I Love Somebody (I)

Title: I Love Somebody (I)
Date recorded: August 25, 1942
Contributor(s): Performer: Wilson, Effie; Recordist: Lomax, Alan; Recordist: Jackson, George Pullen
Genre: instrumental
Instruments: dulcimer

Subject(s):

Note: Followed by discussion of dulcimer's provenance and her playing style. Mrs. Wilson says the instrument was made by Sanford Harvey in Willow Shade in Metcalfe County.

Location: Marrowbone, Cumberland County, Kentucky, United States

Archive ID: 6722A3

Tape number: AFS6722
Track: 3

Part of: Marrowbone 9/42

About the session: After recording the annual Alabama Sacred Harp Convention in Birmingham, Alan Lomax and George Pullen Jackson visited sisters-in-law Effie Wilson and Addina Palmore Wilson in Marrowbone, Kentucky, where they recorded them singing play-party songs and ballads with dulcimer and "dingle bow" accompaniment.

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