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Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 02:14:11 -0400
From: "glen~lbany.net"
Subject: Re: Alabama

> Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 11:35:02 -0700
> From: Tom Ball
> Subject: Alabama Blues
>
> Glenn wrote:
> >And in general, I don't think many Alabama blues players on any
instrument
> >were ever recorded-the prewar talent scouts didn't go into the state
much,
> >from what I've read.
> ________
> While Alabama was visited less often than some other states by the Race
> Record field units during the '20s and '30s, there were many early blues
> players recorded there, mostly in Birmingham.
>
> Among them: Jaybird Coleman; Sam Collins; R.D. Norwood; Whistling Pete &
> Daddy Stovepipe; William Harris; Joe Evans; Bertha Ross; Rev. J.F. Forest;
> Rev. I.B. Ware, the Carolina Cotton Pickers; George Tremer; Ollis Martin;
> Wiley Barner; Peanut the Kidnapper; Charlie Campbell; Ravizee Singers;
> Bogan's Birmingham Busters; Guitar Slim; George Torey; William Blevens
> Quartette; Mack Rhineheart & Brownie Stubblefield; and Georgia Slim.
>
> - -TB
>
Peanut the Kidnapper! Famous for his cashewal attitude towards violence, as
I seem to
recall.
Tom, thanks for the list-I've only heard of half these guys. You da man here
as always
with the prewar stuff.

- -Glenn Weiser