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- Subject: Re: SONNY TERRY'S RUNNIN' BLUES
- From: "JACK ELY"@mrgate.mec.ohio.gov
- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 10:47:00 EST
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- Posting-date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 00:00:00 EST
Ted writes... >Harpers, > I put the question earlier but got no response. Again I come begging. >Does anybody know if, and where, Sonny Terry recorded a song called >"Running Blues". I saw him do it about fifteen or twenty years ago in a >film clip/documentary or something. Anybody else see this, know about it. >I still remember one verse-all I could capture of the song. Goes: > >Way down yonder in the crawdad field > ----verse deleted---- >Thanks in advance >Ted Allbritton Ted, I don't have the answer - I scanned Kim Field's book (H,H, & HB) and although the answer isn't there, found possible sources of information. From the H, H,& HB bibliography... Book: "The Harp Styles of Sonny Terry" as told to Kent Cooper Oak Publications, New York 1975 CD "Sonny Terry, The Folkways Years, 1944-1963" (A fine new anthology of this brilliant stylist's classic recordings for Folkways). Smithsonian Folkways RDSF 40033 Also, H,H,& HB mentions that Sonny recorded on "Vocalion" in 1938 with Blind Boy Fuller. I assume Vocalion is another (defunct) recording company. So I thought maybe the answer may be in the library or on some CD liner notes. Good luck, Jack Ely ely.j@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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