#Jessie Fife

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While looking up faces for my characters, I used a number of randoes to actuals. New Profile Pic, the AI Art Generator has improved a lot of my story telling capabilities. Then they started to add features over the years… This is one of the best features they’ve added in a long time. Some of my favorite things in life are women, chicks, dames, broads, ladies, girls, females in general, imagination land, wings & fantasy. 🤙🏽

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Bridgerton: Toxic Masculinity, Loneliness & Disclosure

Bridgerton, S03E01, "Out of the Shadows"

Bridgerton, S03E04, "Old Friends"

I love these two scenes. There are the obvious and compelling parallels that point to the causal relationship between toxic masculinity and loneliness. And there are some other fun things going on too.

Eloise and Benedict's relationship is so wonderful to watch because of its apparent ease. As the second-born son and daughter personifying various shades of rebellion, they hold similar positions in the family. Eloise and Benedict understand each other.

On the other hand, Eloise and Colin's relationship is underrated in its inherent tension and their ability to clock each other and not let the other off the hook. Eloise and Colin see each other (even when they're trying to hide).

Which brings me to (the lack of) disclosure in each of these scenes:

When Colin tells Eloise, "A man cannot tell his secrets," he's trying to avoid revealing himself and his newly minted rake persona as fraudulent. This lack of disclosure is a betrayal of self, and Eloise can see right through it.

When he tells his friends, "A gentleman must keep some things to himself," he's trying to do the opposite. By not disclosing the information about his sexual encounters that they're salivating for, he's revealing himself to be the kind and sensitive person he's always been. He doesn't want to betray himself anymore.

In the second scene, he's striving for self-awareness and emotional intelligence. It's the bare minimum, but in Regency romance, this behaviour is exceptional (as in, the exception). More of this, please.

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Me in the back, middle w/ Mary Ann Jackson and "The Up All Night Blues Band". R.I.P. the late Martin "Big Boy" Grant.

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2nd March 1938 saw the arrest by MI5 of Jessie Jordan, the Dundee hairdresser who would later be convicted as a German spy.

Jessie Jordan was part of a ring of Nazi spies and agitators who worked to undermine the Allies before and during World War II.

War widow Jessie Jordan worked as a hairdresser to support her family before remarrying and trying to make it as a singer and actress. But she became infamous for a performance of a different kind.

Jessie, along with Tory toff Archibald Ramsay, was part of a ring of Nazi spies and agitators who worked to undermine the Allies before and during World War  Two.

Jessie Jordan’s double life as a spy was exposed after her landlord found a map of Scotland’s military barracks in her handbag, with the hair stylist in the pay of German intelligence organisation Abwehr arrested on March 2, 1938.

Jordan was sentenced to four years in jail after admitting to sharing secrets of Scotland’s coastal defences with the German intelligence services.

At her trial in New York, the court heard the Fife depot was of first-class national importance to the defence services with the sketch of ‘very great value to the pilot of enemy bombing plane seeking out his objective,’ a report of the court proceedings said.

She met her first husband, Frederick Jordan, from Hamburg, while he worked as a waiter in Dundee. After marrying in 1912, she moved to Germany.

She was hired by Abwehr just before returning to Scotland in 1937. On her appointment, she wrote: “I was now approaching the most dangerous and exciting period of my life. I was about to become a spy in the interests of Germany. I did not take this step because I bore Britain any ill-will or had become pro-German. Nothing could be further from the truth. I only did it to oblige friends in Germany and because I felt it would afford some excitement ...”

Jordan told immigration officials that she returned to Scotland to track down details of her birth father given she needed an Ahnenpass, a certificate based on church records that demonstrated her family line contained no Jewish heritage. It was all lies. 

At her trial, the extent of German intelligence gathering in the United States ahead of the outbreak of World War Two emerged. Jordan sold military information to Nazi German for two years and was the central figure in a major espionage ring stretching throughout Europe to New York and Washington.

