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Date recorded: August 1, 1933
Contributor(s): Performer: Vowell, G.D.; Recordist: Lomax, Alan; Recordist: Lomax, John A.
Subject(s):
Genre: sacred song
Instruments: voice
Language: English
Location: Harlan, Harlan County, Kentucky, United States
Tape number: AFS0075
Track Number: 3
Archive ID: 0075A3
Note: Vowell announces that he learned the song "at Briceville, Tennessee, forty odd years ago, during the revival meetings there."
Transcript:
Belongs to: Harlan 8/33
About the session: John and Alan Lomax's first visit to Kentucky took place at the end of their first recording trip together, in the summer of 1933. In Harlan, they stayed with the lawyer and ballad collector Harvey H. Fuson, whose book Ballads of the Kentucky Highlands had been published in 1931. Fuson introduced the Lomaxes to G.D. Vowell and James "Blind Jim" Howard, their two informants during the visit.
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