Alan Lomax Archive | 20 - Inspiration: Instrumentalists from the 1939 Texas recordings @AlanLomaxArchive | Uploaded November 2023 | Updated October 2024, 23 hours ago.
Fiddlers, harp blowers, and guitarists recorded by John A. and Ruby T. Lomax during their 1939 Texas field-trip.






1) Frank Goodwyn & Manuel Salinas: Chinese Breakdown (Falfurrias, Brooks County, Texas, April 29, 1939) (archive.culturalequity.org/node/63265)






2) Lake Porter: The Lost Girl (Falfurrias, Brooks County, Texas, April 29, 1939) (archive.culturalequity.org/node/63273)






3) Lake Porter: Drunken Hiccups (Falfurrias, Brooks County, Texas, April 29, 1939) (archive.culturalequity.org/node/63268)






4) Elmo Newcomer: Rye Whiskey (The home of Elmo Newcomer, Pipe Creek, Bandera County, Texas, May 3, 1939) (archive.culturalequity.org/node/63345)






[see here for Newcomer's later Cro-Mart release (youtube.com/watch?v=fcPRwNw18d4) of "Rye Whiskey."]






5) Elmo Newcomer: The Old Grey Mare (The home of Elmo Newcomer, Pipe Creek, Bandera County, Texas, May 3, 1939) (archive.culturalequity.org/node/63339)






6) Clinton Saathoff, and Otis Evans: Eeph Caught A Rabbit (Pipe Creek, Bandera County, Texas, May 4, 1939) (archive.culturalequity.org/node/63349)






7) Pop Warner: Inspiration (State Penitentiary [The Walls], Huntsville, Walker County, Texas, May 11, 1939) (archive.culturalequity.org/node/63404)






[see here (themarshallproject.org/2016/05/16/a-peek-at-the-golden-age-of-prison-radio#:~:text=In%201938%2C%20as%20the%20Great,strumming%2C%20dancing%2C%20and%20acting) for the fine Marshall Project piece on prison radio, which includes a discussion of "Thirty Minutes Behind the Walls" and the Ace Johnson photo discussed in the episode.]






8) Ace Johnson: Rabbit in the Garden (Dormitory, Clemens State Farm, Brazoria, Brazoria County, Texas, April 16, 1939) (archive.culturalequity.org/node/63164)






9) Ace Johnson: Train song (Dormitory, Clemens State Farm, Brazoria, Brazoria County, Texas, April 16, 1939) (archive.culturalequity.org/node/63178)






10) Smith Casey: East Texas Rag, (Dormitory, Clemens State Farm, Brazoria, Brazoria County, Texas, April 16, 1939) (archive.culturalequity.org/node/63450)






11) L.W. Gooden: Clemens Rag (Dormitory, Clemens State Farm, Brazoria, Brazoria County, Texas, April 16, 1939) (archive.culturalequity.org/node/63452)






Bed Music:






Wilbert Gilliam: Long Freight Train Blues (State Penitentiary [The Walls], Huntsville, Walker County, Texas, May 11, 1939) (archive.culturalequity.org/node/63393)