Fred McDowell. Woke Up This Morning With My Mind On Jesus. Alan Lomax Field Recording. 1959.
Edith Johnson. Good Chib Blues. 1929.
Alan Lomax. Inmates of a Chain Gang in South Carolina. 1959.
Crying Sam Collins. Slow Mama Slow. Oriole Records. 1931.
Swift Jewel Cowboys - Bug Scuffle. Vocalion. 1939.
Memphis Minnie. Pickin' The Blues. 1929.
A rare instrumental from the Memphis guitar legend herself, found on Ragtime Dorian Henry, to my mind the finest old blues channel on youtube.
Lizzie Douglas, known to the world as Memphis Minnie (1897-1973), pictured in bottom photograph with her second husband Kansas Joe McCoy, c. 1929.
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At first there was nothing...then nothing turned itself inside-out and became something
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