Letters from operatives were received at the hairdressing salon in Dundee’s Kinloch Street, which she set up after returning to Scotland. Former salon owners Mary and John Curran became suspicious of her activities given Jordan was “unusually keen” to secure the shop, offering double the market value despite its downmarket address.

The Currans surreptitiously searched Jordan’s handbag: inside they found a map of Scotland on which the location of military barracks had been marked in pencil. They showed it to the police before slipping it back in place

At the Dundee salon, letters postmarked New York were discovered, some which contained requests for spy equipment,blank American passports and cash. All were to be routed via the Dundee hairdresser.

After her arrest, she was sent to Saughton Prison but transferred to Aberdeen at the outbreak of World War Two.

She was described as a “model prisoner” who busied herself with needlework. Released in 1941 she was interned again for the rest of the war before being deported. She died in Hamburg in 1954.

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The Slave Dancer (1974)

A review quote on the back of this book called it "horrifying," and that word is 110% accurate in describing my reading experience. I had to look up from time to time just to mentally process what I had just read.

The Slave Dancer is banned in virtually all school districts, and I certainly never saw it on any classroom shelf. It depicts in vivid detail the grotesque conditions of a boat heading to and from Africa to take a group of 98 slaves to America in the mid-1800s. The main character Jessie is kidnapped and forced to play his fife for the slaves each day to keep them active so their muscles don't atrophy over the course of the four-month journey. They're forced to do a kind of shuffle-dance in their chains, and if they don't move fast enough, they get whipped by a cat-o'-nine — a whip with nine knotted "tails." Both the crew and the slaves are subjected to the cat-o'-nine if they don't do what they're told (blah blah something about symbolism and how even the slavers are slaves to the industry...).

Jessie says, "I saw the others regarded the slaves as less than animals, although having a greater value in gold." The crew jam-packs the ship with so many slaves that there is nowhere for them to move. (I have memories of cramming into a crowded PRT car at WVU at the last minute, taking shallow breaths to avoid breathing in someone's body odor or too-strong perfume that's taken over the entire car — I'm imagining that discomfort tenfold.) There's so little space that many of the slaves afflicted with dysentery can't even make it to the latrine buckets fast enough because there are just too many people to get past.

Each day some of the crew tosses dead bodies overboard, with even some still alive if they're thought to be sick and spreading illness. Jessie notices a very young girl who makes a scene upon boarding the ship. She dies only a few days into the journey: "[Stout] held her upside down, his fingers gripping one thin brown ankle. Her eyes were open, staring at nothing. Foam had dried about her mouth. With one gesture, Stout flung her into the water." Jessie protests and is slapped by one of the crew in return.

There was one scene that I think will stick with me for a very long time. Ben Stout, one of the crewmembers in charge of the slaves (and whom Jessie feels is a truly evil man), drops Jessie's fife down into the slaves' hold and forces him to go retrieve it as a kind of sick punishment.

"I caught sight of a black face turned up toward the light. The man blinked his eyes, but there was no surprise written on his face. He had only looked up to see what was to befall him next. I went down the rope knowing my boots would strike living bodies. There was not an inch of space for then to move to. I sank down among them as though I had been dropped into the sea. I heard groans, the shifting of shackles, the damp sliding whisper of sweating arms and legs as the slaves tried desperately to curl themselves even tighter. ... To search the hold meant I would have to walk upon the blacks."

I can't even imagine the smell. For four months, day after day, week after week, with friends and family members who couldn't survive the trip simply being tossed overboard each morning... There's no way to comprehend the scale of that tragedy today, and nothing we experience in the U.S. could even come close.

At the end of the book, the crew sees a rival ship that could board and arrest them for being part of the slave trade, so the crew starts throwing the chained slaves overboard right and left to destroy the evidence. To top it off, a storm devastates the boat immediately after. Only Jessie and a single slave boy survive; every other slave and crewmember has either drowned or been killed. Jessie makes it home, but he lives with the memory of those months for the rest of his life. As a result, he can no longer tolerate hearing music of any kind.

