | joke, spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | orr | joke spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | |||||
Bring Me My Duck | 6627B6 | M.C. Orr | 7-23-1942 | joke, spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | Disc cuts out before the story ends. | orr | joke spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | ||||
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 | stovall | coahoma | ||||||
White Man, Jew, and a Negro Go to Heaven | 6628A2 | M.C. Orr | 7-23-1942 | joke, spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | orr | joke spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | |||||
The Ox and the Mule | 6628A3 | M.C. Orr | 7-23-1942 | joke, spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | orr | joke spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | |||||
The Jew and the Irishman at the Cemetery | 6628A4 | M.C. Orr | 7-23-1942 | joke, spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Back room of Nelson's Funeral Home | Lewis Jones wonders aloud how the joke “made it down here.” | orr | joke spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | back-room-of-nelsons-funeral-home | ||||
[Blank] | 6628A5 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | n-a | n-a | n-a | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||||
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 | stovall | coahoma | |||||||
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 | stovall | coahoma | ||||||
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 | stovall | coahoma | ||||||
G on pitch pipe | 6628A9 | Alan Lomax | 7-24-1942 | N/A | pitch pipe | Stovall | Coahoma | Mississippi | lomax | n-a | pitch-pipe | stovall | coahoma | |||||||
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 | stovall | coahoma | |||||||
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 | stovall | coahoma | |||||||
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 | stovall | coahoma | ||||||
[Blank] | 6629A1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Stovall | Coahoma | Mississippi | n-a | n-a | n-a | stovall | coahoma | ||||||||
[Blank] | 6629A2 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Stovall | Coahoma | Mississippi | n-a | n-a | n-a | stovall | coahoma | ||||||||
I Be Bound to Write to You (#1) | 6629A3 | Charles Berry, McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) | 7-24-1942 | blues | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | berry muddy | blues | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||||
I Be Bound to Write to You (#2) | 6629A4 | Charles Berry, McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) | 7-24-1942 | blues | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | berry muddy | blues | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||||
You Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone | 6629A5 | McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters) | 7-24-1942 | blues | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | muddy | blues | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||||
Cornfield holler (#1) | 6629A6 | Charles Berry | 7-24-1942 | holler | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | berry | holler | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||||
G on pitch pipe | 6629A7 | Alan Lomax | 7-24-1942 | N/A | pitch pipe | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | lomax | n-a | pitch-pipe | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||||
[Blank] | 6629B1 | N/A | 7-24-1942 | N/A | N/A | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | n-a | n-a | n-a | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||||
[Blank] | 6629B2 | N/A | 7-24-1942 | N/A | N/A | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | n-a | n-a | n-a | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||||
Machine ambience | 6629B3 | N/A | 7-24-1942 | N/A | N/A | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Hum and other tape-machine ambience. | n-a | n-a | n-a | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
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 | stovall | coahoma | ||||||
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 | stovall | coahoma | |||||||
Joe Turner Blues | 6629B6 | Louis Ford, Son Sims | 7-24-1942 | blues | guitar, mandolin, vocal | Stovall | Coahoma | Mississippi | ford sonsims | blues | guitar mandolin vocal | stovall | coahoma | |||||||
Three Suitors Who Were Fast Men | 6630A1 | Asa Ware | 7-25-1942 | spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | asa | spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | |||||
The Foolish Boy and the Preachers | 6630A2 | Asa Ware | 7-25-1942 | joke, spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | asa | joke spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | |||||
Greensnake | 6630A3 | Asa Ware | 7-25-1942 | spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | asa | spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | |||||
Interview about storytelling, his biography, Bud Doggett, and tough guys | 6630A4 | Alan Lomax, Asa Ware | 7-25-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | Discussion of learning the preceding story from a Walter Hutton, storytelling style, his own biography, the late plantation manager Bud Doggett, tough guys (including a Jack Devil). | lomax asa | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | ||||
[Blank] | 6631A1 | N/A | 7-25-1942 | N/A | N/A | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | The LC Recording Lab identifies four separate bands before the music begins on this disc side. They are here condensed into one for the purposes of this catalog. | n-a | n-a | n-a | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | ||||
Mr. Bear and Mr. Rabbit (#1) | 6631A2 | Asa Ware | 7-25-1942 | spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | asa | spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | |||||
Mr. Bear and Mr. Rabbit (#2) | 6631A3 | Asa Ware | 7-25-1942 | spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | Followed by discussion of animal stories. | asa | spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | ||||
Three Sons Look for Their Fortune | 6631A4 | Asa Ware | 7-25-1942 | spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | asa | spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | |||||
The Woman Who Never Had No Man | 6631A5 | Asa Ware | 7-25-1942 | spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | asa | spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | |||||
Get Up In the Morning Soon (fragment) | 6631A6 | Asa Ware | 7-25-1942 | Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy | lyric song, reel | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | asa | lyric-song reel | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | ||||
Get Up In the Morning Soon | 6631A7 | Asa Ware | 7-25-1942 | lyric song, reel | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | asa | lyric-song reel | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | |||||
Casey Jones | 6631A8 | Asa Ware | 7-25-1942 | lyric song, reel | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | asa | lyric-song reel | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | |||||
Levee camp song (#1) | 6631B1 | Asa Ware | 7-25-1942 | holler | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | asa | holler | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | |||||
Toast on Mr. Chatmon and Bud Doggett | 6631B2 | Will Starks | 7-25-1942 | spoken, toast | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | Identified as “Toast on Bud Doggett,” but the toast – which Starks attributes to Howard Spann – has more to do with a Mr. Chatmon’s breaking up moonshining operations. | willstarks | spoken toast | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | ||||
The Preacher and the Deacon's Wife | 6631B3 | Asa Ware | 7-25-1942 | spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | asa | spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | |||||
Levee camp song (#2) | 6631B4 | Asa Ware | 7-25-1942 | holler | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | asa | holler | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | |||||
Levee camp song (#3) | 6631B5 | Asa Ware | 7-25-1942 | holler | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | asa | holler | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | |||||
The Devil Counts Souls In the Graveyard | 6631B6 | Asa Ware | 7-25-1942 | spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | asa | spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | |||||
[Blank] | 6632A1 | N/A | 7-25-1942 | N/A | N/A | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | n-a | n-a | n-a | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | |||||
Man Runs Away from the Gunshot | 6632A2 | Asa Ware | 7-25-1942 | joke, spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | SC to -0.75 / 95.9% | asa | joke spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | ||||
The Lawyer, the Bookkeeper, and the Tramp Go to Mary | 6632A3 | Asa Ware | 7-25-1942 | joke, spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | SC to -0.75 / 95.9% | asa | joke spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | ||||
The Chicken Stealin' Man | 6632A4 | Asa Ware | 7-25-1942 | joke, spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | SC to -0.75 / 95.9% | asa | joke spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | ||||
[Blank] | 6632A5 | N/A | 7-25-1942 | N/A | N/A | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | n-a | n-a | n-a | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | |||||
[Blank] | 6632A6 | N/A | 7-25-1942 | N/A | N/A | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | n-a | n-a | n-a | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | |||||
The Queen of Africa (#1) | 6632A7 | O.C. King | 7-25-1942 | joke, spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | Possibly so entitled to obscure the bawdy content – there is no mention of Africa in the story. | SC to -0.75 / 95.9% | king | joke spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | |||
Shine and the Titanic (#1) | 6632A8 | O.C. King | 7-25-1942 | spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | SC to -0.75 / 95.9% | king | spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | ||||
[Blank] | 6632A9 | N/A | 7-25-1942 | N/A | N/A | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | The LC Recording Lab identifies three separate bands concluding this disc side. They are here condensed into one for the purposes of this catalog. | n-a | n-a | n-a | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | ||||
The Queen of Africa (#2) | 6632B1 | O.C. King | 7-25-1942 | joke, spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | Possibly so entitled to obscure the bawdy content – there is no mention of Africa in the story. | SC to -0.75 / 95.9% | king | joke spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | |||
Shine and the Titanic (#2) | 6632B2 | O.C. King | 7-25-1942 | spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | Following the recitation, King gives his age as 28 and says he lives nearby. | SC to -0.75 / 95.9% | king | spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | |||
[Blank] | 6632B3 | N/A | 7-25-1942 | N/A | N/A | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | n-a | n-a | n-a | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | |||||
Toast about preachers | 6632B4 | O.C. King | 7-25-1942 | spoken, toast | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | Identified on AFS card as “Preacher and the Lady.” | SC to -0.75 / 95.9% | king | spoken toast | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | |||
The Railroad Men Go to Town | 6632B5 | Will Starks | 7-25-1942 | joke, spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | SC to -0.75 / 95.9% | willstarks | joke spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | ||||
