Yeah, I could sit around and listen to this for a while.

Song leader and Mississippi State Penitentiary inmate Heuston Earms discusses work-songs, his time in the penitentiary, his childhood and parents' fights, and the murder that landed him in prison. Recorded by Alan Lomax at Parchman's Camp B, Lambert, Miss., September 19-20, 1959. Earms told Lomax he was eligible for parole in 1962; when and if he got out of Parchman is unknown. He died July 4, 1989. His place of death was listed as Tutwiler, Miss., 16 miles southwest of the Lambert camp. 

Interview with Parchman Farm inmate Heuston Earms (1959)

"Robert Dennis was born in 1914 about fifteen miles from Jonesville in an Alachua County community called Half Moon. When he was in his early twenties, after moving to Jonesville to farm, Dennis began playing the guitar, learning from family and local musicians as well as from commercial recordings, and often playing for house parties in the area."  — from <i>Drop on Down in Florida: Field Recordings of African American Traditional Music 1977-1980</i> http://dust-digital.com/florida

"Boogie" by Robert Dennis

Jonathan Ward runs the Blog Excavated Shellac, where he uploads rare 78 rpm records. Plus he compiled the 4-CD Box «Opika Pende – Africa At 78 RPM», Grammy nominee for best historical album of 2012. In this Norient.com podcast Ward tells me about his fascination with shellac, about how bloggers and ethnomusicologists don’t meet, and about a typical phenomena: «Blogger fatigue». Keep checking out his work! By Thomas Burkhalter, norient.com. More Info: http://norient.com/podcasts/the-world-at-78-rpm/

"Boogie" by Robert Dennis

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