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Date recorded: August 8, 1942
Contributor(s): Performer: Boykin, Elias; Performer: Bacon, Houston; Recordist: Lomax, Alan; Recordist: Jones, Lewis
Subject(s):
Genre: spoken, work song
Instruments: voice, guitar
Setting: Identified by Lomax as the Delta Tourist Camp (suggested by Chris Smith to be the Delta Tourist Courts, 1600 N. State St. in Clarksdale).
Location: Clarksdale, Coahoma County, Mississippi, United States
Tape number: AFS6650
Track Number: 1
Archive ID: 6650A
Note: Reenactment of track-lining with assorted lining-song fragments (some vulgar). Bacon keeps time by striking a tie. Identified as "Lining or calling track" on AFS card, although Bacon and Boykin state at the disc's end that this is called "calling track... nothin' but call."
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Belongs to: Clarksdale 8/42
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