Old Jimmy Sutton Full Recordings
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Retired tobacco farmer and songster Spencer Moore performs Old Jimmy Sutton for Jon Lohman. Get the full story.
Archive for August, 2009
The Old Jimmy Sutton
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A masterful songster recorded by two folklorists, fifty years apart. When the late folklorist Alan Lomax set out on his now infamous “Southern Journey” in 1959, he stopped in Chilhowie, Virginia to record a tobacco farmer named Spencer Moore. Spencer was quite well known locally for his weekly appearances on the “Farm Fun Time” radio [...]