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Blues Duet From Roanoke To Fairfax At Farm Craft Days
Dan Womack and John Jackson, both black blues singers from Virginia, performed at Belle Grove Plantation during Farm Craft Days in Frederick County. The piece traces their roots to Leadbelly, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Mississippi John Hurt and others, recounting Womack’s blindness and Jackson’s rural upbringing, and notes their role in preserving the endangered Negro folk blues tradition.
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John Jackson
Belle Grove
Middletown
Dan Womack
Roanoke
Fairfax
Frederick County
Belle Grove Plantation
Leadbelly
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Mississippi
John Hurt
John Lee Hooker
Deep South
Womack
Jackson
Texas
Chicago
Huddie Ledbetter
John Lee Coker
Detroit
Marshall Stearns
Sonny Terry
Brownie McGhee
Terry
North Carolina
McGhee
Pittsylvania County