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Date recorded: September 12, 1959
Contributor(s): Performer: Lomax, Alan; Performer: Combs, Ada; Performer: Caudill, Harry M.; Recordist: Lomax, Alan
Subject(s):
Genre: comic song, dance song, interview/commentary, spoken
Culture: Anglo-American, Southern U.S.
Instruments: banjo (five-string), voice
Setting: Alan Lomax's car, driving between Scottsboro and Huntsville
Location: Alabama, United States
Physical form: Reel to Reel
Tape number: T866
Track Number: 1
Archive ID: T866.1R01
Note: Ada sings and plays fragments of "Pretty Polly," "Give Me the Hook, Give Me the Line," and "Jenny Get Around."
Transcript:
Belongs to: Alabama in transit 9/59
About the session: These recordings were made by Lomax on a "Midgetape" an early dictaphone machine about 6" x 10" in size that used a small tape cartridge holding two reels of tape stacked on top of each other. T866A is one of two extant cartridges of Alan's (the other being T866, interviews with Ada Combs, Whitesburg, KY), and it appears that he reused this tape many times in capturing various ambient and incidental recordings. These recordings were made in the car between Scottsboro and Huntsville, identified as such by Alan Lomax and Shirley Collins in the brief segments of narration.
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