Alabama in transit 9/59

September 12, 1959
Alabama, United States
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.

Pretty Polly (fragment) / Give Me The Hook, Give Me The Line (fragment) / Jenny Get Around (fragment) / Interview with Ada Combs about courting, rearing children, marriage, domestic abuse, and murder

Commentary by Alan Lomax and Shirley Collins on the WROS Old-Time Religious Hour radio broadcast (I)

WROS Old-Time Religious Hour radio broadcast (II)

Commentary by Alan Lomax and Shirley Collins on the WROS Old-Time Religious Hour radio broadcast (II)

WROS Old-Time Religious Hour radio broadcast (III)

Commentary by Alan Lomax and Shirley Collins on the WROS Old-Time Religious Hour radio broadcast (III)

WROS Old-Time Religious Hour radio broadcast (IV)

WEUP radio broadcast by DJ Daddy Cool