The Animals Have A Convention | 6632B6 | Will Starks | 7-25-1942 | joke, spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | SC to -0.75 / 95.9% | willstarks | joke spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | ||||
The Lady Washing at the Spring | 6632B7 | Will Starks | 7-25-1942 | joke, spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | SC to -0.75 / 95.9% | willstarks | joke spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | ||||
Stewball | 6632B8 | Will Starks | 7-25-1942 | Skewball | ballad | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | Lomax volunteers verses that Starks doesn’t know. Followed by discussion of his father singing and fiddling the song; Lomax fishes for “Barbara Allen” and “Frankie and Albert.” | SC to -0.75 / 95.9% | willstarks | ballad | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | ||
Frankie and Albert (#1) | 6633A1 | Will Starks | 7-25-1942 | ballad | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | Starks says he learned this on a sawmill job in 1910. | SC to -0.76 / 95.6% | willstarks | ballad | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | |||
Frankie and Albert (#2) | 6633A2 | Will Starks | 7-25-1942 | ballad | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of "Buck Asa" (Ulisses Jefferson), Hopson Plantation | willstarks | ballad | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | buck hopson | |||||
[Blank] | 6633A3 | N/A | 7-26-1942 | N/A | N/A | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | Badly cut grooves. | n-a | n-a | n-a | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | ||||
Where I Shall Wear the Golden Crown | 6633A4 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. John McGhee | 7-26-1942 | hymn, sacred song | guitar, tamborine, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | cogic revmcghee | hymn sacred-song | guitar tamborine vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | |||||
Opening prayer | 6633A5 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. McGhee | 7-26-1942 | sacred song, spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | The congregation moans and shouts responses while Rev. McGhee offers the prayer. | cogic rev-mcghee | sacred-song spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | ||||
Do Remember Me | 6633B1 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. John McGhee | 7-26-1942 | hymn, sacred song | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | cogic revmcghee | hymn sacred-song | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | |||||
Preaching / Bible reading (Hebrews 13:12) | 6633B2 | Rev. McGhee, Unidentified woman | 7-26-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | rev-mcghee uwoman | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | |||||
I'll Live On / Testimony | 6633B3 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. McGhee | 7-26-1942 | hymn, sacred song | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | Interspersed with an unidentified woman’s testimony. | cogic rev-mcghee | hymn sacred-song | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | ||||
Testimonies | 6633B4 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. John McGhee | 7-26-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | cogic revmcghee | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | |||||
I'm Pressing On | 6633B5 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. John McGhee | 7-26-1942 | hymn, sacred song | guitar, tamborine, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | cogic revmcghee | hymn sacred-song | guitar tamborine vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | |||||
Testimony | 6633B6 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. John McGhee | 7-26-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | cogic revmcghee | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | |||||
Every Hour I'm With You / Testimonies | 6633B7 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. McGhee, Unidentified woman | 7-26-1942 | hymn, sacred song | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | cogic rev-mcghee uwoman | hymn sacred-song | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | |||||
Jesus Is My Friend | 6633B8 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. John McGhee | 7-26-1942 | spoken | guitar, tamborine, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | cogic revmcghee | spoken | guitar tamborine vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | |||||
With Angels Climbing the Golden Stairs | 6633B9 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. McGhee | 7-26-1942 | hymn, sacred song | guitar, tamborine, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | cogic rev-mcghee | hymn sacred-song | guitar tamborine vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | |||||
I Got A New World In My View | 6634A1 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. John McGhee, Unidentified woman | 7-26-1942 | hymn, sacred song | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | Identified on card as “I Got A Heaven In My View.” | Severe speed fluctuation. | cogic revmcghee uwoman | hymn sacred-song | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | |||
| Testimony | 6634A2 | Unidentified woman | 7-26-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | Severe speed fluctuation. | uwoman | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | |||
I Got A Heaven In My View | 6634A3 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. John McGhee | 7-26-1942 | hymn, sacred song | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | Severe speed fluctuation. | cogic revmcghee | hymn sacred-song | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | ||||
If You Put Your Trust In Jesus, Everything Will Be All Right | 6634A4 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. John McGhee | 7-26-1942 | hymn, sacred song | clapping, guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | Severe speed fluctuation. | cogic revmcghee | hymn sacred-song | clapping guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | ||||
| Testimony | 6634A5 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. John McGhee | 7-26-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | Severe speed fluctuation. | cogic revmcghee | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | |||
Sermon | 6634A6 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Unidentified pastor | 7-26-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | Speaker is unindentified past his being a visiting pastor. | Severe speed fluctuation. | cogic unidentified-pastor | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | |||
[Blank] | 6634B1 | N/A | 7-26-1942 | N/A | N/A | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | n-a | n-a | n-a | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | |||||
[Blank] | 6634B2 | N/A | 7-26-1942 | N/A | N/A | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | n-a | n-a | n-a | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | |||||
Sacramental sermon | 6634B3 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. John McGhee | 7-26-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | Combined of six separate fragmentary bands. | cogic revmcghee | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | ||||
At the Cross | 6634B4 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. John McGhee | 7-26-1942 | hymn, sacred song | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | cogic revmcghee | hymn sacred-song | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | |||||
Yea, Lord (part 1) | 6634B5 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. John McGhee | 7-26-1942 | hymn, sacred song | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | cogic revmcghee | hymn sacred-song | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | |||||
Yea, Lord (part 2) | 6635A1 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. John McGhee | 7-26-1942 | hymn, sacred song | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | cogic revmcghee | hymn sacred-song | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | |||||
Sacramental text | 6635A2 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. John McGhee | 7-26-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | Identified as such on AFS card. Used here to differentiate it from 6634A6, “Sacramental sermon.” | cogic revmcghee | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | ||||
The Blood Has Made Me Whole | 6635A3 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. John McGhee | 7-26-1942 | hymn, sacred song | guitar, tamborine, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | Identified as “The Blood Have Made Me Whole” on AFS card. | cogic revmcghee | hymn sacred-song | guitar tamborine vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | ||||
[Blank] | 6635B1 | N/A | 7-26-1942 | N/A | N/A | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | n-a | n-a | n-a | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | |||||
Prayer | 6635B2 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. John McGhee | 7-26-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | cogic revmcghee | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | |||||
Yea, Lord | 6635B3 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. McGhee | 7-26-1942 | hymn, sacred song | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | Y/ | cogic rev-mcghee | hymn sacred-song | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | ||||
Praise Him | 6635B4 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. McGhee | 7-26-1942 | hymn, sacred song | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | Y/ | cogic rev-mcghee | hymn sacred-song | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | ||||
I'm Running for My Life | 6635B5 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. John McGhee | 7-26-1942 | hymn, sacred song | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | Fragment at top of track is likely a transfer false start. | cogic revmcghee | hymn sacred-song | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | ||||
Sermon on foot-washing (part 1) | 6635B6 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. John McGhee | 7-26-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | cogic revmcghee | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | |||||
Sermon on foot-washing (part 2) | 6636A1 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. John McGhee | 7-26-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | Remarks by an unidentified elder follow Rev. McGhee’s sermon. | cogic revmcghee | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | ||||
He Never Said A Mumbling Word | 6636A2 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. McGhee | 7-26-1942 | hymn, sacred song | guitar, tamborine, trombone, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | Followed by ambience and machine hum. | Y/ | cogic rev-mcghee | hymn sacred-song | guitar tamborine trombone vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | |||
Sweeter As the Years Go By | 6636A3 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. John McGhee | 7-26-1942 | hymn, sacred song | guitar, tamborine, trombone, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | Identified as “Peter, As the Years Go By” on AFS card. | Machine hum toward band end. | cogic revmcghee | hymn sacred-song | guitar tamborine trombone vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | |||
Heaven's Going to Be My Home | 6636B1 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. John McGhee | 7-26-1942 | hymn, sacred song | guitar, tamborine, trombone, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | Marred by speed fluctuation and machine noise. | cogic revmcghee | hymn sacred-song | guitar tamborine trombone vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | ||||
Just Like Heaven to Me | 6636B2 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. McGhee | 7-26-1942 | hymn, sacred song | guitar, tamborine, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | Preceded by a minute of blank disc. | Y/ | cogic rev-mcghee | hymn sacred-song | guitar tamborine vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | |||
