Manuscript/Mixed Material Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night
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Image 1 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night American Folklife Center Library of Congress Alan Lomax Collection AFC 2004004 folder 230202 projects sound recordings Blues in the Mississippi Night transcripts correspondence Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 2 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night Columbia University in the City of New York New York 27 NY Department of Anthropology June 231947 Mr Alan Lomax Decca Records 50 West 57th St New York City Dear Alan This…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 3 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 1 SLOW PIANO BLUES BACK THROUGH THE WHOLE RECORD SID Well one of the reasons that I started playin the blues was fromuh just feelin bad lack of money anduh fact…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 4 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 2 KID cont An you know an we used to go to school together SID Yeah KID An we naturally grew up together you know SID Yeah KID we grew up…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 5 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night Page 2A The blues referred to begins Good mornin little school girl Good mornin little school girl May I go home with you May I go home with you You can tell…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 6 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 3 KID Awwwwell you knowuh dat time out in the hills like that you couldnt get this good whiskey You got to drink what you could I was drinkin you know…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 7 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 4 SID Yeah I know that Yeah NACHEZ I mean women troubles and so forth and so on like that SID Yeah NACHEZ Blues is the only thing that you know…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 8 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 5 NACHEZ GOING RIGHT ON if your wife lef home n left you n did you wrong somethin like that I mean ALAN Yeah but why did they start in the…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 9 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 6 KID You knowyknow you done worked hard all year an thenthen you You know you get that idea that youyou look like youyouuhyou I aint doin no good no way…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 10 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 7 SID cont So those things like that I wonder isis that the cause why the blues Uhwhy a man have the blues is on account of he cant make the…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 11 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 8 SID Uhwell wait a minute now As you made that point ALAN Whats the difference Sid DISREGARDED SID Why is it why is it when a fellow you hear a…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 12 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 9 KID cont nothin worry us too much you unerstan An then we just we go to them country suppers NACHEZ Barrelhouses KID An when I used touh have a dollar…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 13 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 10 KID bottom with willows thick SID New ground they call it KID Yeah Unhunh Willows was thick IIve stalled four mules to a wagon you understan Four mules yknow out…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 14 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 11 SID cont where you used to have to clean up to make you amake ya livin on raisinuh cotton or corn or whatsonever you had to raise on that land…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 15 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 12 SID cont camps and rock quarries and every place an I hear guys singin mmmm this an mmmm that anuh I want to know an want to get the thing…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 16 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 13 SID cont ness on my stay off my foot an such things as that yknow what I mean NACHEZ Well Sid I don wanta cut you off butuh I mean…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 17 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 14 SID cont erthose words that you sing How do you sing a thing like that NACHEZ Well Iuh likeuh a frien of mines I knowuh were down workin on the…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 18 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 15 NACHEZ an gettin your revenge through songs SID Wewell well Nachez heres the thing I wanna get straightened out is thisuh aboutuh jes likeuh you worked on the railroad where…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 19 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 16 NACHEZ Yeah yeah SID We used to sing those things yknow like that ALAN What else would you sing to that Sid I WAS TRYING TO GET MORE OF THIS…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 20 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 17 KID Of courseuh now I knowuh Iuh of course thatas a little bit before my time but yetuh Isuh yknow I worked on a farm an yknow these big cotton…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 21 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 18 SID Thathats railroad thats railroad We talkin bout levee camp levee camps you know Somethin I mean like big mules an KID KID IS NOW IN FAMILIAR ROLE AS BUTT…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 22 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 19 SID Bcause that cuts off an it leaves a ridge about Id say two or three inches NACHEZ THEY ARE BOTH ABSORBED NOW IN DISCUSSING THE TOOLS THEY ONCE USED…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 23 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 20 NACHEZ Erlikeer makes the rows SID Thats right Makes the rows yeah NACHEZ An those guys can make em jus as straight as arrows SID Yeah you ain jokin NACHEZ…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 24 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 21 SID cont an hes gotta take whatsonever they give him to eat anuh whatsonever the clothes they give him hes got to wear that n then when those wear out…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 25 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 22 SID If they punish em they gotta punish here NACHEZ Thats true SID But down there theytheythey really lash em down there NACHEZ Yeah well we still referrin to SID…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 26 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 23 NACHEZ Yeah SID An those things theythey got uhwhat you call those shackles an things on they legs NACHEZ Yeah Shackles Yeah SID Yknow what I mean Well thosethose fellas…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 27 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 24 SID Unhunh NACHEZ LOUD Run SID An if he can get out the way thatuh of those dogs and houns an whatsonever NACHEZ dogs an guns an things like that…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 28 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 25 SID cont maybe you can make a prison break or somethin like that run away But on a levee camp if youre on Chollie Lomax HE BEGAN TO STUMBLE AND…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 29 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 26 NACHEZ cont the same as on a prison farm SID INTERRUPTING Unerstan what I mean you could run off run you could git away NACHEZ Yeah you could run off…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 30 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 27 NACHEZ So they charge us what they wanna SID Thats right NACHEZ So they charge us twentyfive dollars for a side of sidemeat SID Thats right NACHEZ or somethin like…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 31 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 28 NACHEZ Then you work the rest of your life SID Thats your mule yeah NACHEZ Yeah you bought that mule You bought that mule yeah SID Yeah NACHEZ You work…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 32 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 29 SID An the main thing about it is thabout thatuh about those songs an things that wewe that they sung on thosethose camps an things I don know whether maybe…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 33 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 30 SID You ever been locked up in jail for shootin craps KID Of course I have SID Been in jail for shootin craps KID Yeas I have ALAN You know…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 34 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 31 SID Yeah II know a lots of em but the main thing about it I haven got em ALAN Just sing one then SID Welluh IIll have to get that…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 35 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 32 NACHEZ cont Memphis was their headquarters so they used to have a song around down there levee camps an prison farms they used to sing a song aobut SINGS Im…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 36 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 33 NATCHEZ Well have you ever been to Nashville Well have you ever been to Nashville Well have you ever been to Nashville O Lawdy the Nashville Pen Boys if you…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 37 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 34 SIB not the way so nobody could play behin you NATCHEZ Yeah aboutan things that you want to do or wanna know SIB Yeah things that have really happene to…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 38 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 35 SIB Well you got to be blue to sing the blues NATCHEZ Thats true thats true SIB Anuh the thing about it you take a fella that haven never had…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 39 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 36 SIB Thats right NATCHEZ There still is Loran brothers SIB Thas right NATCHEZ An they are theyre people that go aroun an buy up all the new groun an lan…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Image 40 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Blues in the Mississippi Night BLUES 37 SIB Thas right too NATCHEZ Yeah SIB I know that NATCHEZ You come in town you buy what you wan at the Loran brothers SIB Did you did you ever…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1925-01-01