Music and Agriculture in the Piedmont Region

Intro

Interview: I was lucky when I was young

Flora Molton and the Truth Band – Get Right With God (Living Country Blues USA, Vol. 3, recorded at her home in 1980 for L+R Records)

Chief Ellis and the Barrelhouse Rockers – Louise Blues (Classic Appalachian Blues, Smithsonian Folkways, 1976)

Interview: Archie Edwards setup

Archie Edwards – Baby Please Me a Break (Living Country Blues USA, Vol. 6, recorded in 1980 for L+R Records)

Interview: L+R Records

Bowling Green John Cephas – Richmond Blues (Living Country Blues, Vol. 1, L+R Records, 1981)

Bowling Green John Cephas & Harmonica Phil Wiggins – Pony Blues (Living Country Blues, Vol. 1, L+R Records, 1981)

Interview: Lay out a fat rhythm

Bowling Green John Cephas & Harmonica Phil Wiggins – I Saw the Light (Dog Days of August, Flying Fish, 1986)

Bowling Green John Cephas & Harmonica Phil Wiggins – Reno Factory (Dog Days of August, Flying Fish, 1986)

Interview: If you could dance to it

Cephas & Wiggins – A Shanty in Old Shanty Town (Bluesmen, Chesky, 1993)

Cephas & Wiggins – Piedmont Rag (Sweet Bitter Blues, L+R Records, 1984)

Interview: John Cephas the farmer and elephant dung

Cephas & Wiggins – Highway 301 (Sweet Bitter Blues, L+R Records, 1984)

Cephas and Wiggins – Bye Bye Baby, Take 1 (Sweet Bitter Blues, L+R Records, 1984)

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