Running Up the Shiny Way | 6636B3 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. McGhee | 7-26-1942 | hymn, sacred song | guitar, tamborine, trombone, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | cogic rev-mcghee | hymn sacred-song | guitar tamborine trombone vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | |||||
I'm A Soldier In the Army of the Lord | 6637A1 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. John McGhee | 7-26-1942 | hymn, sacred song | guitar, tamborine, trombone, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | cogic revmcghee | hymn sacred-song | guitar tamborine trombone vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | |||||
Worship service: lighting the offering | 6637A2 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. McGhee | 7-26-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | Identified as “Lighting the offering” in AFS catalog. Ambience includes sounds of worshipper “getting happy” and a guitar strumming. | cogic rev-mcghee | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | ||||
I Claim Jesus First of All | 6637A3 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. McGhee | 7-26-1942 | hymn, sacred song | guitar, tamborine, trombone, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | Identified as “Every Little Talk With Jesus Makes It Right” in AFS catalog. | Y/ | cogic rev-mcghee | hymn sacred-song | guitar tamborine trombone vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | |||
Just A Little Talk With Jesus | 6637A4 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. McGhee | 7-26-1942 | hymn, sacred song | guitar, tamborine, trombone, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | http://Y (fades out)/ | cogic rev-mcghee | hymn sacred-song | guitar tamborine trombone vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | ||||
Jesus Is My Everything (part 1) | 6637B1 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. John McGhee | 7-26-1942 | hymn, sacred song | clapping, guitar, trombone, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | cogic revmcghee | hymn sacred-song | clapping guitar trombone vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | |||||
Jesus Is My Everything (part 2) | 6637B2 | Church of God In Christ congregation, Rev. John McGhee | 7-26-1942 | hymn, sacred song | clapping, guitar, trombone, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Church of God in Christ | cogic revmcghee | hymn sacred-song | clapping guitar trombone vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | cogic | |||||
Just A Closer Walk With Thee | 6637B3 | Millie Lee Whitehead, Unidentified | 7-25-1942 | hymn, sacred song | piano, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | whitehead unidentified | hymn sacred-song | piano vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | silent | |||||
Until I Found the Lord | 6637B4 | Millie Lee Whitehead, Unidentified | 7-25-1942 | hymn, sacred song | piano, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | whitehead unidentified | hymn sacred-song | piano vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | silent | |||||
The Usher | 6637B5 | Ella Mae Williams | 7-25-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | A recitation of a paean to church ushers. (It sounds like “Dunbar” is credited with the poem in the introduction, but it is not a P.L. Dunbar composition.) | williamsem | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | silent | ||||
Sending Up My Timber | 6637B6 | Millie Lee Whitehead, Unidentified | 7-25-1942 | hymn, sacred song | piano, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | Partial performance. | whitehead unidentified | hymn sacred-song | piano vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | silent | ||||
You Just Sing for Jesus | 6638A1 | Effie Harris, Unidentified men | 7-25-1942 | sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | [Skip at 1:20] | effie umen | sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | silent | ||||
My Lawd So High You Can't Go Over Him | 6638A2 | Baker T. Garner, John Skipper, Unidentified men | 7-25-1942 | You Must Come in at the Door | sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | Title given is that on AFS card. | [Beginning marred by skips/] | garner skipper umen | sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | silent | ||
Walk Around (fragment) | 6638A3 | Baker T. Garner, John Skipper, Unidentified men | 7-25-1942 | sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | garner skipper umen | sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | silent | |||||
Please Don't Drive Me Away | 6638A4 | Baker T. Garner, Bozie Sturdivant, John Skipper, Unidentified men | 7-25-1942 | sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | garner sturdivant skipper umen | sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | silent | |||||
[Blank] | 6638B1 | N/A | 7-26-1942 | N/A | N/A | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | n-a | n-a | n-a | clarksdale | coahoma | silent | |||||
Christ My Lord Is Coming Soon | 6638B2 | Baker T. Garner, John Skipper, Unidentified men | 7-25-1942 | sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | http://YES AMAZING/ | garner skipper umen | sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | silent | ||||
Jesus Knows | 6638B3 | Connie Barmore, Unidentified | 7-25-1942 | hymn, sacred song | piano, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | barmore unidentified | hymn sacred-song | piano vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | silent | |||||
Precious Lord | 6639A1 | Effie Harris, Unidentified men | 7-25-1942 | hymn, sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | effie umen | hymn sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | silent | |||||
I'm Toiling, Lord (#1) | 6639A2 | Baker T. Garner, John Skipper, Unidentified men | 7-25-1942 | sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | Identified on AFS card as “Through the Years We Keep On Toiling.” Another take recorded presumably after audience program on 6640A3. | garner skipper umen | sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | silent | ||||
Holy Baby | 6639A3 | Baker T. Garner, John Skipper, Unidentified men | 7-25-1942 | Christmas song, sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | Introduction by (presumably) the quartet’s leader Baker T. Garner, noting the song as a request and calling it the “hardest song that ever was, nearly.” | garner skipper umen | christmas-song sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | silent | ||||
Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down | 6639B1 | Bozie Sturdivant, Silent Grove Baptist Church congregation | 7-25-1942 | sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | sturdivant silent | sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | silent | |||||
When I've Done the Best I Can, I Want My Crown | 6639B2 | Bozie Sturdivant, Silent Grove Baptist Church congregation | 7-25-1942 | sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | sturdivant silent | sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | silent | |||||
There's A King of Kings Somewhere | 6640A1 | Mrs. Bennie Knowles, Unidentified | 7-25-1942 | hymn, sacred song | piano, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | knowles unidentified | hymn sacred-song | piano vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | silent | |||||
A Charge to Keep I Have | 6640A2 | Baker T. Garner, John Skipper, Unidentified men | 7-25-1942 | hymn, sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | garner skipper umen | hymn sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | silent | |||||
I'm Toiling, Lord (#2) | 6640A3 | Baker T. Garner, John Skipper, Unidentified men | 7-25-1942 | sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | garner skipper umen | sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | silent | |||||
My Mind Done Changed (#1) | 6640B1 | Alec Robertson | 7-28-1942 | sacred song, shout | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Followed by discussion of where he learned song and its meaning. | Two minutes of blank disc precede performance. | robertson | sacred-song shout | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||
Katy, I Got To Go (To Judgment) | 6640B2 | Alec Robertson | 7-28-1942 | sacred song, shout | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Followed by discussion of song, sung at old-time Baptist prayer meetings. | robertson | sacred-song shout | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Rock, Daniel (#1) | 6640B3 | Alec Robertson | 7-28-1942 | sacred song, shout | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Followed by discussion of shouting. | robertson | sacred-song shout | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Rock, Daniel (#2) | 6641A1 | Alec Robertson | 7-28-1942 | sacred song, shout | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Preceded by empty disc and brief announcement of Robertson’s age (75). This performance is not listed in the AFS catalog, which identifies the following song as 6641A1. | robertson | sacred-song shout | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Run, Sinner, Run | 6641A2 | Alec Robertson | 7-28-1942 | sacred song, shout | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | robertson | sacred-song shout | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||||
There'll Be Preaching Tonight (On the Old Campground) | 6641A3 | Alec Robertson | 7-28-1942 | sacred song, shout | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | robertson | sacred-song shout | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||||
Outshine the Sun | 6641A4 | Alec Robertson | 7-28-1942 | Beulah Land | sacred song, shout | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | robertson | sacred-song shout | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
On the Other Side of Jordan | 6641A5 | Alec Robertson | 7-28-1942 | sacred song, shout | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Sound is severely intermittent. | robertson | sacred-song shout | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
The Chariot Jubilee | 6641A6 | Alec Robertson | 7-28-1942 | sacred song, shout | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | robertson | sacred-song shout | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||||
The Band In Gideon | 6641A7 | Alec Robertson | 7-28-1942 | sacred song, shout | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Followed by discussion of song’s origins and setting, and shouts. | robertson | sacred-song shout | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Hallelujah! | 6641A8 | Alec Robertson | 7-28-1942 | sacred song, shout | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Title is that given by Robertson following song. Refrain: “When the war shall be ended / I’m a soldier of the cross.” | robertson | sacred-song shout | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Keep Inching Along | 6641A9 | Alec Robertson, Unidentified man | 7-28-1942 | sacred song, shout | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | robertson uman | sacred-song shout | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||||
Tell Me How Long Has the Train Been Gone | 6641B1 | Alec Robertson | 7-28-1942 | sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Followed by discussion of song and its composition (by Robertson). | robertson | sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Discussion of coon songs | 6641B2 | Alec Robertson | 7-28-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | A separate band on the disc, although not identified as one in AFS cards. Brief discussion of his coon-song repertoire and Lomax’s explanation that the discs aren’t being created for broadcast but for study. | robertson | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Make Cindy Behave Herself | 6641B3 | Alec Robertson | 7-28-1942 | coon song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Identified as “Cindy” on AFS card (and likely by Robertson). [See Lomax’s 1959 recording of Sid Hemphill’s “Make Lula Behave Herself” for an ancillary.] | robertson | coon-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Discussion of square dance tunes and calls | 6641B4 | Alec Robertson | 7-28-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | robertson | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||||