This book reminded me a lot of the Studio Ghibli movie Grave of the Fireflies. It's a movie I think everyone should watch at some point in their life, but only once — no one would ever watch it a second time for fun. It's about two young siblings trying to survive alone in WW2-era Japan, and ultimately they both slowly starve to death. (Cinema Therapy's review of this movie examines it in depth if you're looking for a summary/don't want to submit yourself to the trauma of watching the whole thing.)

It's an important story that shouldn't be forgotten, but not for its entertainment value. My takeaway is that I think historical fiction has equal value to real history, in some cases, because it's able to humanize the past. Reading "many slaves did not survive the journey to America" in a textbook is just not the same as reading a description of a dead child being flung overboard by her ankle.

I don't know how this book fits into the larger conversation around banned books. This is a work I don't think someone under 13 should read, and even that's pushing it. I believe kids can handle a lot more than we give them credit for, but this was too much.

5/10 for the sheer devastation this brought, and I don't think I can give a Recommendable/Not Recommendable rating because it's in the same place as Grave of the Fireflies: the "this is important to preserve and talk about, but not fun in the slightest and will stay in your head in some capacity for the rest of your life" category.

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My Favorite Couples On TV:

#3. Barney Fife and Thelma Lou (sorry for it being blurry) 9/10

#2. Rob and Laura Petrie (Dick Van dyke and Mary Tyler Moore) 10/10

#1. Perry Mason and Della Street! Always. Forever. So cute. I loved this part in the show. For gosh’s sake, Della, kiss his other cheek! 1,000, 000, 000, 000+/ 10

 FAV ANIMATED COUPLES:

#1. Buzz and Jessie. The end. 10/10

#2. Fred and Daphne (I know someone made this, but I had to share it anyway) 10/10

#3. Bob and Helen Parr (Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl) 100/10

FAVORITE MOVIE COUPLES:

Nick and Nora Charles from the Thin Man Movies 100/10

Anne and Gilbert! 100/10

Chip and Hilde (far left, from On The Town) 10/10

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(via African-American Music from the Mississippi Hill Country: "They Say Drums was a-Calling" | Alicia Patterson Foundation)

[thechanelmuse]

Black American Music Month

• ELIZABETH “LIBBA” COTTEN - She was a maid at 9, wrote a hit song at 11 — and won a Grammy at 93. Not to mention she was a self-taught left-handed guitarist who played a guitar strung for a right-handed player, but played it upside down. This position meant that she would play the bass lines with her fingers and the melody with her thumb.

• SISTER ROSETTA THARPE- The “Godmother of Rock & Roll.” She helped shape modern popular music, was one of the few Black female guitarists to ever find commercial success and the first artist to blend gospel with the secular.

• ODETTA HOLMES - Known as “The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement.” In 1963, she sang for the masses on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at the March on Washington. Her musical repertoire consisted largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals.

• PEGGY JONES - Nicknamed “Lady Bo” played rhythm guitar in Bo Diddley's band in the late 1950s and early 1960s, becoming one of the first (perhaps the first) female rock guitarists in a highly visible rock band. Sometimes called the “Queen Mother of Guitar.”

• LIZZIE “MEMPHIS MINNIE” DOUGLAS - Known as the “Queen of the Blues,” was a singer, guitarist, and songwriter. Her title stems from her legacy of successfully recording music across four decades as well as being the lone female voice in a male dominated blues scene.

• NORMA JEAN WOFFORD - Nicknamed “The Duchess” by Bo Diddley, she was the second female guitarist in Diddley's backing band.

• ALGIA MAE HINTON - She was widely recognized as a master picker and buckdancer in the Piedmont styles. She would often play her guitar behind her head while buck dancing.

