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Wirz' AMERICAN MUSIC

' W I L L I A M   R O B E R T S O N '; source: Front cover of Southland SLP-5
drawing by Cathy Mitchell
source: Front cover of Southland SLP-5
Cecil Barfield
a/k/a 'William Robertson'
b. December 19, 1921 in Bronwood, Terrell County, Georgia
d. June 10, 1994 in Opa Locka, Miami-Dade County, Florida
discography
C E C I L   B A R F I E L D; source: https://biglegalmessrecords.com/collections/cecil-barfield; photographer: ??? (not George Mitchell)
source: https://biglegalmessrecords.com/collections/cecil-barfield
photographer's name not given [probably Margo Rosenbaum; not George Mitchell!]

#year
of release
title / label # / notes
1197?'William Robertson': South Georgia Blues

- Frolicking Blues
- Lucy Mae Blues   @ youtube
- Hooks In The Water   @ youtube
- Baby, Please Don't Go
- Five Long Years

- Big Legged Woman   @ youtube
- William Robertson Blues
- Lucky Mama Blues
- Talk To Your Daughter
- The Root Blues
- True Love #   @ youtube



originally unissued tracks from same session:
- I Woke Up Crying [Fat Possum GMBOX]
- Love Blues [Fat Possum GMBOX]
- I Told You Not To Do That [Fat Possum GMBOX]

rec. summer 1976 in Albany, GA by George Mitchell; Cecil Barfield, voc, g; # Clifford Scott, g

notes by George Mitchell

Southland SLP-5 (US 197?)

notes by George Mitchell

= Mississippi MR-040 / Big Legal Mess BLM-040 (US 2009)

Southland Records discography

  Cecil Barfield

- Sugar Coated Love
- ???

rec. 1972 / 1977 by Pete Lowry ("enough material for one album, I'd say")

Trix unissued

21981Georgia Blues Today

William Robertson
- Love Blues #   @ youtube
- Baby Please Don't Go #   @ youtube
James Davis
- Old Country Rock
John Lee Ziegler
- Poor Boy (2:44)     @ youtube
- John Henry (4:30)
Jimmy Lee Williams
- Hoot Your Belly And Give Your Backbone Ease (2:45)   @ youtube
- Shortening Bread (2:28)   @ youtube

John Lee Ziegler
- Used To Be Mine But Look Who Got Her Now (4:01)     @ youtube
James Davis
- James' Boogie

William Robertson
- My Babe #   @ youtube
- Hoochie Coochie Wagon #
John Lee Ziegler
- If I Lose Let Me Lose (4:47)   @ youtube
James Davis
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl


# rec. 1976-79 prob. in Albany, GA by George Mitchell; Cecil Barfield, voc, g

notes by George Mitchell and Bruce Bastin

Flyright FLY 576 (UK 1981)


= Fat Possum FP 1080 (US 2007) "The George Mitchell Collection - Georgia Blues Today"

Flyright Records discography

32006Cecil Barfield
The George Mitchell Collection   Vol. 1

- Lucy Mae Blues [Southland SLP-5]
- I Woke Up Crying

- Love Blues
- I Told You Not To Do That

rec. by George Mitchell in Plains, Georgia, late 1970s and early 1980s

7 inch 33 rpm EP

Fat Possum BLM 001 (US 20??)
Fat Possum 71039 (US 2006)

3a2006Cecil Barfield
The George Mitchell Collection

- Love Blues (3:13)
- Sun Goin' Down (2:54)
- Tell Me Rider (3:11)
- See What You Made Me Do (2:09)
- My Babe (3:03)
- Left My Baby Crying (4:23)
- Captain Had A Bulldog (2:52)
- Lonesome House Blues (4:08)
- I Woke Up Crying (1:33)   @ youtube
- Lucy Mae Blues (3:30)
- Big Legged Woman (3:52)
- Five Long Years (4:09)
- William Robertson Blues (5:39)   @ youtube
- Talk To Your Daughter (3:23)
- Root Blues (3:46)
- Hooks In The Water (2:43)
- I Told You Not To Do That (2:35)   @ youtube
- Bottle Up And Go (1:58)   @ youtube
- I Want Your Little Lovin' (3:49)

rec. by George Mitchell in Plains, Georgia, late 1970s and early 1980s


Fat Possum FP 1039   [cover-photo flipped, Cecil Barfield was not left-handed!]

