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Black Traditional Music Practitioners
Piedmont Blūz Acoustic Duo
The Piedmont Blūz acoustic duo are ambassadors of Country Blues music and the Piedmont style of fingerpicking, and their mission is to help preserve these rural, east coast traditions by educating audiences about this unique aspect of African American culture through musical entertainment. The husband…

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Black Traditional Music Practitioners
Corey Harris
Guitarist, Songwriter, Singer, Performer and Revolutionary, Corey Harris is a current Black Traditional Music Practitioner. Corey Harris has earned substantial critical acclaim as one of the few contemporary bluesmen able to channel the raw, direct emotion of acoustic Delta blues without coming off as…

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FIELD RECORDINGS
Casey Smith – Mourning Blues
Published By Lamont Jack Pearley During a 1939 folklorist excursion to the Clemens State Prison Farm, John Lomax and his wife Ruby recorded several musicians as they stayed on the Varner-Hogg Plantation in West Columbia and drove about 15 miles to Clemens. There they recorded Blues…

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Hot Supper
Hot Supper
Published/Written by Lamont Jack Pearley In the late 1980’s throughout the 1990’s I attended several social gatherings from the south to the northeast in which I had no idea, that in fact, I was living a piece of history and tradition shared by my ancestors.…

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FIELD RECORDINGS New Age
Roosevelt ‘Giant’ Hudson – Field Holler
Published By: Lamont Jack Pearley John and Ruby Lomax recorded Roosevelt 'Giant' Hudson at the Cummins State Farm in Gould, Arkansas, Camp #1 Jack Dappa Blues Public Media and Heritage Preservation Foundation reintroduces African American Traditional Music and the Black Experience to the People of the…

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FIELD RECORDINGS
Elisha Cox – WPA Slave Narrative
Published By: Lamont Jack Pearley Jack Dappa Blues has been producing podcasts re-introducing the WPA's Slave Narrative to our audience. We are currently working on more...however, here's a nice littles something to wet your whistle. Jack Dappa Blues Public Media is where you come to be…

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