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Thread #97890   Message #1931827
Posted By: Azizi
09-Jan-07 - 06:31 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: God's Trombones (James Weldon Johnson)
Subject: RE: Music for 'God's Trombones'?
Oh is it music you want?

Well, how 'bout this little tidbit? Included in a list of famous African Americans from Jacksonville, Florida-along with "James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) early civil rights activist and Harlem Renaissance author" and his younger brother "John Rosamond Johnson (1873-1954) musical composer, brother of James Weldon"...is "Arthur "Blind" Blake (1893-1933) influential blues singer and guitarist, "The King Of Ragtime Guitar."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacksonville,_Florida

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That combination of spirituals and blues would make for an interesting program.