CDr

Fat Possum FP 1039-2 (US 2006)

42006Cecil Barfield
The George Mitchell Collection, Volume 2, Disc 3

- I Woke Up Crying
- Lucy Mae Blues
- Catfish Blues
- The Root Blues
- Bottle Up And Go #1
- Crawling King Snake #1
- Love Blues #1
- Lucy Mae Blues #2
- Mojo Hand
- I Told You Not To Do That
- Big Legged Woman
- Five Long Years
- True Love #1
- William Robertson Blues #1
- Talk To Your Daughter
- Good Love Blues
- Hooks In The Water
- Frolicking Blues
- Love Blues #2
- Baby Please Don't Go #1
- Hoochie Koochie Wagon
- My Babe

rec. by George Mitchell in Plains, Georgia, late 1970s and early 1980s

 2006Cecil Barfield
The George Mitchell Collection, Volume 2, Disc 4

- Sun Going Down   @ youtube
- Love Blues #2
- See What You Did To Me
- Tell Me Rider #1   @ youtube
- Wake Up Rider Rag
- Rock Me
- Paparia Open Your Big Fat Thighs
- Left My Poor Baby Crying
- Getting Down South
- I Wanna Satisfy Your Mind
- Captain Had A Bulldog
- True Love #2
- Lonesome House Blues
- Mellow Peaches
- William Robertson Blues #2
- That's Alright Mama
- Hooks In The Water #2
- I Want Your Little Loving
- Baby Please Don't Go #2
- I Woke Up Crying #2
- Bull Frog Blues

rec. by George Mitchell in Plains, Georgia, late 1970s and early 1980s


Fat Possum (MP3 only)

MP3 at www.amazon.com

 2006Cecil Barfield
The George Mitchell Collection, Volume 2, Disc 5

- Bottle Up And Go #2
- Step It Up And Go
- Crawling King Snake #2
- I Can't Go Home

rec. by George Mitchell in Plains, Georgia, late 1970s and early 1980s


Fat Possum (MP3 only)

MP3 at www.amazon.com

52006Lower Chattahoochie Valley
The George Mitchell Collection

Albert Macon And Robert Thomas
- Flat Foot Boogie
- Don't Nothing Hurt Me But My Back And Side
William Grant
- Jack Of Diamonds
Jimmy Lee Harris
- Sitting Here 1000 Miles
- All Night Long
Cliff Davis
- I've Been Treated So Bad
Lonzie Thomas
- Lonzie Thomas Dragaround
- Red Cross Store
Precious Bryant
- When The Saints Go Marching In
- Georgia Buck

Cecil Barfield
- True Love (3:11) [Southland SLP-5]
- Lonesome House Blues (4:09) [Fat Possum FP 1039-2]
Ray Favors
- Baby Please Don't Go
- Hambone
Ray Favors And James Lloyd
- If I Had My Way



Fat Possum FP 1053 (US 2006)

62006Art Of Field Recording
50 Years Of Traditional Music Documented By Art Rosenbaum

- Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down - Sister Fleeta Mitchell and Rev. Willie Mae Eberhard
- Fred Adams - Ray Rhodes
- La Grondeuse (The Scolding Woman) - Fidel Martin
- Big Foot Feller - Buell Kazee
- Blues - Eddie Bowles
- Tony Gave a Picnic - Ralph Sheckel
- 12th Street Rag - Frosty Lamb and Buzz Fountain
- Eve and Adam (Pickin' Up Leaves) - McIntosh County Shouters
- Five To My Five - Rev. Howard Finster
- Carabina Treinta-Treinta (30-30 Rifle) - Epifanio Sanchez and Group
- I'm Dying, Mother - Bert Hare
- Eternal Day - Georgia Sacred Harp Convention
- Tom Watson Tune - Mabel Cawthorn
- Danish Galop - Dwight "Red" Lamb
- Billy in the Low Ground - Gordon Tanner and Smoky Joe Miller
- Who Killed Poor Robin? - Ollie Gilbert

