Sitting On Top of the World

Audio file
Date recorded: July 19, 1942
Contributor(s): Performer: Johnson, Turner S., Jr. (Turner Junior Johnson); Recordist: Lomax, Alan; Recordist: Jones, Lewis
Subject(s):
Genre: blues, popular song
Instruments: voice, harmonica
Location: Clarksdale, Coahoma County, Mississippi, United States
Tape number: AFS6609
Track Number: 3
Archive ID: 6609B3
Note: Preceded with questions from Lewis Jones about the secular songs in his repertoire (those he performs while busking), and followed by commentary on Blind Sid Hemphill, from whom he learned the song, and how to find him. Lomax and Jones would visit him several days later.
Belongs to: Clarksdale 7/42
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