Columbia matrix W140490. Suicide blues / Alabama Joe ; Maggie Jones

TitleSource
Suicide blues (Primary title)Disc label (RDI)
Authors and ComposersNotes
Spencer Williams (composer)
Composer information source: Disc label.
PersonnelNotes Hide Additional Titles
Alabama Joe (instrumentalist : guitar)Pseudonym on Columbia 14070-D for Roy Smeck.
Maggie Jones (vocalist)
Roy Smeck (instrumentalist : guitar)
  • Description: Female vocal solo ("blues singer"), with guitar
  • Category: Vocal
  • Language: English
  • Master Size: 10-in.
Notes
Brooks/Rust notes that the accompaniment is by "J. E. 'Doc' Miller," as "Alabama Joe." Alabama Joe is listed on the Co 140070-D disc label. Roy Smeck often recorded as Alabama Joe and his biography (Roy Smeck: The wizard of the strings in his life, by Vincent Cortese) states that this recording, too, is by Smeck.
Source(s): Rigler-Deutsch Index.
Take Date and PlaceTakeStatusLabel Name/NumberFormatNote Hide Additional Titles
4/1/1925 New York, New York 1 Unknown
4/1/1925 New York, New York 2 Master Columbia 14070-D 10-in.
4/1/1925 New York, New York 3 Master Columbia 14070-D 10-in.

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Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Columbia matrix W140490. Suicide blues / Alabama Joe ; Maggie Jones," accessed November 21, 2024, https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000030255/W140490-Suicide_blues.

Columbia matrix W140490. Suicide blues / Alabama Joe ; Maggie Jones. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 21, 2024, from https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000030255/W140490-Suicide_blues.

"Columbia matrix W140490. Suicide blues / Alabama Joe ; Maggie Jones." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 21 November 2024.

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