- Georgia Blues - Cecil Barfield #   @ youtube
- Free Go Lily - Doc and Lucy Barnes
- The Miller's Will - Dr. C. B. Skelton
- Brickyard Joe - John W. Summers
- Old John Henry Died on the Mountain - Henry Grady Terrell
- Big Road Blues - Shirley Griffith
- Fly Around My Blue-Eyed Gal - Lawrence and Vaughn Eller
- Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad - Golden River Grass Group


# rec. July 26, 1987 in Bronwood, GA by Art Rosenbaum; Cecil Barfield, voc, g

CD preview release

Dust-to-Digital DTD 07 (US 2006)

www.dust-digital.com

711/2007Art Of Field Recording Vol. 1
50 Years Of Traditional Music Documented By Art Rosenbaum

disc 3:
- Georgia Bottleneck Blues - Cecil Barfield #   @ youtube
- Carroll County Blues - Gordon Tanner, Smokey Joe Miller & Uncle John Patterson
- Brooks' Blues - Brooks Berry & Scrapper Blackwell
- Key to the Highway - Neal Patman & Bill Giles
- Red River Blues - J. T. Adams
- Nobody's Business - George Childers
- Bowles' Blues - Eddie Bowles
- Got the Blues So Bad - Cliff Sheats
- Guitar Pete's Blues - Guitar Pete Franklin
- Peach Orchard Mama - James Yank Rachel & Shirley Griffith
- Big Leg Women - James Easley, Guitar Pete Franklin & Raymond Holloway
- Leaving Here, Don't Know Where I'm Going - Joe K. Rakestraw & Art Rosenbaum
- The Mogul - Neal Patman
- Deep Ellum Blues - Buford Boyd & Willard Benson
- River Line Blues - Shirley Griffith
- Going Down the Road Feeling Bad - Jake Staggers
- I Cried All Night Long - Harvie Sims
- Maggie Campbell Blues - Shirley Griffith
- How Long Blues - Guitar Pete Franklin
- "A" Blues - Scrapper Blackwell


# rec. July 26, 1987 in Bronwood, GA by Art Rosenbaum & Allan W. MacLeod; Cecil Barfield, voc, g

4-CD set

Dust-to-Digital 08 (US 11/2007)

82007George Mitchell Collection Volumes 1 - 45

disc 1:
- Lucy Mae Blues - Cecil Barfield [Southland SLP-5, Fat Possum BLM 001]
- I Woke Up Crying - Cecil Barfield [Fat Possum BLM 001]
- Love Blues - Cecil Barfield [Fat Possum BLM 001]
- I Told You Not To Do That - Cecil Barfield [Fat Possum BLM 001]
- In the Evening - Buddy Moss
- Hey Lawdy Mama - Buddy Moss
- Thousand Woman Blues - Buddy Moss
- Blue Shadow Falling - Buddy Moss
- Cold Rainy Day - Buddy Moss
- Amy - Buddy Moss
- Motherless Child - Leon Pinson
- Hush, Somebody is Calling My Name - Leon Pinson
- What God Can Do - Leon Pinson
- He'll Understand and Say Well Done - Leon Pinson
- Big Road Blues - Houston Stackhouse
- Cool Water Blues - Houston Stackhouse
- Big Fat Mama Blues - Houston Stackhouse
- Take a Little Walk With Me - Houston Stackhouse
- Everyone Got a Woman - Big Joe Williams
- What She Need With a Rooster - Big Joe Williams
- Sink or Swim - Big Joe Williams
- Prison Bound - Big Joe Williams
- Who's Gonna Be Your Man - John Lee Zeigler
- If I Lose Let Me Lose - John Lee Zeigler
- Black Woman - Othar Turner
- Bumble Bee - Othar Turner


