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Title: Napoleon Strickland and kids: fife-and-drum picnic preparation (1978)
Date recorded: August 25, 1978
Contributor(s): Recordist: Bishop, John; Recordist: Long, Worth; Recordist: Lomax, Alan; Performer: Strickland, Napoleon
Description: Napoleon Strickland and kids play during the preparation for the night's picnic at the Bartlett farm outside Como, Mississippi. Shot by Alan Lomax, John Bishop, and Worth Long, August 25, 1978.
Subject(s):
Location: Como, Panola County, Mississippi, United States
Archive ID: Bks9sFNvGVo
Track: 10
Part of: Mississippi Delta and Hill Country (1978)
About the session: Bluesmen; fife-and-drum ensembles; former muleskinners and railroad tie-tampers; and tall-tale reciters. Performers include Skip James collaborator Jack Owens, diddley-bow player Lonnie Pitchford, fife legend Otha Turner, and R. L. Burnside in his first film appearance.
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Sam Chatmon: Make Me A Pallet On the Floor (1978)
Belton Sutherland: Blues #2 (1978)
R.L. Burnside: Poor Boy A Long Way From Home (1978)
R.L. Burnside and family: Boogie instrumental (1978)
R.L. Burnside: Burnside's Blues (1978)
Sonny Boy Nelson: How You Want Your Rolling Done? (1978)

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