• ETTA BAKER - She was a Piedmont blues/folk guitarist and singer who began playing the guitar at age 3. Taught by her father, long-time Piedmont player Boone Reid, Etta played 6-string and 12-string acoustic guitar, and 5-string banjo. She was a master of the blues guitar style that became popular in the southern piedmont after the turn of the century.

• JESSIE MAE HEMPHILL - A legend of hill country blues guitar. She grew up in a lineage of familial fife-and-drums bands from northern Mississippi, rose to popularity in the mid-1980s and had a fruitful career during which she performed around the globe, traveling mostly on her own. She played in open tunings and, having started as a drummer, had a percussive guitar style that included slapping and banging the instrument. She would also tie a tambourine around her calf, which, together with her strumming-and-drumming guitar work, gave her performance the sound of a one-woman-band.

• BEVERLY “GUITAR” WATKINS - One part soul singer, one part rockin' roadhouse mama, and one part gifted songwriter. She's been chronically under-recorded for a woman with her résumé, performing with the likes of James Brown, Ray Charles and Otis Redding. She didn’t record her first album until she was 60. Her blistering licks on a 1962 red Fender Mustang earned her the well-deserved nickname “Guitar.” She gon’ put on a show:

One more for good measure:

• WILLIE MAE “BIG MAMA” THORNTON - Also referred to as “The Godmother of Rock & Roll.” She was a blues singer, songwriter, self-taught drummer, and harmonica player. She was the first to record "Hound Dog", in 1952, which became her biggest hit, staying seven weeks at number one on the Billboard R&B chart in 1953 and selling almost two million copies. She also helped to shape the sound and style of “Texas-blues,” an evolving blues sub-genre known to incorporate swing and big band elements.

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Rules: answer 17 questions and tag 17 people you’d like to know better

@thestoryoflight tagged me. Thank you, dear, it was fun getting to know you better ♡

Nickname: everyone calls me Jess, just like automatically, I never ask them to in person, I always introduce myself as Jessica.... Another Jessica started going to my school growing up so after a week of people yelling "Jessica!" Just to watch us both turn around people started calling me JJ.

Then...in no particular order. Jester. Messy Jessy. Monkey Butt (thank you grandma). Maradeth. And now The Ars Matron

Zodiac: Aquarius!

Height: 5′3.5″ but I just say 5'4" for things like my ID and the doctor cuz it's easier.

House: Slytherin! All the way. My next closest house was Ravenclaw.

Last thing I googled: Animal shelters near me, I want to donate some extra litter and blankets to them.

Song in my head: Nothing at the moment. Most often it's Just Dropped In by Kenny Rogers....why, you ask? The Big Lebowski

Followers and following: I don't actually know. I don't really care. I had a lot before the Purge and in a fit of disgust deleted my blogs. I came back mostly because I keep getting sick and wanted a place for my readers to find me if I went too long without posting anything on AO3

Amount of sleep: Not nearly enough

Lucky number: The numbers 2, 5, 7, 8, and 0 always follow me around. I see them more as guiding numbers than lucky numbers.

Dream job: hmmmmmm. I guess just getting paid to write would be awesome

Wearing: Black T-shirt from The Surly Wench, my favorite local pub. And flamingo lounge pants that are two sizes too big.

Fave songs: oh man... Pretty much anything Mark Lanegan. I'll just throw some links your way.

Carnival, Mark Lanegan

Hit the City, Mark Lanegan and PJ Harvey

Methamphetamine Blues, Mark Lanegan

Josephine, Mark Lanegan

Bananas, That 1 Guy (Hilarious and lovely, listen to it!)

Mustaches, That 1 Guy (Same as Bananas...really all of his songs are like this)

If want to see more of the insane jumble of music that I enjoy, HERE is a link to my personal playlist on youtube. Enjoy!

