Boll Weevil

Audio file

Date recorded: August 15, 1942
Contributor(s): Performer: Head, Will; Performer: Askew, Alec (Turpentine); Performer: Smith, Lucius; Performer: Hemphill, Sid; Recordist: Lomax, Alan; Recordist: Jones, Lewis

Subject(s):

Genre: ballad

Instruments: voice, fiddle, banjo, guitar, bass drum

Setting: The Fives

Location: Sledge, Quitman County, Mississippi, United States

Tape number: AFS6671

Track Number: 2

Archive ID: 6671A2

Note: Followed by discussion of composing the ballad, which Smith suggests Hemphill wrote in 1905.

Belongs to: Sledge 8/42

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