disc 2:
- Rabbit On a Log - Lonzie Thomas
- Raise a Ruckus Tonight - Lonzie Thomas
- My Three Women - Lonzie Thomas
- Red Cross Store - Lonzie Thomas
- Rats In the Kitchen - Sleepy John Estes
- Special Agent - Sleepy John Estes
- Trying To See - Sleepy John Estes
- Mail Man Blues - Sleepy John Estes
- Down Home Blues - Teddy Williams
- Catfish Blues - Teddy Williams
- Black Mattie - Teddy Williams
- Sun Don't Shine - Teddy Williams
- Trouble Brought Me Down - Green Paschal
- My Lord - Green Paschal
- Mother is Dead - Green Paschal
- Lay My Burden Down - Green Paschal
- Your Close Friend - Green Paschal
- I'm Going To Leave It In the Hands of the Lord - Green Paschal
- Hard Time Blues - Do-Boy Diamond
- Just Want To Talk To You - Do-Boy Diamond
- Just a Dream I Got On My Mind - Dewey Corley / Walter Miller
- Memphis is a Wonderful City - Dewey Corey / Walter Miller
- Down To Arkansas - Dewey Corey / Walter Miller
- Rock Me Mama - Bud Grant
- Freight Train Blues - Bud Grant
- So Sweet - Bud Grant
- Bud Grant's Grunt - Bud Grant


disc 3:
- Go Ahead On - Bud White
- You've Been Gone So Long - Bud White
- White Horses - Bud White
- When I'm Sober I'm Drunk Blues - George Henry Bussey
- Mean Mistreater - George Henry Bussey
- Blues Around My Bed - George Henry Bussey
- Looking For My Woman - George Henry Bussey
- Old Red #2 - Jim Bunkley
- Jack of Diamonds - Jim Bunkley
- Them Greasy Greens - Jim Bunkley
- Rocking Chair - Jim Bunkley
- Old Breakdown - Tom Turner
- Drop Down Mama #1 - Tom Turner
- Search Me Lord - James Shorter
- My Mother Died and Left Me - James Shorter
- Consolation - James Shorter
- Home Going - James Shorter
- Better Than Myself - Abe McNeil
- Steady Rollin' Man - Abe McNeil
- Drink Drink Drink - Abe McNeil
- Country Blues - Joe Callicott
- River Blues - Joe Callicott
- 3 O'Clock In the Morning - Johnny Woods
- I's Be Troubled - Johnny Woods


disc 4:
- Someday Baby - Robert Diggs
- Racehorse Charleston - Robert Diggs
- Done Lost My Health - Robert Diggs
- Drive Your Car - Robert Diggs
- Woke Up This Morning - Cliff Scott
- Long Wavy Hair - Cliff Scott
- Please Come Home - Cliff Scott
- Pole Pattin' - Cliff Scott
- I Wanna Ramble - Jimmie Lee Harris
- Sitting Here Looking 1000 Miles Away - Jimmie Lee Harris
- Just Like A Bird Without A Feather - R.L. Burnside
- Skinny Woman - R.L. Burnside
- Goin' Down South - R.L. Burnside
- Poor Black Mattie - R.L. Burnside
- Hold My Body Down - Robert Johnson
- Trying To Make It Home - Robert Johnson
- Precious Lord - Robert Johnson
- He'll Make a Way - Robert Johnson
- Sugar Mama - Robert Longstreet
- Black Gal - Robert Longstreet
- Sloppy Drunk - Robert Longstreet
- Decoration Day - Robert Longstreet
- Shake Em' On Down - Fred McDowell
- Mama Says I'm Crazy - Fred McDowell


disc 5:
- That Ain't It - John Henry Barbee
- Gonna Lose Your Mind - John Henry Barbee
- Flat Foot Boogie - Albert Macon /Robert Thomas
- Mama Can I Lay It Down - Albert Macon / Robert Thomas
- How Can You Do It - Albert Macon / Robert Thomas
- John Henry - Jessie Clarence Gorman
- Goin' Up To the Country #1 - Jessie Clarence Gorman
- Goin' Up To the Country #2 - Jessie Clarence Gorman
- Dirty Dozens - Will Shade
- Won't You Send Me John - Will Shade
- Wine Headed Man - Will Shade
- K.C. Blues - Will Shade/Charlie Burse
- Every Time I Come Around - Georgia Fife & Drum Band
- J.W.'S Special - Georgia Fife & Drum Band
- Old Hen Cackle - Georgia Fife & Drum Band
- Buck Dance - Georgia Fife & Drum Band
- Hey Freddie - Como Fife & Drum Band
- Late In the Evening - Como Fife & Drum Band
- Punky Tony - Como Fife & Drum Band
- Shimmy She Wa - Como Fife & Drum Band
- You Got Reap What You Sow - Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis
- Everything's Gonna Be Alright - Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis
- That's the Way the Good Thing Go - Precious Bryant
- Georgia Buck - Precious Bryant
- When the Saints Go Marching In - Precious Bryant
- Pork & Beans - Rosa Lee Hill
- Count the Days I'm Gone - Rosa Lee Hill
- Roll & Tumble - Rosa Lee Hill
- Bullying Well - Rosa Lee Hill


