Blind Willie McTell
Pig' N Whistle Red
Biograph Records
more Piedmont style blues. Curley Weaver accompanies McTell on these 1950 Regal recordings. One of the few blues guys that continued to record during the depression.
Reverend Gary Davis
If I Had My Way
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
1953 recordings from the home of Davis, accompanied by his wife and another preacher, Kinny Peebles. Liner notes say they are his first recordings, made with a portable tape machine and hand held microphone.