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  1. "Boll Weevil" is a traditional #blues song, also known by similar titles such as "Boweavil" or "Boll Weevil Blues". Many songs about the #bollWeevil were recorded by blues musicians during the 1920s through the 1940s. However, a rendition by #LeadBelly recorded in 1934 by folklorist #AlanLomax led to it becoming well known. A 1961 adaptation by #BrookBenton became a pop hit, reaching number two on the Billboard Hot 100. Fats Domino's "Bo Weevil" is a different song.
    youtube.com/watch?v=kVwjYptcnAY

  2. #NowPlaying - Rama: Nuhara

    Amazing backstory. Halfway through this rekkid and it's a ripper. Gabriele Bazza's vocals... damn.

    "For me, this was a way to say, it’s OK if I’m Sicilian and I shout when I talk, it’s OK to talk in the richness of dialect. I don’t have to be ashamed.”

    RIYL: #breakbeats, #Sicily, #AlanLomax

    thequietus.com/interviews/nuha

  3. Checking out an album where Alan Lomax himself performs folk and blues songs he learned traveling across Texas. He has a good voice for rustic folk/country/blues.

    #folk #folkmusic #lomax #alanlomax #blues #country

  4. Who was Alan Lomax? 🎵 Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) spent almost 70 years as a folklorist and ethnographer, collecting, archiving, and analyzing folksongs and music in America. www.loc.gov/item/n500394... #AlanLomax #FolkMusic #LibraryOfCongress #music

    Alan Lomax (1915 – 2002)

  5. I Be So Glad... When The Sun Goes Down

    Recorded: September 19, 1959 to September 20, 1959
    Contributor(s): Mason, Henry; Roberts, Willie P.; Edmonds, John; Matthews, Willie; Lewis, Robert; Crosby, Oscar; Brown, Wesley Lee; Lewis, Ed;
    Recordist: #AlanLomax
    Genre: #prisonsong #worksong
    Culture: African American, Southern U.S.
    Instruments: hoe(s), voice
    Setting: Camp B, Parchman Farm (Mississippi State Penitentiary)

    youtube.com/watch?v=C-zlSq4mWi

  6. In honour of our new age of #OutlawHeroes, a blast from the past from way back in March 1940, #AlanLomax talking with #WoodyGuthrie about Charles Arthur Floyd whom you all know as #PrettyBoyFloyd

    as through this world I've rambled
    I've seen all kinds of men
    some will rob you with a six-gun
    some with a fountain pen

    youtube.com/watch?v=X3NjJUjkpi
    #folkmusic #folkresistance