That's What's the Matter With the Church Today | 6642A1 | Alec Robertson | 7-28-1942 | sacred song | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | robertson | sacred-song | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||||
Clear the Line Before You Call | 6642A2 | Alec Robertson | 7-28-1942 | sacred song | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | robertson | sacred-song | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||||
My Mind Done Changed (#2) | 6642A3 | Alec Robertson | 7-28-1942 | sacred song | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | robertson | sacred-song | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||||
Discussion of getting religion; sinful habits; playing music, gambling, and fights at dances. | 6642A4 | Alec Robertson | 7-28-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Robertson recounts his sinful behavior before “finding holiness,” and playing music with his band at the house at the Hill plantation. Discussion of differences between white and black dances; gambling, fights, and music at both. Trouble (“shooting spree”) he got into in St. Louis. | robertson | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Hard Time in Blue Eagle Jail | 6642B1 | Alec Robertson | 7-28-1942 | lyric song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Robertson said this was “made up on the railroad.” | robertson | lyric-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
John Henry | 6642B2 | Alec Robertson | 7-28-1942 | lyric song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Lomax asks for other railroad songs; Robertson recites a fragment of John Henry and hums the melody. | robertson | lyric-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Talk on recording / machine set-up | 6642B3 | Alan Lomax, Annie Williams | 7-28-1942 | spoken | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | Lomax and Williams discuss what she’s going to sing; he cautions against walking across the floor while the disc is being cut. | lomax anniew | spoken | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | ||||
Don't Care Where You Bury My Body | 6642B4 | Annie Williams | 7-28-1942 | sacred song | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | Ms. Williams says she learned the song from her grandmother. She sings a fragment of “Glory, Glory, Hallelujah” that she heard from her. Discusses hearing her first hymn, “Am I Born to Die,” at age five from her aunt. | anniew | sacred-song | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | ||||
Interview about Don't Care Where You Bury My Body / Glory, Glory, Hallelujah | 6642B5 | Alan Lomax, Annie Williams | 7-28-1942 | hymn, sacred song, spoken | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | lomax anniew | hymn sacred-song spoken | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | |||||
Am I Born to Die | 6642B6 | Annie Williams | 7-28-1942 | lining hymn, sacred song | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | anniew | lining-hymn sacred-song | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | |||||
Interview about her family singing, praying, and shouting | 6642B7 | Alan Lomax, Annie Williams | 7-28-1942 | spoken | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | Ms. Williams discusses the various ways of getting happy and being moved by the spirit. She then addresses some younger visitors, telling them they can come back and perform song ring plays and reels for Lomax and Jones. | lomax anniew | spoken | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | ||||
There Is A Fountain Filled With Blood | 6642B8 | Annie Williams | 7-28-1942 | lining hymn, sacred song | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | anniew | lining-hymn sacred-song | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | |||||
Interview about Watts hymns (lining hymns), education, and old songs | 6643A1 | Alan Lomax, Annie Williams | 7-28-1942 | spoken | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | Ms. Williams discusses her family’s singing – both jubilee and Watts hymns – and her education and that of her children. She sings fragments of “Rock Daniel,” “Chariot’s Coming (Jubilee),” “Mockingbird.” | lomax anniew | spoken | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | ||||
Free At Last | 6643A2 | Annie Williams | 7-28-1942 | sacred song | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | anniew | sacred-song | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | |||||
You Don't Believe I'm A Child of God | 6643A3 | Annie Williams | 7-28-1942 | sacred song | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | The accompanying voices are presumably of her younger family members present. | anniew | sacred-song | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | ||||
Don't Grieve After Me | 6643A4 | Annie Williams | 7-28-1942 | sacred song | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | anniew | sacred-song | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | |||||
Chicka Ma, Chicka Ma, Caney Crow / Billy Boy | 6643B1 | Willie Moss | 7-28-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | Brief discussion follows. | moss | game-song play-song | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | ||||
Ain't Gonna Rain No More (#1) | 6643B2 | Willie Moss | 7-28-1942 | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | Brief discussion follows. Identified on AFS card as “Taint Gonna Rain No Mo’.” | moss | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | ||||||
When the Saints Go Marching In | 6643B3 | Willie Moss | 7-28-1942 | sacred song | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | moss | sacred-song | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | |||||
Sunday Morning Band | 6643B4 | Willie Moss | 7-28-1942 | sacred song | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | moss | sacred-song | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | |||||
Never Said A Mumblin' Word | 6643B5 | Willie Moss | 7-28-1942 | sacred song | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | moss | sacred-song | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | |||||
Mary Mack | 6643B6 | Alice Austin, Dorothy Mae Woods, Emma Jane Davis, Florence Mason | 7-28-1942 | game song, play song | clapping, vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | Demonstration of game follows. | austin woodsd davisej mason | game-song play-song | clapping vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | ||||
I'm A Funny Little Dutch Girl | 6643B7 | Alice Austin, Dorothy Mae Woods, Emma Jane Davis, Florence Mason | 7-28-1942 | game song, play song | clapping, vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | Mason sings the song unaccompanied then demonstrates the game. | austin woodsd davisej mason | game-song play-song | clapping vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | ||||
Chicka Ma, Chicka Ma, Caney Crow | 6643B8 | Alice Austin, Dorothy Mae Woods, Emma Jane Davis, Florence Mason | 7-28-1942 | game song, play song | clapping, vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | austin woodsd davisej mason | game-song play-song | clapping vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | |||||
Shortenin' Bread (#1) | 6644A1 | Alice Austin, Dorothy Mae Woods, Emma Jane Davis, Florence Mason | 7-28-1942 | game song, play song | clapping, vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | austin woodsd davisej mason | game-song play-song | clapping vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | |||||
Mister Frog Went A-Courtin' (#1) | 6644A2 | Alice Austin, Dorothy Mae Woods, Emma Jane Davis, Florence Mason | 7-28-1942 | Froggie Went A-Courtin' | game song, play song | clapping, vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | austin woodsd davisej mason | game-song play-song | clapping vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | ||||
Sally Go Round the Sunshine | 6644A3 | Alice Austin, Dorothy Mae Woods, Emma Jane Davis, Florence Mason | 7-28-1942 | game song, play song | clapping, vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | austin woodsd davisej mason | game-song play-song | clapping vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | |||||
Little Sally Walker | 6644A4 | Alice Austin, Dorothy Mae Woods, Emma Jane Davis, Florence Mason | 7-28-1942 | game song, play song | clapping, vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | austin woodsd davisej mason | game-song play-song | clapping vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | |||||
Pullin' the Skiff | 6644A5 | Alice Austin, Dorothy Mae Woods, Emma Jane Davis, Florence Mason | 7-28-1942 | game song, play song | clapping, vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | austin woodsd davisej mason | game-song play-song | clapping vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | |||||
Rock Daniel | 6644A6 | Mrs. Mason | 7-28-1942 | sacred song, shout | clapping, vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | First name unknown. | mrsmason | sacred-song shout | clapping vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | ||||
What A Time (Shout for Joy) / Interview about shouting, the sanctified church, and singing at work | 6644A7 | Anne Williams, John Cameron | 7-28-1942 | sacred song, shout | clapping, vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | Followed by discussion (with John Cameron) about shouting and getting happy in church. Lomax attempts to coax Ms. Williams to talk about the sanctified church, the “new religion,” but she doesn’t recognize it as such. Discussion continues about singing at work and cotton picking. | annew cameron | sacred-song shout | clapping vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | ||||
All Night Long | 6644B1 | Annie Williams | 7-28-1942 | sacred song | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | Ms. Williams tells Lomax this song is a “hally” (hallelujah). “Shout if you want on it. Pat your hands on it.” | anniew | sacred-song | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | ||||
Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground | 6644B2 | Annie Williams, John Cameron | 7-28-1942 | lining hymn, sacred song | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | Others join in halfway through the singing. “Assisted in prayer by Sister Williams,” Cameron jokes at the end. | anniew cameron | lining-hymn sacred-song | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | ||||
Satisfy (#1) | 6644B3 | Alice Austin, Dorothy Mae Woods, Emma Jane Davis, Florence Mason, Florence Stamp | 7-28-1942 | Satisfied | game song, play song | clapping, vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | austin woodsd davisej mason stamp | game-song play-song | clapping vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | ||||
Frairs Point Victory Song | 6644B4 | Alice Austin, Dorothy Mae Woods, Emma Jane Davis, Florence Mason, Florence Stamp | 7-28-1942 | fight song | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | Presumably the fight song from a local high school. | austin woodsd davisej mason stamp | fight-song | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | ||||
Ice Cream, Soda Water | 6644B5 | Alice Austin, Dorothy Mae Woods, Emma Jane Davis, Florence Mason, Florence Stamp | 7-28-1942 | game song, play song | clapping, vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | austin woodsd davisej mason stamp | game-song play-song | clapping vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | |||||
