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5 audio discs ; 4 3/4 in. |
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performed music prm rdacontent |
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audio s rdamedia |
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audio disc sd rdacarrier |
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digital optical rda |
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audio file rda |
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CD audio |
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Compact discs. |
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"From Delta blues to fiddle tunes, Cajun, Tex-Mex, Native American, Hawaiian, cowboy and gospel songs ..."--Container. |
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Title from disc label. |
| Performer |
Various performers. |
| Event |
Recorded 1922-1936. |
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Originally released as Columbia, Victor, Vocalion, Brunswick, Okeh, Perfect, Banner, ARC, Bluebird, Paramount, Champion, Gennett, Flexo, and Melotone 78 rpm discs. |
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Program notes by Bernard MacMahon and others, and lyrics with English translations (93 pages : illustrations (some color)) bound in container. |
| Contents |
Disc one, The Southeast : Memphis, Bristol, Johnson City, Louisville, Ashland, Charlotte. The coo-coo bird (Clarence Ashley) -- On the road again (Memphis Jug Band) -- The Panama Limited (Washington White) -- Indian war whoop (Hoyt Ming and his Pep Steppers) -- 'Tain't nobody business if I do (part 1) (Frank Stokes) -- K.C. Railroad blues (Andrew and Jim Baxter) -- I am bound for the promised land (Alfred G. Karnes) -- Cottonfield blues (part 2) (Garfield Akers) -- I wish I was a mole in the ground (Bascom Lamar Lunsford) -- Down on Penny's farm (the Bentley Boys) -- Foldin' bed (Whistler's Jug Band) -- Greenback dollar (Weems String Band) -- Tallahatchie River blues (Mattie Delaney) -- Walk right in (Cannon's Jug Stompers) -- Bury me under the weeping willow (the Carter Family) -- Old dog Blue (Jim Jackson) -- Bayou Teche (Columbus Fruge) -- Cool drink of water blues (Tommy Johnson) -- Train on the island (J.P. Nester) -- |
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Disc two, Atlanta : the origin of commercial field recording. My heart keeps singing (Elder J.E. Burch) -- Ninety-nine year blues (Julius Daniels) -- I get my whiskey from Rockingham (Earl Johnson and his Clodhoppers) -- Death's black train is coming (Rev. J.M. Gates) -- Waiting for a train (Jimmie Rodgers) -- Darling, where have you been so long? (Tenneva Ramblers) -- Rocky road (Alabama Sacred Harp Singers) -- Ma blonde est partie (Amédée Breaux, Ophy Breaux, and Cleoma Breaux) -- Peg and awl (Carolina Tar Heels) -- Chocolate to the bone (Barbecue Bob) -- Down on me (Eddie Head and family) -- Prenez courage (Cleoma Breaux with Joseph Falcon and Orphy Breaux) -- Pickin' off peanuts (Dilly and his Dill Pickles) -- Just because (Nelstone's Hawaiians) -- Dupree blues (Willie Walker) -- Ladies on the steamboat (Burnett and Rutherford) -- Mamma, 'tain't long fo' day (Blind Willie McTell) -- |
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Disc three, New York City, East Coast : the birthplace of electric recording. Cecilia (Cuarteto Flores) -- La coquetera (los Borinquenos) -- Coconito (Guty Cardenas y Lencho) -- Lovesick blues (Emmett Miller) -- Long tall mama (Big Bill Broonzy) -- John Henry blues (Two Poor Boys) -- Mr. Tom Hughes' town (Lead Belly) -- Louis Collins (Mississippi John Hurt) -- I am the light of the world (Blind Gary Davis) -- Fifty miles of elbow room (Rev. F.W. McGee) -- Chant of the eagle dance (Hopi Indian Chanters) -- Hilo hula (Hilo hanakahi) (Mike Hanapi and Ilima Islanders) -- If the river was whiskey (Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers) -- Stackalee (Frank Hutchison) -- The wreck of the '97 (Ernest Stoneman) -- Faded coat of blue (Buell Kazee) -- Country blues (Dock Boggs) -- Sail away ladies (Uncle Dave Macon and his Fruit-Jar Drinkers) -- Sail away lady (Uncle Bunt Stephens) -- Sallie Gooden (A.C. (Eck) Robertson) -- Arkansas traveler (Don Richardson) -- |
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Disc four, the Midwest : Chicago, St. Louis, Richmond, Grafton. Hard time blues (Lane Hardin) -- Down the dirt road blues (Charley Patton) -- Poor boy, long ways from home (Banjo Joe) -- Hastings Street (Blind Blake and Charlie Spand) -- See that my grave's kept clean (Blind Lemon Jefferson) -- Gonna have 'lasses in the morning (Golden Melody Boys) -- New Orleans stop time (Bumble Bee Slim and Memphis Minnie) -- Prove it on me blues (Ma Rainey) -- I'm gonna die with my hammer in my hand (Williamson Brothers and Curry) -- Last kind words blues (Geeshie Wiley) -- Banjoreno (Dixieland Jug Blowers) -- It's a good thing (Beale Street Sheiks (Stokes and Sane)) -- Trust in God and do the right (Blind Willie Davis) -- Someday baby blues (Sleepy John Estes) -- Lonesome road blues (Sam Collins) -- Future blues (Willie Brown) -- Bull doze blues (Henry Thomas "Ragtime Texas") -- Brown skin gal (down the lane) (Massey Family) -- Henry Lee (Dick Justice) -- Old country rock (William Moore) -- La danseuse = The dancer (Delma Lachney and Blind Uncle Gaspard) -- My black mama (parts 1 & 2) (Son House) -- Cypress grove blues (Skip James) -- |
