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Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 11:35:02 -0700
From: Tom Ball
Subject: Alabama Blues

Glenn wrote:
>And in general, I don't think many Alabama blues players on any instrument
>were ever recorded-the prewar talent scouts didn't go into the state much,
>from what I've read.
________
While Alabama was visited less often than some other states by the Race
Record field units during the '20s and '30s, there were many early blues
players recorded there, mostly in Birmingham.

Among them: Jaybird Coleman; Sam Collins; R.D. Norwood; Whistling Pete &
Daddy Stovepipe; William Harris; Joe Evans; Bertha Ross; Rev. J.F. Forest;
Rev. I.B. Ware, the Carolina Cotton Pickers; George Tremer; Ollis Martin;
Wiley Barner; Peanut the Kidnapper; Charlie Campbell; Ravizee Singers;
Bogan's Birmingham Busters; Guitar Slim; George Torey; William Blevens
Quartette; Mack Rhineheart & Brownie Stubblefield; and Georgia Slim.

- -TB