Tommy (Jaybird) Jones – Alan Lomax | Mississippi Delta

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Listen Now	Title	File Number	Subjects	Recording Date	Alt Title	Genres	Instruments	Cities	Counties	State	Setting	Editor Note	Technical Note	Online Resources
	Worried Life Blues	6645B2	Millie Lee Whitehead, Tommy (Jaybird) Jones	7-28-1942		blues	piano, vocal	Clarksdale	Coahoma	Mississippi
	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.)
	Unidentified ragtime tune (#1)	6662A2	Tommy (Jaybird) Jones	7-28-1942		Instrumental, ragtime	piano	Clarksdale	Coahoma	Mississippi
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.

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