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DOWN IN TENNESSEE BLUES. Old-Time, Blues. USA. Banjo solo by Homer Davenport, who learned it from Bessy Smith. Davenport recorded the melody in 1925 in a recoding session in Richmond, Indiana, when he was recording with fiddler Jess Young (Young Brothers).

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Recorded sources: Gennett 3022, and SVT 4009 (78 RPM), Homer Davenport (1925).




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