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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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