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Sterling Brown


Image credit: The Sterling A. Brown Papers of the Williams College Archives & Special Collections

  • Break of Day (1:50): MP3
  • Sharecroppers (1:49): MP3
  • Slim in Hell (2:54): MP3
  • Old Lem (2:06): MP3
  • Old King Cotton (1:15): MP3
  • Puttin' on Dog (2:12): MP3
  • Ma Rainey (3:05): MP3

  • related: Ma Rainey, "Bad Luck Blues (Break of Day)" c. 1923 (3:07): MP3

Cloteel, Old Lem, Break of Day, Transfer, Remembering Nat Turner, Ballad of Joe Meek, Strong Men (22:43): MP3

Long Track Blues, Sporting Beasley, Sam Smiley, After Winter, Conjured, Children's Children, Putting on Dog, Unclie Joe, Parish Doctor (21:36): MP3


© 2011 the estate of Sterling Brown. These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. Distributed by PennSound.