Pt. 2. Blues and hollers: "Being lonesome" songs

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Blues and hollers. (Excerpts from) Red River blues (Frank Evans) ; Wasn't I lucky? (Irvin "Gar Mouth" Lowry) ; Another man done gone (Vera Hall) ; I'm gwine to Texas (Richard Amerson) ; A discussion of the blues (Woody Guthrie, speaker) ; Prison blues (Robert Higgins) ; Mule skinners' hollers (Henry Truvillion) ; Country rag ; Two white horses (Smith Casey).


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