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Disc five, the Deep South & the West : Birmingham, Jackson, Hattiesburg, New Orleans, Shreveport, Dallas, San Antonio, Los Angeles, San Francisco. Cross road blues (Robert Johnson) -- Mal hombre (Lydia Mendoza) -- Sunshine Special (Frenchy's String Band) -- Old Jim Kinnane's (Robert Wilkins) -- Les blues de voyage = Travel blues (Amédée Ardoin and Dennis McGee) -- The lost child (Stripling Brothers) -- I'm gonna cross the River of Jordan some of these days (Jaybird Coleman) -- Tomi tomi (the Aloha Serenaders featuring Sol K. Bright) -- Sittin' on top of the world (Mississippi Sheiks) -- James Alley blues (Richard "Rabbit" Brown) -- The Indian tom tom (Big Chief Henry's Indian String Band) -- Blues in a bottle (Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers) -- Je me suis en alle (Berthmost Montet and Joswell Dupuis) -- Dark was the night, cold was the ground (Blind Willie Johnson) -- E, mama ea (Sol Hoʻopiʻi and his Novelty Trio) -- Ghost dance (Truett and George) -- Woke up this morning (with my mind on Jesus) (Roosevelt Graves and brother) -- Allons à Lafayette (Joseph Falcon) -- Corrido de Joaquín Murrieta (parts 1 & 2) (los Madrugadores) -- Denomination blues (parts 1 & 2) (Washington Phillips). |
| Subject |
Americana (Music).
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Popular music -- United States -- 1921-1930.
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Popular music -- United States -- 1931-1940.
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Blues (Music).
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Cajun music.
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Old-time music.
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| Genre/Form |
Popular music.
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| Added Author |
Ashley, Clarence, 1895-1967, performer.
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White, Bukka, performer.
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Ming, Hoyt, 1902-1985, performer.
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Stokes, Frank, performer.
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Baxter, Andrew, performer.
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Baxter, Jim (Musician), performer.
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Karnes, Alfred G., 1891-1958, performer.
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Akers, Garfield, performer.
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Lunsford, Bascom Lamar, 1882-1973, performer.
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Delaney, Mattie, performer.
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Jackson, Jim, -1937, performer.
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Fruge, Columbus, 1907-1980, performer.
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Johnson, Tommy, approximately 1896-1956, performer.
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Nester, J. P. (John Preston), 1876-1967, performer.
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Burch, J. E., Elder, performer.
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Daniels, Julius, performer.
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Johnson, Earl, 1886-1965, performer.
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Gates, J. M., Rev, performer.
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Rodgers, Jimmie, 1897-1933, performer.
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Breaux, Amedee, performer.
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Breaux, Ophy, performer.
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Breaux, Cleoma, 1905-1941, performer.
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Barbecue Bob, 1902-1931, performer.
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Head, Eddie, performer.
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Falcon, Joe, 1900-1965, performer.
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Walker, Willie, 1896-1933, performer.
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Burnett, Richard D., 1883-1977, performer.
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Rutherford, Leonard, performer.
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McTell, Blind Willie, performer.
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Cárdenas, Guty, 1905-1932, performer.