Instruments? Started playing the violin when I was 9 years old moved on to the viola at 12 (stopped playing 16 because my teacher was a sexist idiot) with the help of my friends I taught myself how to play the flute at 13 (our band teacher didn't know how to play the flute, so the whole flute section was just winging it... again, he was an idiot)… taught the band teacher how to play the fife when the school got a bunch donated when I was about 15. (It was the first time I'd ever seen a fife and I learned it on my own in an afternoon, but it was beyond the capacity of a man in his 50s who had taught band for 20 years to figure out)

Random fact: You mean besides having a deep dislike towards my old band teacher ?(≧▽≦)

I'm legally blind. I just feel like it's going to be something most people on the internet don't know about me. And the blind community is so often shoved under the bus I always want to make sure it's seen in some way shape or form. I was born with cataracts, and ocular albinism (and possibly retinas pigmentosa That one is hard to pinpoint but it runs in my family so I keep an eye on it) I went to the Arkansas school for the blind, lived on campus from age 9 to 16 until we moved closer to the school, which was one reason Harry Potter really caught my attention growing up. I've had two major eye surgeries, and one laser surgery (I’ll most likely need more as I get older and the cataracts keep growing back), and I really, probably, need to start using a cane....

Favorite Authors:  Robin Hobb is hands down my favorite. Please read Realm of the Elderlings and come yell at me about them!!

I also love. Philip K Dick, Chuck Palanuik, C S Friedman, Robert Jordan, Douglas Adams, and Maggie Stiefvater. I'm sure I'm missing a few. I'm gonna go ahead and put Hunter S Thompson in cuz I need to finish Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas but the little I've read so far is amazing.

Fave animal sounds: For some reason my cousin and I were curious about what peacocks sound like one night and looked it up and now the thought of peacocks warbling always makes me so happy cuz of how funny we found it when bored and hyper that one night.

Aesthetic: Oh man...Dark Academia, is one. Though I usually dress more grunge for someone who is slightly too young to have lived through the grunge era. Also I love bright colors. Rainbows, mishmash, eclectic everything. I'm all over the place, really. My goal is to start adding some 1940s vintage looks into my wardrobe.

Tag People: Okay I don’t know about tagging 17 people, but I’ll just start tagging whoever comes to mind. Prepare yourselves. And none of you are under any obligation to do this! In no particular order! @listeningboy @xupz @hermitknut @mahalsbutt @d2diamond @genuine-firefly @grompbutt @peonyfoxburr @inkaalhun @beescream @king-ghidorah (Because why no all the rote people I can think of) Okay...If you see this and want to do it and I didn’t tag you please do it and tag me and I’ll look! 

[gauntsghostsfieldguide]

His Last Command- Part 4

 @the-fluffy-underbelly

SIX

“By the grace of the God-Emperor, this hearing is closed.” Very sudden! And we hear no more testimony from any of the others. Whatever happened on Gereon between the books is barely explained. I wish we’d gotten more details, but on the other hand, the vagueness opens avenues for fic.

Van Voytz pulled a lot of strings, which he’s very vague about.

“A special honour or decoration may be approved eventually.” Maybe. Possibly. But don’t hold your breath.

“In the last twelve months, the Second Front has lost thirty-two per cent more to taint or suspected taint than during the previous phase. Whole units are deserting the field. Some are even changing sides.” Well, that’s deeply not good.

“The Tanith First was your last command.” Sort of title drop!

“ You can’t go back to commanding the Tanith First, because the Tanith First doesn’t exist anymore.” Oh shit! What happened to them?

SEVEN

“Crookshank Thrice-wrought was hunting. The urge to do so was knotting his omnivorous stomach and needling at the tiny, primitive lump of his brain. Quietly, he clambered his great bulk along a ridge of broken ruby quartz. The only sounds he made were the slight clicks of his thick claws against the quartz, the low wheeze of his phlegmy lungs.” Obviously some weird, creepy thing. And in the step cities. Perhaps they’re the problem?

There’s mines in a place once swept and found clean. Someone’s really sneaky.

Who the feth made Meryn captain?

