80 years ago today in Quitman Co., Mississippi, Alan Lomax and Lewis Jones recorded multi-instrumentalist, bandleader and composer Sid Hemphill (1876–1961) — considered the musical patriarch of the Mississippi Hill Country — and his band at a picnic at a place called the Fives. This session included the first recordings...
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Clyde "Judas" Maxwell sings "You Got to Cross That River of Jordan" with his wife Bea and friends Lilian Simpson and Fannie McCullough. Shot by Alan Lomax, John Bishop, and Worth Long at Maxwell's farm in Madison Co., Mississippi, September 3, 1978.
Happy holidays from your friends at the Association for Cultural Equity! Here is a classic performance of Vera Ward Hall singing Last Month of the Year
This session of oral history and songs represents the only time that Vera Ward Hall left her home state of Alabama. She was invited...