Milk, Milk | 6644B6 | Alice Austin, Dorothy Mae Woods, Emma Jane Davis, Florence Mason, Florence Stamp | 7-28-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | Likely other girls are involved who were unidentified. (A Ruby is addressed before the singing.) | austin woodsd davisej mason stamp | game-song play-song | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | ||||
Hide and Go Seek | 6645A1 | Dorothy Mae Woods, Emma Jane Davis, Flora L. Standefer, Florence Mason, Ruby L. Stamp | 7-28-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | Identified on AFS card as “Hiding Go Seek.” This band includes several hide-and-seek counting-off rhymes, as well as a “poem” (“Hush Little T-Model, Don’t You Cry). Each of the girls introduces herself before their recitation. | woodsd davisej flora mason rubystamp | game-song play-song | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | ||||
Counting-out rhymes | 6645A2 | Dorothy Mae Woods, Emma Jane Davis, Flora L. Standefer | 7-28-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | Identified on AFS card as “Hiding Go Seek.” These are counting-off/counting-out rhymes: “Cornbread Rough,” “Engine, Engine Number 9,” “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” | woodsd davisej flora | game-song play-song | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | ||||
One Potato, Two / Hickory Dickory Dock | 6645A3 | Florence Mason, Ruby L. Stamp | 7-28-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | Identified on AFS card as “Hiding Go Seek.” | mason rubystamp | game-song play-song | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | ||||
Come On Boys, Let's Go to Hunting (It Don't Suit Me) | 6645A4 | Dorothy Mae Woods, Emma Jane Davis, Flora L. Standefer, Florence Mason, Florence Stamp, Ruby L. Stamp | 7-28-1942 | lyric song | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | Followed by explanation of song, and presumably the source, last name Walker. Identified on AFS card as “a local parody” (of “It Just Suits Me”). | woodsd davisej flora mason stamp rubystamp | lyric-song | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | ||||
Jump, Mister Rabbit | 6645A5 | Dorothy Mae Woods, Flora L. Standefer, Florence Mason, Florence Stamp, Ruby L. Stamp | 7-28-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | Title given is that on AFS card. Girls sing “Jump up the rabbit.” | woodsd flora mason stamp rubystamp | game-song play-song | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | ||||
Mister Frog Went A-Courtin' (#2) | 6645A6 | Dorothy Mae Woods, Flora L. Standefer, Florence Mason, Florence Stamp, Ruby L. Stamp | 7-28-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | woodsd flora mason stamp rubystamp | game-song play-song | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | |||||
Doctor, Doctor Can You Tell (Mister Frog Went A-Courtin' In a Haystack) | 6645A7 | Dorothy Mae Woods, Flora L. Standefer, Florence Mason, Florence Stamp, Ruby L. Stamp | 7-28-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | woodsd flora mason stamp rubystamp | game-song play-song | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | |||||
Satisfy (#2) | 6645A8 | Dorothy Mae Woods, Flora L. Standefer, Florence Mason, Florence Stamp, Ruby L. Stamp | 7-28-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Friars Point | Coahoma | Mississippi | at the home of Annie Williams | woodsd flora mason stamp rubystamp | game-song play-song | vocal | friars-point | coahoma | annie | |||||
Interview about roustabouting, roustabout songs, and steamboating reminiscences | 6645B1 | Alan Lomax, John Cameron | 7-28-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Includes snippets of several roustabouts’ songs and reminiscences of working on the river, a race between the Katy Adams and Jim Lee, and Friars Point in the steamboat era. “One of the finest towns for a colored person to make his living… if you can make your living here and you don’t bother nobody, and stay in your place, nobody gonna bother you.” | lomax cameron | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Worried Life Blues | 6645B2 | Millie Lee Whitehead, Tommy (Jaybird) Jones | 7-28-1942 | blues | piano, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | whitehead tjaybird | blues | piano vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||||
The Mulberry Bush | 6646A1 | Unidentified children | 8-4-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Sherard | Coahoma | Mississippi | Severe speed fluctiation. | unidentified-children | game-song play-song | vocal | sherard | coahoma | ||||||
Talk/ambience | 6646A2 | Lewis (Belly) Bell | 8-4-1942 | spoken | vocal | Sherard | Coahoma | Mississippi | belly | spoken | vocal | sherard | coahoma | |||||||
Levee camp holler (#2) | 6646A3 | Lewis (Belly) Bell | 8-4-1942 | holler | vocal | Sherard | Coahoma | Mississippi | Identified on AFS card with first line: “Got Me ‘Cused of ‘Forgin’.” Followed by interview with Lewis Jones about song, which he first heard in a levee camp in Arkansas. | belly | holler | vocal | sherard | coahoma | ||||||
Levee camp (muleskinner) holler | 6646A4 | Lewis (Belly) Bell | 8-4-1942 | holler | vocal | Sherard | Coahoma | Mississippi | Marred by skips. | belly | holler | vocal | sherard | coahoma | ||||||
Toast (fragment) | 6646A5 | Lewis (Belly) Bell | 8-4-1942 | toast | vocal | Sherard | Coahoma | Mississippi | Marred by skips. | belly | toast | vocal | sherard | coahoma | ||||||
[Blank] | 6646B1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Sherard | Coahoma | Mississippi | n-a | n-a | n-a | sherard | coahoma | ||||||||
Toast (You Shall Be Free) (part 1) | 6646B2 | Lewis (Belly) Bell | 8-4-1942 | toast | vocal | Sherard | Coahoma | Mississippi | belly | toast | vocal | sherard | coahoma | |||||||
Toast (You Shall Be Free) (part 2) | 6646B3 | Lewis (Belly) Bell | 8-4-1942 | toast | vocal | Sherard | Coahoma | Mississippi | belly | toast | vocal | sherard | coahoma | |||||||
T.P. Running, Smokestack Drag the Ground | 6646B4 | Lewis (Belly) Bell | 8-4-1942 | holler | vocal | Sherard | Coahoma | Mississippi | belly | holler | vocal | sherard | coahoma | |||||||
Unidentified holler | 6646B5 | Lewis (Belly) Bell | 8-4-1942 | holler | vocal | Sherard | Coahoma | Mississippi | belly | holler | vocal | sherard | coahoma | |||||||
Hey, Hey Captain (Levee camp holler) (part 1) | 6646B6 | William Henderson | 8-4-1942 | holler | vocal | Sherard | Coahoma | Mississippi | Y/ | willhenderson | holler | vocal | sherard | coahoma | ||||||
Hey, Hey Captain (Levee camp holler) (part 2) | 6646B7 | William Henderson | 8-4-1942 | holler | vocal | Sherard | Coahoma | Mississippi | willhenderson | holler | vocal | sherard | coahoma | |||||||
Levee camp holler (#2) | 6647A1 | Lewis (Belly) Bell | 8-4-1942 | holler | vocal | Sherard | Coahoma | Mississippi | Followed by extended stretch of blank disc. | belly | holler | vocal | sherard | coahoma | ||||||
Toast on Sonny Simms | 6647A2 | Lewis (Belly) Bell | 8-4-1942 | toast | vocal | Sherard | Coahoma | Mississippi | belly | toast | vocal | sherard | coahoma | |||||||
Toast on Hitler | 6647A3 | Lewis (Belly) Bell | 8-4-1942 | toast | vocal | Sherard | Coahoma | Mississippi | belly | toast | vocal | sherard | coahoma | |||||||
Toasts (part 1) | 6647A4 | Lewis (Belly) Bell, Unidentified men | 8-4-1942 | toast | vocal | Sherard | Coahoma | Mississippi | Vulgar toasts, primarily about crab lice (including one on the NRA [National Recovery Act]). | belly umen | toast | vocal | sherard | coahoma | ||||||
Toasts (part 2) | 6647A5 | Lewis (Belly) Bell, Unidentified men | 8-4-1942 | toast | vocal | Sherard | Coahoma | Mississippi | belly umen | toast | vocal | sherard | coahoma | |||||||
Unloading steel from cars | 6647B1 | Houston Bacon | 8-8-1942 | work song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Delta Tourist Camp | Followed by Lomax interview about “chunk[ing] iron” in advance of laying track. Identified by Lomax as the Delta Tourist Camp (suggested by Chris Smith to be the Delta Tourist Courts • 1600 N. State St. in Clarksdale) | bacon | work-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | tourist | ||||
Interview fragment/ambience | 6647B2 | Houston Bacon | 8-8-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Delta Tourist Camp | Fragment of the preceding interview amidst ambience (including the pouring of a drink and two burps). Identified by Lomax as the Delta Tourist Camp (suggested by Chris Smith to be the Delta Tourist Courts • 1600 N. State St. in Clarksdale) | bacon | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | tourist | ||||
Sinking rails and joining iron | 6647B3 | Elias Boykin, Houston Bacon | 8-8-1942 | work song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Delta Tourist Camp | Followed by discussion of track-laying. Identified by Lomax as the Delta Tourist Camp (suggested by Chris Smith to be the Delta Tourist Courts • 1600 N. State St. in Clarksdale) | boykin bacon | work-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | tourist | ||||
Spiking down | 6648A1 | Houston Bacon | 8-8-1942 | spoken | percussion, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Delta Tourist Camp | Reenactment of spiking railroad ties with fragments of work song and reminiscences about various characters on the crew. Bacon keeps time by striking a tie. Identified by Lomax as the Delta Tourist Camp (suggested by Chris Smith to be the Delta Tourist Courts • 1600 N. State St. in Clarksdale) | bacon | spoken | percussion vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | tourist | ||||
Shuffling/catching ties (#1) | 6648A2 | Elias Boykin, Houston Bacon | 8-8-1942 | spoken, work song | percussion, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | (suggested by Chris Smith to be the Delta Tourist Courts, Identified by Lomax as the Delta Tourist Camp | Reenactment of lining/joining track with assorted work song verses. Bacon keeps time by striking a tie. | boykin bacon | spoken work-song | percussion vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | suggested-by-chris-smith-to-be-the-delta-tourist-courts identified-by-lomax-as-the-delta-tourist-camp | ||||
Shuffling/catching ties (#2) | 6648B | Elias Boykin, Houston Bacon | 8-8-1942 | spoken, work song | percussion, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Delta Tourist Camp | Reenactment of lining/joining track with assorted work song verses (e.g., “I Got A Bulldog”; “Stewball”). Followed by discussion of the work song “Jumpin’ Julie/Judy.” Identified by Lomax as the Delta Tourist Camp (suggested by Chris Smith to be the Delta Tourist Courts • 1600 N. State St. in Clarksdale) | boykin bacon | spoken work-song | percussion vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | tourist | ||||
Interview about the benefits of whiskey; maintaining at work; negotiating differences in foremen; Bacon's work history | 6649A | Alan Lomax, Houston Bacon, Lewis Jones | 8-8-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Delta Tourist Camp | Interviewed by Lewis Jones and Alan Lomax, with some comments by Elias Boykin. After discussing whiskey, bosses, Mexicans on a crew in Kansas, he explains his work history, first on a levee camp (at Wolf River Bottom, Tenn.) and later on the railroad. After getting laid off, he followed musician friends Joe and Buddy Davis into Memphis where he became “a little sheik on gamblin'” before he started following the harvest until 1929. “…a pint of whiskey, and go on home and drink it, and he stay by the fire, that’ll help him. When they fixed it so a man [who] went out in the exposure couldn’t get a whiskey that’s the worst thing they could do. That’s the life of a man, out, you see. When he come in and open the pores of his skin, see. He been out chill all day long, some time he wet, sometime he be in a place he can’t make a fire. Well, out in the exposure, and all that exposure and stuff goin’ in his skin—if he drink him a little whiskey—I don’t mean go and do like some folks, get on the streets and get sloppy drunk and things like that—which, why, you can’t take care of your job if you do that. But just drink a little whiskey, you know, along. That better for him, you see. He’ll live and last and be whole lots more super than a man who don’t never drink no whiskey. You catch a man who don’t never drink no whiskey and be out in the exposure, well, why, he’s always be hurting, or aching, or he can’t halfway pick up or somethin’ all the time. But if he drink him a little whiskey along, it help him. That gives him pep. Nerve.” Identified by Lomax as the Delta Tourist Camp (suggested by Chris Smith to be the Delta Tourist Courts • 1600 N. State St. in Clarksdale) | lomax bacon lewis | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | tourist | ||||
