MUS 365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Blind Lemon Jefferson, Hobart Smith, Vocalion Records
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Part 10: southern blues performers & their audiences, texas blues, his performances and paramount"s marketing were so successful that. Jefferson cut 81 records between 1925 and 1928 in a range of styles that included religious and prison material, moans, and breakdowns. Burnett: henry c speir who owned a music store in jackson, worked an a&r man for gennett records of richmond, indiana in 1929, he arranged for patton to go to richmond and record an initial series for. Although his wife said that he was singing it at least 5 years before the recording when they first met: other blues performers recorded variants of the song, including son. House"s pony blues, big joe williams, my grey pony, johnny temple"s. Linclon) and his friend, curley weaver, formed the nucleus of the best of the atlanta blues musicians: born robert hicks in 1902 near atlanta in the village of walnut grove,
