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Interview with and music performance by blues singer Richard Williams

Type:

Sound

Date:

05/27/1978

Item:

Audio recording

Series:

S1576

Item ID:

T78-328 - T78-329

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  • Unidentified song (T78-328, Side 1)
  • Polk County Blues
  • Baby Please Don't Go
  • Polk County Blues
  • Squeeze Me
  • John Henry
  • Sitting on Top of the World
  • Unidentified song
  • Polk County Blues
  • Old Forty
  • Squeeze Me
  • Travel the Whole World Around
  • Old Forty (continued on Side 2)
  • Take Me Baby
  • Polk County Blues
  • You Got to Move
  • In the Morning
  • Trial and Judgment
  • Do Lord, Remember Me
  • Set Song
  • Careless Love
  • Uncle Sam is a Dangerous Man
  • Polk County Blues
  • John Henry
  • Old Forty
  • Working on a Building
  • Glory, Glory
  • When the Saints Go Marching In (continued on T78-329)
  • When the Morning Comes
  • I Will Fly Away
  • Trouble Trouble
  • Polk County Blues
  • Baby Please Don't Go
  • Unidentified song
  • Squeeze Me
  • John Henry
  • Sitting On Top of the World

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General Note/Comment

  • Two reel to reels. See also a second interview, and music performance, by Williams (and Ella Mae Wilson) on reels T83-65 through T83-69, in S 1576, also recorded by Devane and Bulger. A third interview can be found on C77-33 and C77-34, in S 1576, box 1.

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