Interview about Georgia Skin and gambling / Jack O' Diamonds | 6649B | Alan Lomax, Houston Bacon, Lewis Jones | 8-8-1942 | holler, spoken | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Delta Tourist Camp | Discussion of gambling and hustling cards interspersed with singing of “Jack O’ Diamonds” and assorted floating verses. Band begins with idle guitar picking. Band ends with a woman’s voice: “I wouldn’t let those boys sit on the bed.” Identified by Lomax as the Delta Tourist Camp (suggested by Chris Smith to be the Delta Tourist Courts • 1600 N. State St. in Clarksdale) | lomax bacon lewis | holler spoken | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | tourist | ||||
Lining/calling track | 6650A | Elias Boykin, Houston Bacon | 8-8-1942 | spoken, work song | percussion, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Delta Tourist Camp | Reenactment of track-lining with assorted lining-song fragments (some vulgar). Bacon keeps time by striking a tie. Identified as “Lining or calling track” on AFS card, although Bacon and Boykin state at the disc’s end that this is called “calling track… nothin’ but call.” Identified by Lomax as the Delta Tourist Camp (suggested by Chris Smith to be the Delta Tourist Courts • 1600 N. State St. in Clarksdale) | http://BEAUTIFUL SONGS/ | boykin bacon | spoken work-song | percussion vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | tourist | |||
Break the News to Mother (fragment) | 6650B1 | Will Starks | 8-9-1942 | lyric song, popular song, sentimental song | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Presumably Starks' home on Barksdale Rd. | willstarks | lyric-song popular-song sentimental-song | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | starks | |||||
Coon, Coon, Coon (I Wish My Color Would Fade) | 6650B2 | Will Starks | 8-9-1942 | coon song, lyric song, minstrel song | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Followed by discussion about learning the song (c. 1914), and its popularity. | Preceded by stretch of blank disc and test segment. | willstarks | coon-song lyric-song minstrel-song | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||
Interview about whites' attitudes towards blacks | 6650B3 | Alan Lomax, Lewis Jones, Will Starks | 8-9-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | “They’d rather have ignorant niggers; don’t know nothing.” Identified on AFS card as “Attitudes of white people toward Negroes.” | lomax lewis willstarks | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Break the News to Mother | 6650B4 | Will Starks | 8-9-1942 | lyric song, popular song, sentimental song | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Followed by discussion about the song, which he learned from a songbook c. 1914. Places it, correctly, in the Spanish-American War. | willstarks | lyric-song popular-song sentimental-song | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
The State of Arkansas | 6651A1 | Will Starks | 8-9-1942 | The State of Arkansaw | ballad | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Followed by discussion of where he learned it. Identified merely as “Arkansas” on AFS card. | Y/ | willstarks | ballad | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||
Interview about his musician father | 6651A2 | Alan Lomax, Will Starks | 8-9-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Discussion of his geneaology – his father’s father was white; his mother was “full-blooded Indian. All the Negro that’s in me is on my mother’s side.” His father was a musician who “could play most any kind of music.” | lomax willstarks | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Talk/ambience | 6651A3 | Will Starks | 8-9-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | willstarks | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||||
The Late War | 6651A4 | Will Starks | 8-9-1942 | lyric song, topical song | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Followed by discussion of the song, which he learned in 1918, and the race of song’s composer. | willstarks | lyric-song topical-song | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Ollie Jackson (#1) | 6651B1 | Will Starks | 8-9-1942 | ballad | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Followed by discussion of the song. Learned from a Charley Washington of Kansas City. | willstarks | ballad | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Travelin' Man | 6651B2 | Will Starks | 8-9-1942 | lyric song, minstrel song | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Followed by a discussion of the song, which he learned at a medicine show. | willstarks | lyric-song minstrel-song | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Fox Hunter's Song | 6651B3 | Will Starks | 8-9-1942 | ballad | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Followed by a discussion of the song, which he learned from his father “about forty years ago.” | Y/ | willstarks | ballad | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||
Our Goodman | 6652A1 | Will Starks | 8-9-1942 | Three Nights Drunk; Three Nights Experience | ballad | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Preceded by several blank bands and his introduction of the song. | willstarks | ballad | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||
Take A Whiff On Me | 6652A2 | Will Starks | 8-9-1942 | lyric song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Preceded by discussion of cocaine, its effects, and its erstwhile popularlity. “Folks would use it and they get drunk and they couldn’t smell no whiskey!” | willstarks | lyric-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Duncan and Brady | 6652B1 | Will Starks | 8-9-1942 | ballad | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | willstarks | ballad | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||||
Stackerlee | 6652B2 | Will Starks | 8-9-1942 | Stagolee | ballad | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Followed by discussion of learning the song and “Duncan and Brady,” which he recalls hearing in 1897 from an Oscar Bramley who sang it while plowing. Starks calls him a “levee-camp man” who learned them in St. Louis. | willstarks | ballad | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||
Interview about riverboats and roustabouts | 6652B3 | Alan Lomax, Will Starks | 8-9-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Recollections of experiences on the river, including sailing from Memphis on the Kate Adams, and the treatment and techniques of roustabouts. | lomax willstarks | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Interview about compulsory labor; freedom of movement; bad men; obeying white folks | 6653A | Alan Lomax, Will Starks | 8-9-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Discussion of compelling local African Americans (including children) to pick cotton and instances of resistance. Lomax asks about the baddest men in the area; Starks recalls various fights, whoopings, and Bud Doggett. “Mississippi was the best place on earth for a good nigger and the worst place for a bad nigger.” Says his grandmother, a “slavery-time woman,” always taught him to obedient to white folks. | lomax willstarks | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Down On the Farm | 6653B1 | Will Starks | 8-9-1942 | lyric song, sentimental song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Preceded by fragmentary discussion about whether Starks remembers any blues or “slow drags.” | Y/ | willstarks | lyric-song sentimental-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||
Show Me the Way to Go Home | 6653B2 | Will Starks | 8-9-1942 | lyric song, minstrel song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | willstarks | lyric-song minstrel-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||||
I'm A Rowdy Soul | 6653B3 | Will Starks | 8-9-1942 | Whoa Back Buck | comic song, lyric song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Discussion follows about it being a “po’ white song.” | willstarks | comic-song lyric-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||
My Old Mistress Promised Me / Interview about dances and courting | 6653B4 | Will Starks | 8-9-1942 | comic song, lyric song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | “Mistress” on AFS card as “Mistis.” Learned from his father. Discussion follows about set dances and courting girls. | willstarks | comic-song lyric-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Toast (Doodly Doo) | 6653B5 | Will Starks | 8-9-1942 | spoken, toast | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | A vulgar toast Starks recalls learning in jail. Discussion follows about toasts. | willstarks | spoken toast | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
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 | Coahoma | Mississippi | Followed by discussion of various songs, including “Old Dog Blue” and “Sally Goodin” of which he sings fragments. | willstarks | lyric-song reel | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||
The Dummy Line | 6654A2 | Will Starks | 8-9-1942 | lyric song, reel | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Identified on AFS card simply as “The Dummy.” Lomax prompts him with extra verses. | willstarks | lyric-song reel | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Didn't He Ramble | 6654A3 | Will Starks | 8-9-1942 | The Derby Ram; The Darby Ram | lyric song, reel | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | willstarks | lyric-song reel | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Interview about Sheriff Greek Rice outlawing music | 6654A4 | Alan Lomax, Will Starks | 8-9-1942 | spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Identified on AFS card as “Mr. Greek Rice Outlaws Music.” Discussion of Sheriff Rice closing down the juke joints and barrelhouses. | lomax willstarks | spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Story of the rabbit and the buzzard | 6654B1 | Will Starks | 8-9-1942 | spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Identified on AFS card as “Buzzard Gets Rabbit In A Hollow Log.” | willstarks | spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Interview about ghosts | 6654B2 | Lewis Jones, Will Starks | 8-9-1942 | spoken, story | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | lewis willstarks | spoken story | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||||
Ollie Jackson (#2) | 6654B3 | Will Starks | 8-9-1942 | ballad | guitar, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | willstarks | ballad | guitar vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||||
Hop, Brother Rabbit, In the Pea Vine (#1) | 6655A1 | Ruby Forrest Smith, Unidentified girls | 8-10-1942 | game song, play song | mouth-popping, vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | “Brother” is rendered “brer” on AFS card. Followed by brief discussion of learning and playing the song. Ms. Smith announces that she’s from Hillhouse, Mississippi. (Unclear whether she announces her middle name as “Ford” or “Forrest.”) | forrest ugirls | game-song play-song | mouth-popping vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
Hop, Brother Rabbit, In the Pea Vine (#2) | 6655A2 | E.M. Davis, Unidentified girls | 8-10-1942 | game song, play song | mouth-popping, vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | “Brother” is rendered “brer” on AFS card. Followed by brief discussion of learning and playing the song. Mrs. Davis announces that she’s from Hillhouse, Mississippi. “Brother” is rendered “brer” on AFS card; standard spelling used here as not all the singers of these separate versions pronounce it “brer.” | davisem ugirls | game-song play-song | mouth-popping vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
