This week Scott Barretta investigates Volume Two of the Revenant Records album American Primitive featuring classic music from the 1920s by Otto Virgil, the Mississippi Moaner, Henry Spaulding, William Harris, Geechie Wiley, Mattie Mae Thomas, Elizabeth Johnson, Bailus Rose, Walter Taylor, Blues Birdhead, Pigmeat Terry, Alfred Harris, and Tennessee’s Two Poor Boys.
The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
AMERICAN PRIMITIVE
HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 24
Scott Barretta, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, September 16, 2006 [18089]
Otto Virgil: Little Girl in Rome
Mississippi Moaner: It’s Cold In China Blues
Henry Spaulding: Cairo Blues
William Harris: Kansas City Blues
Geechie Wiley: Last Kind Words
Mattie Mae Thomas: Work House Blues
Mattie Mae Thomas: Dangerous Blues
Elizabeth Johnson: Be My Kid Blues
Geechie Wiley: Pick Poor Robin Clean
Bailus Rose: Black Dog Blues
Walter Taylor: Deal Rag
William Harris: Hot Time Blues
Blues Birdhead: Mean Low Blues
Pigmeat Terry: Moaning the Blues
Alfred Harris: Mississippi Swamp Moan
Two Poor Boys: Two White Horses in a Line
Otto Virgil: Bad Notion Blues
William Harris: Bullfrog Blues
Bailus Rose: Frisco Blues
A JOINT PRODUCTION
Hosted by Scott Barretta for Radio Free Amsterdam
Produced & recorded by Joe Yorke at the University of Mississippi
Post-production, editing & annotation by John Sinclair
Executive Producer: Steve Pratt
© 2006, 2018 Scott Barretta. Used with permission.