disc 6:
- Good Morning Judge - Furry Lewis
- Furry Lewis' Careless Love - Furry Lewis
- What Make Grandpa Love Grandma So - Jimmy Lee Williams
- Have You Ever Seen Peaches - Jimmy Lee Williams
- Hoboing Into Hollywood - J.W. Warren
- Sundown Blues - J.W. Warren
- Rabbit On a Log - J.W. Warren
- You're Gonna Miss Me - J.W. Warren
- House On the Hill - Eddie Harris
- I Have To Love Somebody - Eddie Harris
- Old Country Rock #1 - James Davis
- Instrumental #1 - James Davis
- Who Stole the Lock Off the Henhouse Door? - James Davis
- Instrumental #4 - James Davis
- Canned Heat - Robert Nighthawk
- Nighthawk Boogie - Robert Nighthawk
- Down By the Woodshed - Robert Nighthawk
- Home Going - Jessie Mae Hemphill
- I Want To Be Ready - Jessie Mae Hemphill
- Interview - Jessie Mae Hemphill


disc 7 (bonus CD - tracks not on 45s set!)
- Miss Maybelle - Jessie Lee Vortis
- When My Baby Got On Board - Jessie Lee Vortis
- Them Greasy Greens #1 - George Hollis
- Rock and Roll To Midgetville - George Hollis
- Black Rat Swing - Willie Rockomo
- Tease Me Baby #2 - Bruce Upshaw/Willie Rockomo
- Someday Baby #1 - Bruce Upshaw
- Wonder Why My Baby Treat Me So Bad - Bruce Upshaw
- Rosa Lee - Bruce Upshaw
- I Got a Woman - Buddy Hubbard
- So Sweet - Buddy Hubbard
- You're Gonna Miss Me - Ira "Tiny" Coney
- Mamie - Ira "Tiny" Coney
- I'm So Lonesome - Ira "Tiny" Coney
- Blood Red River - Eddie Hodge
- Sitting On Top of the World - Eddie Hodge
- Glory Hallelujah - Eddie Hodge
- Jesus is Coming Back To Me - Pettis Sisters
- Bound For Zion - Pettis Sisters
- You Told Me Baby - Houston & Sara Mae Stovall
- Sweet As an Apple On a Tree - Houston & Sara Mae Stovall
- Juke #2 - Houston & Sara Mae Stovall
- Woke Up This Morning - Houston & Sara Mae Stovall
- Tell Me You Love Me - Houston & Sara Mae Stovall


7 CD set [with 24-pp. booklet!]
or forty-five 45s [without 7th bonus CD!]
notes by Sam Sweet with George Mitchell

Fat Possum FP 1114-2 (US 2007)
= Fat Possum GMBOX-2 (US 2008)

92008Art Of Field Recording Vol. 2

disc 1 - Survey:
Fidel Martin - La Grondeuse (1:55)
Eddie Bowles - Blues (4:13)
Frosty Lamb & Buzz Fountain - 12th Street Rag (1:44)
Dwight Lamb - Danish Galop (1:15)
Tony Bryant - Broken Down Engine (4:12)
The Balfa Brothers & Nathan Abshire -J'ai passé devant la porte (2:58)
The Balfa Brothers & Nathan Abshire - Colinda (1:38)
Jake Staggers - Garfield 2:23)
Bobby McMillon - The Devil Song (Child 275) (5:14)
John W. Summers - Unnamed Tune (2:04)
Kirk Brandenberger & Art Rosenbaum - Going Across The Prairie (3:52)
Uncle John Patterson - Muddy Roads Of Georgia (3:08)