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Barcelata, Lorenzo, 1898-1943, performer.
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Miller, Emmett, 1900-1962, performer.
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Broonzy, Big Bill, 1893-1958, performer.
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Leadbelly, 1885-1949, performer.
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Hurt, Mississippi John, 1892-1966, performer.
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Davis, Gary, 1896-1972, performer.
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McGee, F. W. (Ford Washington), 1890-1971, performer.
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Hanapi, Mike, performer.
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Poole, Charlie, 1892-1931, performer.
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Hutchison, Frank, 1897-1945, performer.
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Stoneman, Ernest V, performer.
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Kazee, Buell, 1900-1976, performer.
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Boggs, Dock, 1898-1971, performer.
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Macon, Uncle Dave, 1870-1952, performer.
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Stephens, Uncle Bunt, performer.
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Robertson, Eck, 1887-1975, performer.
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Richardson, Don, 1878-1953, performer.
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Hardin, Lane, performer.
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Patton, Charley, 1891-1934, performer.
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Cannon, Gus, 1883-1979, performer.
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Blind Blake, performer.
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Spand, Charlie, performer.
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Jefferson, Blind Lemon, 1897-1929, performer.
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Bumble Bee Slim, performer.
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Memphis Minnie, 1897-1973, performer.
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Rainey, Ma, 1886-1939, performer.
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Wiley, Geechie, performer.
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Davis, Blind Willie, performer.
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Estes, Sleepy John, 1899-1977, performer.
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Collins, Sam, 1887-1949, performer.
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Brown, Willie, 1900-1952, performer.
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Thomas, Henry, 1874- performer.
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Justice, Dick, 1906-1962, performer.
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Moore, William, 1893-1951, performer.
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Lachney, Delma, 1896-1949, performer.
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Gaspard, Blind Uncle, 1880-1937, performer.
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House, Son, performer.
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James, Skip, 1902-1969, performer.
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Johnson, Robert, 1911-1938, performer.
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Mendoza, Lydia, performer.
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Wilkins, Robert, 1896-1987, performer.
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Ardoin, Amadé, performer.
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McGee, Dennis, performer.
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Coleman, Jaybird, performer.
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Bright, Sol K., performer.
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Brown, Richard, -1937, performer.
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Hoopii, Sol, 1902-1953, performer.
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Montet, Berthmost, 1905-1972, performer.
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Dupuis, Joswell, performer.
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Johnson, Blind Willie, performer.
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Truett, Velma Stevens, 1902-1967, performer.
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George, Harry, performer.
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Graves, Roosevelt, performer.
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Phillips, Washington, performer.
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Memphis Jug Band, performer.
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Pep Steppers (Musical group), performer.
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Bently Boys, performer.
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Whistler and His Jug Band, performer.
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Weems String Band, performer.
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Cannon's Jug Stompers, performer.
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Carter Family (Musical group), performer.
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Clodhoppers (Musical group), performer.
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Tenneva Ramblers (Musical group), performer.
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Alabama Sacred Harp Singers, performer.
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Carolina Tar Heels, performer.
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Dilly and His Dill Pickles, performer.
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Nelstone's Hawaiians (Musical group), performer.
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Cuarteto Flores, performer.
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Borinquenos (Musical group), performer.
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Two Poor Boys (Musical group), performer.
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Hopi Indian Chanters, performer.
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Ilima Islanders (Musical group), performer.
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North Carolina Ramblers, performer.
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Fruit Jar Drinkers (Musical group : Uncle Dave Macon), performer.
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Golden Melody Boys (Musical group), performer.
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Williamson Brothers and Curry, performer.
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Dixieland Jug Blowers, performer.
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Beale Street Sheiks, performer.
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Massey Family (Musical group), performer.
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Frenchy's String Band, performer.
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Stripling Brothers, performer.
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Aloha Serenaders, performer.
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Mississippi Sheiks, performer.
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Big Chief Henry's Indian String Band, performer.
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Texas Ramblers, performer.
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Sol Hoopii Trio, performer.
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Madrugadores (Musical group), performer.
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| Note |
Also known as: American epic : the collection |
| Added Title |
American epic (Television program).
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| Standard No. |
00888750996923 gtin-14 |
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888750996923 |
| Music No. |
88875099692 Lo-Max/Third Man Records/Columbia/Legacy (label) |
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88875129012 Lo-Max/Third Man Records/Columbia/Legacy (container) |
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