“Flyn Meryn was as fond of giving orders now as he had been as a lowly squad leader. In Caffran’s opinion, Wilder hadn’t made many mistakes during the mix, but Meryn’s promotion was surely one.” Oh, yeah. Major mistake.

“ Vaguely humanoid, with stunted legs and vast arms and shoulders, the once-wrought weighed around four hundred kilos. The raw, pink flesh of his broad chest was smeared with blood, and tatters of meat dangled from his huge, underbiting snout. Patches of long, black hair trailed from a flat, almost indented scalp that still showed the healing scars of surgery, and hung down across tiny, pig-eyes that glinted behind an implanted iron visor.” Well, that’s gross.

Jessi Banda’s a good shot! And she’s dating Meryn. Another mistake. Seriously, why would she date him. He’s bargain basment Rawne, at best.

“ Braden Baskevyl, Wilder’s number two and a keen promoter of esprit de corps, had spent most of the last evening in camp encouraging a little improvisation between the regimental musicians. Belladon fifes and Tanith pipes. It sounded like a disenchanted cat being elaborately stabbed in a sack.” LOL.

“ He pitied the Tanith First for the body-blows it had taken on Herodor and afterwards, but sometimes he was secretly a little glad the other guy was dead. His job would have been so much harder if any hope had remained.” Do I have news for him.

[tellmeoflegends]

9 Favorite Albums

I was tagged by @thedarkmetallady

These are not in any form of order, it's just the way my brain went, "Oh! And this one! And this!"

1. Anggun "Snow On the Sahara"

2. Voltaire "Heart-Shaped Wound"

3. Loreena McKennitt "The Visit"

4. Enigma "Le Roi Est Mort, Vive le Roi!"

5. Lindsey Stirling "Shatter Me"

6. Gloryhammer "Tales From the Kingdom of Fife"

7. Jessie Cook "Nomad"

8. The Rasmus "Dead Letters"

9. Norah Jones "Come Away With Me"

Tagging: @tropicalcap @kingarthurscat @torhallatalaksdater @raelynae @tilltheendwilliwrite @whirlybirbs @australet789 @timmys-and-scribbles and anyone else who'd like to join in!

[ask-bendy-boy-universe]

A little Rp

Jessy: hello I am Jessy nice too meet chu!

Jamie: hello I am Jamie how are you hotstuff?

Bendy boy: golly it is nice too meet ya guys i hope we can be best pals!

Jess: heya

Alisha: howdy!

Pic one and Two: Jess

Pic three: Bendy boy(Jamie)

Pic four: Bendy boy (Bendy)

Pic fife: Alisha

[tinyshe]

   Alan Lomax and Lewis Jones' complete August 15, 1942 recordings of Sid Hemphill and his band, recorded at (or before) a picnic at the "Funky Fives" (also noted by Lomax as "Po' Whore's Kingdom"), outside of Sledge, Quitman County, Mississippi, made under the auspices of the Library of Congress' Archive of Folk Song and Fisk University. Playlist below. Multi-instrumentalist, band-leader and composer Sid Hemphill (1876-1961) was for decades the musical patriarch of the Mississippi Hill Country. He and his band — comprised of Alec "Turpentine" Askew, Will Head, and Lucius Smith; like Sid, all from Panola County, Miss. — were fixtures at dances, picnics, and frolics throughout the Delta and the Hill Country. Alan Lomax recorded Blind Sid in August 1942, near Sledge, Mississippi, where his band was appearing at a country picnic and banging out their breakdowns, marches, and square-dance tunes, as well as several blues ballads composed by Hemphill himself. By that date hundreds of commercial records had been made of the music of the Delta, and the preponderance of those were of or relating to the blues form, with guitar or piano accompaniment. Lomax's were the first made of the Hill Country's local music, and contributed to a broader perspective of black vernacular instrumentation, with their inclusion of the fiddle and banjo of the string band, the fife and drum ensemble, and the cane panpipes or "quills." Lomax recorded Sid and Lucius again in 1959.

