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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 |
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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. |