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In 1935 Alan Lomax and Zora Neale Hurston took a trip to Hurston’s home town of Eatonville, Florida and recorded a handful of local blues singers for the Library Of Congress. My favorite of these recordings is a wonderful number by Rochelle French on guitar and vocals singing Po’ Boy. He’s an stellar guitar player and has a really strong blues voice. Someone should have thrown him a record deal.
Rochelle French – Po’ Boy, Long Ways From Home (1935)
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Quite right – this is terrific. Thanks!
Thanks! I’ve never heard this recording. I’ve added it to the list of versions at the Wikipedia page for Poor Boy Blues.
On the site “library of congress” there is a couple of photos of rochelle french and gabriel brown. On these pictures gabriel plays guitar and rochelle sings. I wonder if rochelle also played guitar? See ya!
rochelle plays lead guitar on this track, and gabriel plays backup. though on most of the recordings during the session it was the otherway around.
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