"Blues Around My Bed" (3:48
min.)
by George Henry Bussey
Recorded in Waverly Hall, GA in 1969. (Clip
courtesy George Mitchell and Fat
Possum Records.)
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"Blues Around My Bed" (3:48
min.)
by George Henry Bussey
Recorded in Waverly Hall, GA in 1969. (Clip
courtesy George Mitchell and Fat
Possum Records.) |
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"Blues All Around My Bed" (2:34
min.)
by Precious Bryant
Recorded in Buena Vista, GA in 2001. Precious Bryant is the niece of George Henry Bussey, so note the similarities and differences between her version and her uncle's version above. (Clip courtesy
of Terminus
Records.) |
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"Them Greasy Greens" (2:29 min.)
by Jim Bunkley
Recorded in Geneva, GA in 1969. (Clip courtesy of George Mitchell and Fat
Possum Records.) |
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"Don't Nothing Hurt Me But My Back
and Side"
(2:44 min.) by Albert Macon and Robert Thomas
Recorded in Society Hill, AL in the early 1980's. (Clip courtesy of George Mitchell and Fat
Possum Records.)
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Unnamed harmonica tune (1:04 min.)
by George Daniel
Recorded in 1979 by George Mitchell. (Clip courtesy of George Mitchell.) |
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"Corrinna" (5:45 min.)
by J.W. Warren
Recorded in Ariton, AL in 1981. Warren performs a talking blues version of "Corrinna" that he discusses in an interview with George Mitchell (RealMedia, 17:45 min. (Clip courtesy of George Mitchell and Fat
Possum Records.) |
Recorded in Dranesville, GA in 1969.
George Mitchell sees a connection
between the blues sound of the Lower Chattahoochee Valley and the
Mayday tradition of "pole plattin'" in which two guitarists
strum bright rhythmic patterns as ribbons are wrapped around the
Maypole. (Note Scott's comments about this at the end of the song.)
(Clip courtesy of George Mitchell and Fat
Possum Records.) |
"Every Time I Go to Town You Better Stop
Kicking My Dog Around" (3:15 min.)
by the Georgia Fife and Drum Band.
Recorded in Waverly Hall, GA in 1969. |
In Red River Blues, Bruce Bastin provides insightful information
about this group: "Perhaps Mitchell's most interesting discovery
was the presence of a fife-and-drum tradition in the country between
Waverly Hall and Talbotton, northeast of Columbus. Until recently
it was assumed that the tradition of fife-and-drum music was uniquely
that of north Mississippi around Senatobia...The similarities of
the music of the Senatobia and Waverly Hall groups hints that the
music was probably more widespread than appreciated....The Georgia
fife-and-drum group was essentially a family band comprising J.W.
Jones on bamboo cane fife and his brother James on kettle drum,
with the bass drum played by either a younger brother, Willie C.
Jones, or a cousin, Floyd Bussey."
Precious Bryant discusses this band in this video clip (Clips courtesy of George Mitchell and Fat
Possum Records.) |
Recorded in Waverly Hall, GA in 1969. George
Mitchell comments (RealMedia, 1:04 min.)
on the rich tradition of buck dancing in the Lower Chattahoochee
Valley.
(Clip courtesy of George Mitchell and Fat
Possum Records.) |
Recorded in Talbotton, GA in 1969.
(Clip courtesy of George Mitchell and Fat
Possum Records.) |
"When the Saints Go Marching In"
(2:44 min.)
by Precious Bryant |
Recorded in Buena Vista, GA in 2001. Compare
Bryant's version to Paschal's version above.
(Clip courtesy of Terminus
Records.) |
