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Interview with and music performance by blues guitarist Sammy Lee Williams
Subject
Fieldwork
African Americans
Blues (Music)
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Guitar music
Guitarists
String instruments
Interviews
Oral histories
Life histories
Singers
Guitarist
Blues singers
Description
One reel to reel recording. Poor recording. Williams discusses moving to Florida, playing with Muddy Waters and Slim Hopper, performing for white audiences, and performs with his electric guitar and harmonica. These are field recordings from the Florida Record Project. That project, along with work for the North Florida Project, resulted in the two-album recording, Drop On Down in Florida.