Lonesome road blues

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Performed by: The Blue Ridge Duo (Gene Austin and George Reneau) Record format: Edison Diamond Disc Matrix number: 9727-B-4-5 Release number: 51515-R Recording date: September 22, 1924 Release date: May 1925 NPS object catalog number: EDIS 42868.



Gene Austin (June 24, 1900 – January 24, 1972) was an American singer and songwriter, one of the first "crooners". His 1920s compositions "When My Sugar Walks Down the Street" and "The Lonesome Road" became pop and jazz standards.

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Artist/Composer: The Blue Ridge Duo
Keywords: blues
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Rollin' and Tumblin' Hambone Willie Newbern

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Ripped from the original 78 (mono). Beautifully remastered! This audio is part of the collection: Open Source Audio. Keywords: opensource audio; blues; delta blues; roots; 78; mono. Creative Commons license: Public Domain Hambone Willie Newburn - "Roll And Tumble Blues"

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Hambone Willie Newbern (1899-1947) Blues musician from the Brownsville, Tennessee area along Tennessee State Route 19. He is said to have played with Yank Rachell and Sleepy John Estes in the 1920s and '30s. He recorded one of the earliest known versions of the blues standard "Rollin' and Tumblin'" in 1929. Newbern was beaten to death in a prison brawl, around 1947 Hambone Willie Newbern

Recorded in 1929, this is the earliest recorded version of the blues classic. Unfortunately Hambone Willie Newburn was known more for his temper then guitar playing. He died in a prison riot in 1947. Hambone Willie Newburn – “Roll And Tumble Blues”

New York Blues AUDIO

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New York blues - rag classical, Performed by: Pietro Frosini - accordion Composed by: Pietro Frosini, Record format: Edison Diamond Disc. Matrix number: 4998-B-1-6. Recording date: 1916. Release number: 50454-L. Release date: February 1918. NPS object catalog number: EDIS 41040

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The archive at Edison National Historic Site includes approximately 48,000 disc and cylinder records produced by Edison in West Orange, New Jersey, between 1888 and 1929. Many of these, including unreleased and experimental recordings, have been at the Laboratory since Edison's lifetime. Some of the earliest examples of recorded sound in existence are preserved within this unique collection.

New York Blues Ragtime Classical

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New York blues - rag classical, Performed by: Pietro Frosini - accordion. Composed by: Pietro Frosini. Record format: Edison Diamond Disc, Matrix number: 4998-B-1-6, Recording date: 1916, Release number: 50454-L, Release date: February 1918. NPS object catalog number: EDIS 41040



Pietro Frosini (1885-1951) was one of the first famous "stars of the accordion." He was born in Catania, Sicily, in 1885 and began to play the chromatic button accordion at the age of six. In 1905 he emigrated to San Francisco and was discovered by a talent scout for the Orpheum Vaudeville Circuit.

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Artist/Composer: Edison National Historic Site National Park Service
Keywords: New York Blues; Pietro Frosini; Ragtime; Edison
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Farewell Blues AUDIO

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Farewell Blues - 1923 - Words & Music by Elmer Schoebel, Paul Mares & Leon Rappolo.

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Composition Licence: This MP3 (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, where Works published prior to 1978 were copyright protected for a maximum of 75 years. See Circular 1 "COPYRIGHT BASICS" from the U.S. Copyright Office. Works published before 1924 are now in the public domain.

Author: U.S. Air Force Band
Keywords: Blues; Dixieland; Music; Jazz
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

The Wabash Blues AUDIO

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The Wabash Blues: 1921 Music by: Fred Meinken, Lyrics by: Dave Ringle

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Author: U.S. Air Force Band
Keywords: Wabash Blues; Dixieland Music
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Alabama Red (Murder ballad - original) AUDIO

"Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 consists of approximately one hundred sound recordings, primarily blues and gospel songs, and related documentation from the folk festival at Fort Valley State College (now Fort Valley State University), Fort Valley, Georgia. The documentation was created by John Wesley Work III in 1941 and by Lewis Jones and Willis Laurence James in March, June, and July 1943.

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PERFORMER(S) Stripling, Sydney; banjo, COLLECTED BYL Work, John, DATE: 1941, FORMAT: Sound Recording, NOTES GENRE: Ballad, CALL NUMBER: AFS 5155a1, DIGITAL ID: afcftv 5155a1

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The special character of collections that result from ethnographic field research is outlined in What is an Ethnographic Field Collection?. The American Folklife Center and the professional fieldworkers who carry out these projects feel a strong ethical responsibility to the people they have visited and who have consented to have their lives documented for the historical record. The Center asks that researchers approach the materials in this collection with respect for the culture and sensibilities of the people whose lives, ideas, and creativity are documented here.

As is often the case with materials collected in the course of ethnographic field research, however, it is difficult or impossible to sufficiently identify specific songs sung by participants which precludes performing a comprehensive assessment of the copyright status of underlying musical rights in lyrics or compositions. Research performed by the staff of the American Folklife Center in anticipation of the release of this Collection in American Memory indicates that the underlying musical works appear to be in the public domain.

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