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Thread #16130   Message #149249
Posted By: Abby Sale
14-Dec-99 - 09:41 AM
Thread Name: Smith/Folkways' Watson & Ashley CD
Subject: RE: BS: Smith/Folkways' Watson & Ashley CD
Bruce,

Re "Inferno" collection, far as I know there's still no online or printed index or publication. If you do a "f" search at LC on "Inferno" you get the general ref & cite numbers & general contents (all the songs in Inferno are simply outtakes from his general collections & so indicated.)

I did manage to scarf the entire "Inferno" collection, however, as xerox of the typescript. It took two years and many money but I have it. All I've actually done with it is learn a few songs and pass a few appropriate bawdy samples to sea song (Hugh Williamson) or hobo collectors.

There's a typed Contents (it should be online by now but I don't know) and I did scan it & OCR it so I can refer & sent the titles file if you like. There's no ref to "rising" or "sun" but titles are not always as they seem, are they?

Should this be a separate thread?