Alan Lomax Archive | Bill Tatnall: Looking for the Bully of the Town (1935) @AlanLomaxArchive | Uploaded July 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
Bill Tatnall, vocal and guitar, and friends perform "Looking for the Bully of the Town." Recorded by Alan Lomax and Zora Neale Hurston at Frederica, Georgia, June 1935. Photo by Lomax. For more information about Alan and John Lomax and their collections, visit http://archive.culturalequity.org.
Bill Tatnall, vocal and guitar, and friends perform "Looking for the Bully of the Town." Recorded by Alan Lomax and Zora Neale Hurston at Frederica, Georgia, June 1935. Photo by Lomax. For more information about Alan and John Lomax and their collections, visit http://archive.culturalequity.org.
![Susan Shepherd: The [1927] Kentucky Flood (1937)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SVrr3GoJwtg/hqdefault.jpg "Susan Shepherd: The [1927] Kentucky Flood (1937)
*In the wake of the devastating flooding that struck Eastern Kentucky on July 27-28, 2022, please considering donating to relief efforts: https://appalshop.org/news/appalachian-flood-support-resources *
A ballad performed (and presumably composed) by Susan Shepherd concerning the May 29-30, 1927 flood in Letcher Co., Kentucky. Recorded by Alan and Elizabeth Lomax at Cumberland, Harlan Co., Kentucky, September 27, 1937. For more from the Lomaxes Kentucky recordings and Alans fieldwork collections in general, visit archive.culturalequity.org. [AFS 1433A & B1]")
