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Louisiana compilation
Catalogue reference: POAAAM/3/1/4/31
What’s it about?
This record is about the Louisiana compilation dating from c1960s.
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Maybe, but not on The National Archives website. This record is held at Oxford Brookes University: Special Collections.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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POAAAM/3/1/4/31
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Title (The name of the record)
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Louisiana compilation
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Date (When the record was created)
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c1960s
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Description (What the record is about)
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Duration: 1:06:45
Compilation of field recordings made in Louisiana by Harry Oster. The typed tracklist is labelled ‘Louisiana Blues Recordings’. Note that Paul Oliver and Mack McCormick considered parts of Louisiana to be part of a cultural 'Greater Texas'.
Tape contents:
[0:00:04] 01. Herman E. Johnson - C. C. Rider
[0:03:42] 02. Herman E. Johnson - Po’ Boy Long Ways from Home
[0:07:05] 03. Herman E. Johnson - She’s A-Lookin’ for Me
[0:10:38] 04. Herman E. Johnson - Where the Mansions Are Prepared for Me
[0:13:11] 05. Herman E. Johnson - Piano Blues
[0:16:54] 06. Herman E. Johnson - Since Jesus Came into My Heart
[0:20:21] 07. Roosevelt Charles - Mule Blues
[0:25:22] 08. Roosevelt Charles - The Boll Weevil and the Bale Weevil
[0:28:30] 09. Roosevelt Charles - It’s Gettin’ Late in the Evenin’
[0:31:59] 10. Hillary Blunt - Sittin’ a Thousand Miles from Nowhere
[0:33:53] 11. Smoky Babe - Regular Blues
[0:36:33] 12. Smoky Babe - I Went Down 61 Highway
[0:39:16] 13. Guitar Welch - Boll Weevil Blues
[0:43:31] 14. Hogman Maxey - Duckin’ and Dodgin’
[0:47:45] 15. Lucius Bridges & Leon Strickland - Ordinary Blues
[0:50:11] 16. Smoky Babe - Cottonfield Blues
[0:54:30] 17. Andy Moseley - Lorraine Blues [restarts after opening]
[0:58:35 / 1:02:45] 18. Robert Pete Williams - Finding Another Boss [listed as one track, but apparently two different songs making reference to a ‘Bossman’]
[1:05:59] 20. Clyde Causey - Teaching Science [fragment - cuts out after opening]Original file name [based on confusion with a different unboxed reel]: POAAAM - Red unlabelled unboxed reel
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Oxford Brookes University: Special Collections
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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1 item
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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All users external to the University are required to register before using the collections. Collections must be viewed in the Special Collections Reading Room and users must abide by the Reading Room regulations.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/8b56a8ad-3ca4-4e7a-be16-145e7b3a6dc7/
Series information
POAAAM/3
Audio and video material
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Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at Oxford Brookes University: Special Collections
Within the fonds: POAAAM
Paul Oliver Archive of African American Music
Within the series: POAAAM/3
Audio and video material
Within the sub-series: POAAAM/3/1
Reel tape recordings
Within the file: POAAAM/3/1/4
Texas blues research
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Louisiana compilation