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Thread #134788   Message #3069009
Posted By: josepp
06-Jan-11 - 11:07 PM
Thread Name: Have blacks rejected blues?
Subject: RE: Have blacks rejected blues?
I thought Willie Brown died in '52. I could be wrong. I know son House laid his guitar down for a while and I know Howlin' Wolf was really pissed about it. And, yes, I know there are no photos of Willie Brown.

As for Lomax, I have his prison recordings, the Muddy Waters recordings, one called "Negro Blues and Hollers" and I have a shit load of the Speir artists. I think I have a little of everyone--Garfield Akers, Geeshie Wiley, Tommy Johnson, Pig Norwood, Tommy McClennan, Rube Lacey, Henry Thomas, Frank Stokes, Bo Carter, Lucille Bogan, Memphis Minnie, William Harris, Ishmon Bracey. A little of everything. I got a lot of John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Blind Blake, Son House, Robert Johnson, B.B., Lightnin' Hopkins, Patton, Blind Lemon, Willie McTell. And so on. gotta git what you can git.