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April 30, 2014

Discovery of Peabody Hotel Field Recordings

 

MEMPHIS, Tn.—Some evocative field recordings were done in the South’s finest hotel.

A couple months ago “Peabody Blues” was released on the new Nehi Records label out of London, England. The Delta blues and string band  recordings were made Sept. 22-25, 1929 in a guest room at the Peabody Hotel in downtown Memphis for the  Brunswick/Vocalion label.

Artists include Furry Lewis, Mississippi bluesman Charlie McCoy and Robert Wilkins, whose “That’s No Way To Get Along” was poached by the Rolling Stones for their “Prodigal Son” on the 1968 “Beggar’s Banquet” LP.

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