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  4. Part 2 of 11: Picnic with Napoleon Strickland & Como Drum Corps (1978)
Title: Part 2 of 11: Picnic with Napoleon Strickland & Como Drum Corps (1978)
Date recorded: August 25, 1978
Contributor(s): Recordist: Bishop, John; Recordist: Long, Worth; Recordist: Lomax, Alan; Performer: Strickland, Napoleon; Performer: Como Drum Corps
Description: Morning to Midnight, performed by Napoleon Strickland and the Como Drum Corps at a picnic outside Como, Mississippi. Shot by Alan Lomax, John Bishop, and Worth Long, August 25, 1978.
Genre: fife and drum tune
Subject(s):
Location: Como, Panola County, Mississippi, United States
Archive ID: TzWLqbk7GVM
Track: 5
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: The Last Time (1978)
Joe Savage: Texas Is My Home (1978)
St. James Missionary Baptist Church of Canton: Wade In the Water (1978)
Sam Chatmon: The Preacher and the Bear (1978)
Belton Sutherland: I Got Trouble (1978)
Sam Chatmon: Sittin' On Top of the World (1978)
Belton Sutherland & Clyde Maxwell: Blues (1978)

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