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Southwest Virginia blues.
Streaming audio Available online
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- Sound recording
- Series:
- Smithsonian Global Sound.
- Virginia traditions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blues (Music)--Virginia.
- Blues (Music).
- Virginia.
- Genre:
- Blues (Music)
- Sound recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (46 minutes).
- Other Title:
- Virginia traditions : southwest Virginia blues
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 1988.
- Language Note:
- Sung in English.
- Contents:
- Brownie blues (Steve Tarter and Harry Gay)
- Pan American blues (Fred Galliher)
- Poor boy long way from home (James Henry Diggs)
- I went down in Virginia (Earl Gilmore)
- King Edward's blues (King Edward Smith)
- Bear Creek blues (Carter Family)
- Mississippi heavy water blues (Josh Thomas)
- Old time blues (Carl Martin)
- Take care my wife and my baby (Howard Twine)
- Chattanooga blues (Malcolm Johnson)
- False hearted lover's blues (Dock Boggs)
- The war is over (Dave Dickerson)
- Going down that road feeling bad ("Cowboy" Truman Burks)
- Bed bugs making their last go 'round (Byrd Moore)
- Black snake moan (Spence Moore)
- Long gone lonesome blues (Bobby Buford and Keith Rogers).
- Participant:
- Various performers.
- Notes:
- Includes PDF of liner notes in English.
- Streaming audio files.
- Title from resource description page (viewed March 03, 2016).
- Recorded between June 28, 1928, and Sept. 9, 1984 ; field recordings made at various locations in southwestern Virginia, or commercial recordings made by Virginians, principally in Chicago.
- Other Format:
- Original cat. no.: BRI00008
- OCLC:
- 950026519
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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