Golden Boy

Audio file
Date recorded: September 3, 1937
Contributor(s): Performer: Patterson, Alzea; Performer: Woodard, Lloyd Lee; Performer: Abrams, Lawrence M.; Recordist: Lomax, John A.
Subject(s):
Genre: play song
Instruments: voice
Setting: Piney Woods School
Language: English
Location: Piney Woods, Rankin County, Mississippi, United States
Tape number: AFS0879
Track Number: 3
Archive ID: 0879A4
Note: AFS card identifies Abram as "L.M. Abrahams." As Chris Smith writes in Blues & Gospel Records, 1890-1943, "Abram[s] and Lloyd Lee Woodard founded The Original Five Blind Boys of Mississippi (The Jackson Harmoneers) with three other blind members of the school."
Belongs to: Piney Woods 9/37
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