Alan Lomax Archive | Ervin Webb and group: I'm Going Home + interview (1959) @AlanLomaxArchive | Uploaded May 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
[Begins again after false start.] Composed and led by Ervin Webb with Willie Washington, bass; Bridges Lee Cole, tenor; and J.J. Sanburn, baritone. Webb was 39 years old and six years into a sentence of undisclosed duration. His home was Prichard, Alabama. Recorded by Alan Lomax at the Parchman Farm (Mississippi State Penitentiary) dairy, October 1959. [T919.10-12]
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[Begins again after false start.] Composed and led by Ervin Webb with Willie Washington, bass; Bridges Lee Cole, tenor; and J.J. Sanburn, baritone. Webb was 39 years old and six years into a sentence of undisclosed duration. His home was Prichard, Alabama. Recorded by Alan Lomax at the Parchman Farm (Mississippi State Penitentiary) dairy, October 1959. [T919.10-12]
See more from and about Webb here:
archive.culturalequity.org/taxonomy/term/6175
![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]")