Cecil Barfield - Georgia Blues (5:15)
Mary Lomax - Billy Staffer (The State Of Arkansas) (Laws H1) (2:57)
Eller Brothers - Cindy In The Summertime (2:17)
Ross Brown & Howard Cunningham - General Lee's Surrender (2:06)
Neal Patman - Shortnin' Bread (1:47)
Juanita Shehan & Oscar "Shorty" Shehan - Free Little Bird (1:47)
Juanita Shehan & Oscar "Shorty" Shehan - The Soldier And The Lady (Laws P14) (3:10)
Shirley Griffith - Big Road Blues (2:56)
Pete Steele - Harlan County Farewell Tune (Rambling Hobo) (1:04)
Earl Murphy & Andy Carlson - Marmaduke's Hornpipe (2:49)
Bert Hare - Jonah (2:54)
Smokey McKinnis & Bob Black - Turkey In The Straw (2:32)
Clester Hounchell - Paddy On The Turnpike (1:37)
Anna Sandage Underhill - Play Party Songs: In This Ring / I'd Rather Be A Farmer's Boy (0:43)
The Chancey Brothers - Mulberry Gap / Cumberland Gap (3:35)
Louis Riendeau & Henry Riendeau - Fred Rogers' Reel (1:42)
Scrapper Blackwell - Goin' Where The Monon Crosses The Yellow Dog (4:47)


# rec. July 26, 1987 in Bronwood, GA by Art Rosenbaum & Allan W. MacLeod; Cecil Barfield, voc, g

4-CD set

Dust-to-Digital DTD-12 (US 2008)

102010Dixiefrog presents Black & White
Recorded in the Field by Art Rosenbaum

Henry Grady Terrel - Old John Henry Died On The Mountain
The Chancey Brothers - I Wish I Was A Mode In The Ground
Mose Parker - John Henry
Silver Light Gospel Singers - Don't You Let Nobody Turn You 'round
Gordon Tanner & Smokey Joe Miller - Devilish Mary
James "Yank" Rachell & Shirley Griffith - Mandolin Stomp [Flyright LP 523]
Lawrence Eller & Vaughn Eller - Down The Road
Golden River Grass - Going Down The Road Feeling Bad
Jake Staggers - Going Down The Road Feeling Bad
Brady Doc & Lucy Barnes - Free Go Lily
Ben Entrekin & Uncle John Patterson - Flat Foot Charlie

Cecil Barfield - Georgia Bottleneck Blues [Dust-to-Digital 08]
Lawrence McKiver & The Mcintosh County Shouters - Jubilee
Marie Lomax - Lord_daniel
The Eller Brothers & Ross Brown - Don't Go Riding Down That Old Texas Trail
Guitar Pete Franklin - Guitar Pete's Blues
Albert Hash & Art Rosenbaum - Train 45
Eddie Bowles - Bowles' Blues
George Childers - Nobody's Business
Scrapper Blackwell - Goin' Where The Monon Crosses The Yellow Dog
Fleeta & Rev. Nathaniel Mitchell - Brother, You Ought T've Been There
Tony Bryant - Broke Down Engine
Juanita & Oscar Shorty Shehan - Free Little Bird
The Balfa Brothers & Nathan Abshire - J'ai passé devant ta porte



Dixiefrog DFGCD8697 (Fr 2010)



Further information appreciated !!!

 

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 103
- Robert Ford & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1971 - 2000 [the later years].- Vancouver 2011, pp. 382-383
- http://dusttodigital.bandcamp.com/track/georgia-bottleneck-blues
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

thanks to George Mitchell, Pan Salmenhaara and Axel Küstner for additional info

 

Live footage
recorded December 27, 1988 by Art Rosenbaum
source: Georgia Folklore Collection, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia
@ dlgmedia1-www.galib.uga.edu/gfc/player/gfc-1956.html

 

C E C I L   B A R F I E L D and George Durham, Bronwood, Georgia, November 1993; source: Charlotte A. Lerg & Dorothea Schwarzhaupt-Scholz (ed.): Blues On The Road - Jazz and Images of the South.- München (Lasky Center for Transatlantic Studies) 2013, p. 27; photographer: Axel Küstner
Cecil Barfield and George Durham, Bronwood, Georgia, November 1993
source: Charlotte A. Lerg & Dorothea Schwarzhaupt-Scholz (ed.): Blues On The Road - Jazz and Images of the South.-
München (Lasky Center for Transatlantic Studies) 2013, p. 27; photographer: Axel Küstner

 

 

 

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