Interview about Spread My Raincoat Down and the meaning and origins of the blues
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Title: Interview about Spread My Raincoat Down and the meaning and origins of the blues Date recorded: July 20, 1942 Contributor(s): Performer: Lomax, Alan; Performer: Edwards, David (Honeyboy); Recordist: Lomax, Alan; Recordist: Jones, Lewis
Note: Discussion of the preceding "plantation song," which Edwards learned as a boy in Shaw, Miss.; what the blues "are all about"; and the first time he had the blues.
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