Hop, Brother Rabbit, In the Pea Vine (#3) | 6655A3 | Unidentified girls | 8-10-1942 | game song, play song | mouth-popping, vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | “Brother” is rendered “brer” on AFS card. | ugirls | game-song play-song | mouth-popping vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
Hop, Brother Rabbit, In the Pea Vine (#4) | 6655A4 | Dorothy Dilworth Barrett, Unidentified girls | 8-10-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | “Brother” is rendered “brer” on AFS card. Followed by discussion of learning the song in public school in Coahoma, where she is from, and several short blank bands. | barrett ugirls | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
We Go Logy, Logy, Logy | 6655A5 | Ruby Brown Hughes, Unidentified girls | 8-10-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | A variant of the Hokey Pokey. Followed by discussion of learning and playing the song. Miss Hughes was from Jonestown, Miss. | hughes ugirls | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
Here Come Two Gents from Holly Springs (#1) | 6655B1 | Ruby Brown Hughes, Ruby Harris | 8-10-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Followed by singers’ introductions and discussion of where they learned the song. | hughes rubyharris | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
Bob-A-Needle | 6655B2 | Dorothy Dilworth Barrett, Unidentified girls | 8-10-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Followed by explanation of game and discussion of learning/teaching it. | barrett ugirls | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
Mister Frog Went A Courting | 6655B3 | Sara Lena Teague, Unidentified girls | 8-10-1942 | Froggie Went A Courting | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Followed by explanation of game and discussion of learning/teaching it. | teague ugirls | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | |||
We're Marching 'Round the Levee | 6655B4 | Unidentified girls | 8-10-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Zora Neale Hurston sang a very similar variant, “There Stands A Bluebird,” for Lomax in Haiti in late 1936. | ugirls | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
Down By the Green Apple Tree | 6655B5 | Unidentified girls | 8-10-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | ugirls | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | |||||
Who De Cat (Sail, Sail) | 6655B6 | Unidentified girls | 8-10-1942 | Who-Li-Can | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | See 6657A2 for “Who-Li-Can,” a variant performed by an older generation. | ugirls | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | |||
How Many Miles to Bethlehem? (#2) | 6655B7 | Florence Rembert, Mabel Lou Brewer, Unidentified girls | 8-10-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Following the performance Florence identifies herself as 11 years old and living on the “King and Anderson place”; Mabel Lou is 12; her stated residence is indecipherable. | rembert brewer ugirls | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
Satisfy (#1) | 6656A1 | Florence Rembert, Unidentified girls | 8-10-1942 | game song, play song | clapping, vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | rembert ugirls | game-song play-song | clapping vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | |||||
Satisfy (#2) | 6656A2 | Mabel Lou Brewer, Unidentified girls | 8-10-1942 | game song, play song | clapping, vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Followed by a girl named Louise Hicks introducing herself before singing a version that wasn’t recorded. | brewer ugirls | game-song play-song | clapping vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
Little Sally Walker | 6656A3 | Queen Esther Ivory, Unidentified girls | 8-10-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Queen Esther announces that she’s 13 and from Mr. Boland’s [?] place near Clarksdale. Her last name is indistinct, and could be “Harris” (suggested by Chris Smith and census research) or “Ivey.” She explains how the game is played. | ivory ugirls | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
Uncle John's Rabbit | 6656A4 | Florence Rembert, Unidentified girls | 8-10-1942 | game song, play song | clapping, vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | rembert ugirls | game-song play-song | clapping vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | |||||
Here Come Two Gents from Holly Springs (#2) | 6656A5 | Florence Rembert, Queen Esther Ivory | 8-10-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Followed by explanation of the game. | rembert ivory | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
Here We Go Loop-Ti-Loop | 6656A6 | Florence Rembert, Queen Esther Ivory, Unidentified girls | 8-10-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Followed by explanation of the game. | rembert ivory ugirls | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
All Hid (#1) | 6656B1 | Mabel Lou Brewer | 8-10-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | brewer | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | |||||
All Hid (#9) | 6656B10 | E.M. Davis, Group of teachers | 8-10-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | A mixed group responds. (This group likely is that which appears in the film footage.) | davisem teachers | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
Little Girls, Little Girls (#1) | 6656B11 | Group of teachers, Unidentified woman | 8-10-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | A mixed group responds. (This group likely is that which appears in the film footage. Includes Mrs. E.M. Davis.) | teachers uwoman | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
Little Girls, Little Girls (#2) | 6656B12 | E.M. Davis, Group of teachers | 8-10-1942 | game song, play song | clapping, vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | A mixed group responds. (This group likely is that which appears in the film footage.) | davisem teachers | game-song play-song | clapping vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
Y Girls Are High-Minded | 6656B13 | Group of teachers | 8-10-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | “Y” as in YWCA. (This group likely is that which appears in the film footage.) | teachers | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
Shortenin' Bread (#1) | 6656B14 | Bobbie Mae Brown | 8-10-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Bobbie Mae says she’s eight and that she learned the song from her teacher. Lomax asks what her favorite song is; she replies “Shortenin’ Bread?” AFS card misidentifies singer as Bill J. Lewis [sic], confusing Billie J. Levi on 6656B7. | Y/ | mae | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | |||
All Hid (#2) | 6656B2 | Florence Rembert | 8-10-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Rembert announces that she’s 11 and from King and Anderson Plantation. | rembert | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
All Hid (#3) | 6656B3 | Queen Esther Ivory | 8-10-1942 | game song, vocal | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Queen Esther announces that she’s 13 and from Mr. Boland’s [?] place near Clarksdale. Her last name is indistinct, and could be “Harris” (suggested by Chris Smith and census research) or “Ivey.” She explains how the game is played. | ivory | game-song vocal | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
All Hid (#3) | 6656B3 | Queen Esther Ivory | 8-10-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Queen Esther announces that she’s 13 and from Mr. Boland’s [?] place near Clarksdale. Her last name is indistinct, and could be “Harris” (suggested by Chris Smith and census research) or “Ivey.” She explains how the game is played. | ivory | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
All Hid (#4) | 6656B4 | Ora B. Thomason | 8-10-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Ora B. announces that she’s 14 and from King and Anderson Plantation. | ora | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
All Hid (#4) | 6656B5 | Virginia Lee Thomason | 8-10-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Virginia Lee announces that she’s 13 and from King and Anderson Plantation. | virginia | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
All Hid (#5) | 6656B6 | Louise Hicks | 8-10-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Louise announces that she’s 13 and from “Mr. Peacock’s place.” | hicks | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
All Hid (#6) | 6656B7 | Billie J. Levi | 8-10-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Billie J. announces that she’s 9 and from King and Anderson Plantation. | levi | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
All Hid (#7) | 6656B8 | Lee Flowers | 8-10-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Lee announces that she’s 11 and from Clarksdale. | flowers | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
All Hid (#8) | 6656B9 | Group of teachers, Unidentified woman | 8-10-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | A mixed group responds. (This group likely is that which appears in the film footage. Includes Mrs. E.M. Davis.) | teachers uwoman | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
All Hid (#10) | 6657A1 | Ruby Brown Hughes, Unidentified women | 8-11-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | hughes uwomen | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | |||||
Sally Go Round the Sunshine | 6657A10 | Unidentified women, Willie Mae McReynolds | 8-11-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | uwomen mcreynolds | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | |||||
Who-Li-Can (Sail, Sail) | 6657A2 | Ruby Brown Hughes, Unidentified women | 8-11-1942 | Who De Cat | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | See 6655B6 for “Who De Cat,” a variant performed by younger generation. | hughes uwomen | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | |||
Aunt Dinah's Dead (#1) | 6657A3 | Ruby Brown Hughes, Ruby Harris | 8-11-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | hughes rubyharris | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | |||||
Di Dee-O | 6657A4 | Ruby Harris, Unidentified women | 8-11-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Followed by explanation of game, which Ms. Harris recalls learning at the Gregory School near Lyon, Miss. | rubyharris uwomen | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
Shortenin' Bread (#2) | 6657A5 | Ruby Forrest Smith, Unidentified women | 8-11-1942 | game song, play song | clapping, vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | (Unclear whether she announces her middle name as “Ford” or “Forrest.”) | forrest uwomen | game-song play-song | clapping vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
Green Gravel | 6657A6 | Ruby Forrest Smith | 8-11-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | forrest | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | |||||||
All the Way Round (Seven Times) | 6657A7 | Ruby Harris, Unidentified women | 8-11-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Followed by explanation of the game and her learning it about 25 years earlier at the Gregory School near Lyon, Miss., where the children who played it were between 10 and 16. | rubyharris uwomen | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
How Many Miles to Bethlehem? (#2) | 6657A8 | Unidentified women | 8-11-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Identified as “teacher and group [sic]” on AFS card. | uwomen | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
Lost My Handkerchief Yesterday | 6657A9 | Unidentified women, Willie Mae McReynolds | 8-11-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Followed by explanation of the game and appropriate ages for playing it. | uwomen mcreynolds | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
