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The Grey Goose

Lead Belly · 1948 · Récit chanté de The Grey Goose

Context

This piece appears on the first volume of the Last Sessions, whose recording preserves Lead Belly's spoken introductions. Recorded in 1948 at Frederic Ramsey Jr.'s home in New York and released in 1953 by Folkways.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Blues, spirituals, work songs, Afro-diasporic roots.

By the same artist

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