Please visit http://bit.ly/1dB7cwe​ for the complete streaming audio of that session, and for more information about Alan Lomax's collections and the Alan Lomax Archive. (Lomax returned to North Mississippi once more in 1978, when he, Worth Long, and John Bishop filmed a session with Lucius and Sid's granddaughter Jessie Mae Hemphill. Search our channel for some of their performances.)

0:00​. Lomax introduction (AFS 6670 A1)

0:53​. The Eighth of January (6670A2) Hemphill, Sid (vocal and fiddle); Smith, Lucius (banjo); Askew, Alec (guitar)

3:43​. Interview with Sid Hemphill about his father, repertoire, instruments, and the Carrier Line. (6670A3)

7:51​. The Carrier Line (6670 B1) Hemphill (fiddle and vocal); Smith (banjo); Askew (guitar)

13:37​. The Roguish Man (part 1) (6670 B2) Hemphill (fiddle and vocal); Smith (banjo); Askew (guitar)

18:57​. The Roguish Man (part 2) (6670 A4) [sic] Hemphill (fiddle and vocal); Smith (banjo); Askew (guitar)

19:56​. Interview with Sid Hemphill about his composition "The Roguish Man" and Jack Castle. (6670 A5)

21:22​. Interview with Sid Hemphill about his composition "The Strayhorn Mob." (6671 A1)

22:30​. The Strayhorn Mob (6671 A2) Hemphill (fiddle and vocal); Smith (banjo); Askew (guitar); unidentified (kazoo)

27:25​. Boll Weevil (6671 A3) Hemphill (fiddle and vocal); Smith (banjo); Askew (guitar)

32:46​. Arkansas Traveler (6671 B1) Hemphill (fiddle and vocal); Smith (banjo); Askew (guitar)

38:27​. Tunings and demo (guitar, banjo, kazoo) (6671 B2)

40:08​. Come On, Boys, Let's Go to the Ball (6672 A1) Askew, Alec (vocal and quills); Lucius Smith or Will Head (bass drum)

41:55​. Come On, Boys, Let's Go to the Ball (6672 A2) Askew (vocal and quills) 

43:35​. Emmaline, Take Your Time (6672 A3) Hemphill (vocal and quills)

46:08​. The Devil's Dream (6672 A4) Hemphill (vocal and quills); Smith (bass or snare drum); Head (bass or snare drum)

49:20​. Leather Britches (6672 B1) Hemphill (fiddle and vocal); Smith (banjo); Askew (guitar)

50:30​. Rye Straw (6672 B2) Hemphill (fiddle and vocal); Smith (banjo); Askew (guitar); Head (bass drum) 

52:38​. So Soon I'll Be At Home (6672 B3) Hemphill (fiddle and vocal); Smith (banjo); Askew (guitar)

54:13​. Jesse James (6673 A1) Artists: Hemphill (fife); Smith (bass or snare drum); Head (bass or snare drum)

55:57​. After the Ball Is Over (6673 A2) Hemphill (fife); Smith (bass or snare drum); Head (bass or snare drum)

57:54​. The Sidewalks of New York (6673 A3) Hemphill (fife); Smith (bass or snare drum); Head (bass or snare drum)

1:00:00​. The Death March (6673 A4) Hemphill (fife); Smith (bass or snare drum); Head (bass or snare drum)

1:01:56​.   John Henry (6673 A5) Hemphill (fiddle and vocal); Smith (banjo); Askew (guitar)

1:05:26​. Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy (6673 B1) Hemphill (fiddle and vocal); Smith (banjo); Askew (guitar)

1:09:00​. Hog Hunt (6673 B2) Hemphill (fiddle and vocal); Smith (banjo); Askew (guitar)

1:13:38​. Soon In the Morning (6673 B3) Hemphill (fiddle and vocal); Smith (banjo)

Sid Hemphill and Lucious Smith.