Willie Over the Water | 6657B1 | Rosie Shelby, Unidentified women | 8-11-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Ms. Shelby says she lives in Friars Point, and learned this song 25 years earlier. She then explains the game. | shelby uwomen | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
Needle Eye | 6657B2 | Ruby Harris, Unidentified women | 8-11-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Followed by explanation of game, which Ms. Harris recalls learning at the Gregory School near Lyon, Miss. | rubyharris uwomen | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
Shoo Fly | 6657B3 | Ruby Harris, Unidentified women | 8-11-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Followed by explanation of game, which Ms. Harris has known for 30 years. | rubyharris uwomen | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
Cool Water | 6657B4 | Ruby Harris | 8-11-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | rubyharris | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | |||||
Chicken, My Chicken, My Craney Crow (#1) | 6657B5 | Ruby Harris, Unidentified woman | 8-11-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Identified on AFS Card as “Chicken-Ma-Craney-Crow.” Followed by explanation of game. | rubyharris uwoman | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
Did You Ever See the Monkey Do the Motion | 6657B6 | Florence Rembert, Unidentified girls | 8-11-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Followed by discussion of learning the game and some inaudible chatter. | rembert ugirls | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
Chicken, My Chicken, My Craney Crow (#2) | 6657B7 | Florence Rembert, Unidentified girls | 8-11-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Identified on AFS Card as “Chicken-Ma-Craney-Crow.” Followed by explanation of game. | rembert ugirls | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
Aunt Dinah's Dead (#2) | 6657B8 | Florence Rembert, Unidentified girls | 8-11-1942 | game song, play song | clapping, vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | rembert ugirls | game-song play-song | clapping vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | |||||
Guessing games | 6657B9 | Unidentified girls | 8-11-1942 | game, spoken | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | ugirls | game spoken | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | |||||
If I Be Lifted Up | 6658A | Unidentified | 7-24-1942 | hymn, sacred song | piano, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church, Pre-convention meeting | Recorded at the Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church | unidentified | hymn sacred-song | piano vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary pre | ||||
Where Could I Go But to the Lord | 6659A | Unidentified, Unidentified woman | 7-24-1942 | hymn, sacred song | piano, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church, Pre-convention meeting | Identified on AFS card as “Where Shall I Go.” | unidentified uwoman | hymn sacred-song | piano vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary pre | ||||
Every Time I Feel the Spirit | 6659B1 | Unidentified | 7-24-1942 | hymn, sacred song | piano, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church, Pre-convention meeting | unidentified | hymn sacred-song | piano vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary pre | |||||
There's No Hiding Place Down Here | 6659B2 | Unidentified | 7-24-1942 | hymn, sacred song | piano, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church, Pre-convention meeting | unidentified | hymn sacred-song | piano vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary pre | |||||
Piano solo | 6660A1 | Unidentified | 7-24-1942 | Instrumental | piano | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church, Pre-convention meeting | unidentified | instrumental | piano | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary pre | |||||
Wait A Little While | 6660A2 | Unidentified, Unidentified woman | hymn, sacred song | piano, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church, Pre-convention meeting | Y/ | unidentified uwoman | hymn sacred-song | piano vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary pre | |||||
Unidentified hymn | 6660B1 | Unidentified | 7-24-1942 | hymn, sacred song | piano, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church, Pre-convention meeting | unidentified | hymn sacred-song | piano vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary pre | |||||
Hallelujah, Amen | 6660B2 | Unidentified | 7-24-1942 | hymn, sacred song | piano, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church, Pre-convention meeting | unidentified | hymn sacred-song | piano vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary pre | |||||
Does Anybody Know My Lord | 6660B3 | Unidentified | 7-24-1942 | hymn, sacred song | piano, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church, Pre-convention meeting | unidentified | hymn sacred-song | piano vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary pre | |||||
| I Know I've Been Converted | 6661A1 | Mr. Davis, Unidentified | 7-24-1942 | hymn, sacred song | piano, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church, Pre-convention meeting | mrdavis unidentified | hymn sacred-song | piano vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary pre | ||||
The Man of Galilee (continued) | 6661A2 | Mr. Davis, Unidentified | 7-24-1942 | hymn, sacred song | piano, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church, Pre-convention meeting | Identified on AFS card by (roughly) first line, “I’m On A Shiny Pathway.” | mrdavis unidentified | hymn sacred-song | piano vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary pre | ||||
The Man of Galilee (continued) | 6661B1 | Mr. Davis, Unidentified | 7-24-1942 | hymn, sacred song | piano, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church, Pre-convention meeting | Identified on AFS card by (roughly) first line, “I’m On A Shiny Pathway.” | mrdavis unidentified | hymn sacred-song | piano vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary pre | ||||
Jesus Will Be With Me In My Dying Hour | 6661B2 | Unidentified | 7-24-1942 | hymn, sacred song | piano, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Mississippi Missionary Baptist Convention at the First African Baptist Church, Pre-convention meeting | unidentified | hymn sacred-song | piano vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | missionary pre | |||||
Fo' Day Blues/Interview | 6662A1 | Alan Lomax, Tommy (Jaybird) Jones | 7-28-1942 | blues, Instrumental, spoken | piano, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Interview about Clarksdale, dance halls, local piano players, and this tune takes place while Jones plays. (Despite Alan’s introduction of the date being “the 26th or 27th,” it was the 28th.) | lomax tjaybird | blues instrumental spoken | piano vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Unidentified ragtime tune (#1) | 6662A2 | Tommy (Jaybird) Jones | 7-28-1942 | Instrumental, ragtime | piano | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | tjaybird | instrumental ragtime | piano | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||||
Walking Billy/Interview | 6662B1 | Alan Lomax, Tommy (Jaybird) Jones | 7-28-1942 | dance tune, Instrumental, spoken | piano, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Interview about the “Walking Billy” and other dances and tunes; ragtime pianists; and the clientele of the joints where Jones would play takes place while he plays the tune. | lomax tjaybird | dance-tune instrumental spoken | piano vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Unidentified ragtime tune (#2) | 6662B2 | Alan Lomax, Tommy (Jaybird) Jones | 7-28-1942 | Instrumental, ragtime, spoken | piano, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Followed by interview about ragtime, blues, and assorted dances at the venues he played. | lomax tjaybird | instrumental ragtime spoken | piano vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Interview about Clarksdale's red-light district, his jazz band and their tunes | 6663A1 | Alan Lomax, Tommy (Jaybird) Jones | 7-28-1942 | Instrumental, spoken | piano, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Discussion of closing of Clarksdale’s red-light district and scattering of musicians; his band and its personnel, and their tunes. | lomax tjaybird | instrumental spoken | piano vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Interview about his jazz band and their tunes (continued) | 6663A2 | Alan Lomax, Tommy (Jaybird) Jones | 7-28-1942 | Instrumental, spoken | piano, vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Discussion of his band, its personnel, their tunes, and renowed local musicians. | lomax tjaybird | instrumental spoken | piano vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Interview about early blues | 6663A3 | Alan Lomax, Tommy (Jaybird) Jones | 7-28-1942 | Instrumental, spoken | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Discussion of early blues, including Joe Turner Blues (which he recalls as the first blues he heard), Midnight Blues, and Corrina. | lomax tjaybird | instrumental spoken | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Corrina, Corrina/Careless Love/Interview | 6663B1 | Alan Lomax, Tommy (Jaybird) Jones | 7-28-1942 | blues, Instrumental, spoken | piano | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Interspersed with discussion of early blues. | lomax tjaybird | blues instrumental spoken | piano | clarksdale | coahoma | ||||||
Love Me | 6663B2 | Unidentified woman | 7-30-1942 | lyric song, popular song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | uwoman | lyric-song popular-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | |||||||
I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say (#1) | 6663B3 | Ella Williams, Unidentified women | 7-30-1942 | lining hymn, sacred song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Identified on AFS card as “four girls.” | ella-williams uwomen | lining-hymn sacred-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say (#2) | 6664A1 | Unidentified woman | 7-30-1942 | lining hymn, sacred song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Identified on AFS card as “four girls,” although this band consists of two women taking turns singing. | uwoman | lining-hymn sacred-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
All My Trouble Will Be Over After While | 6664A2 | Ella Williams | 7-30-1942 | sacred song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Preceded by discussion of where she learned the song. | ella-williams | sacred-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
All Power Is In His Hands | 6664B | Unidentified woman | 7-30-1942 | sacred song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Followed by brief discussion of the song, which the singer (26 years old) learned from her sister Annie Mae Morris. | Y/ | uwoman | sacred-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | |||
Good Old Man | 6665A1 | Ruby Forrest Smith, Unidentified women | 7-30-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Preceded by announcement of where she learned the game and how it’s played. | forrest uwomen | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
Satisfy (#1) | 6665A2 | Ruby Forrest Smith, Unidentified woman | 7-30-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Preceded by announcement of where she learned the game (16-17 years earlier at Hill House, Miss.). | forrest uwoman | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie | ||||
Satisfy (#2) | 6665A3 | Mrs. E.M. Davis, Unidentified woman | 7-30-1942 | game song, play song | vocal | Coahoma | Coahoma | Mississippi | Coahoma County Agricultural High School | Preceded by announcement of where she learned the game (Hill House, Miss., at the Rosewood School). | emdavis uwoman | game-song play-song | vocal | coahoma | coahoma | aggie |