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13. Sam Hopkins interview by Sam Charters, “My Family,” track from My Life in the Blues, Prestige LP 7370.
14. Clyde Langford, interview by Alan Govenar, March 21, 2008.
15. Ibid., February 7, 2008.
16. Ibid., February 6, 2008. For more information on the practice through which African Americans were sentenced to forced labor, see Douglas A. Blackmon, Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black People in America from the Civil to World War II (New York: Doubleday, 2008).
17. Sam Hopkins interview by Sam Charters, “My Family,” track from My Life in the Blues, Prestige LP 7370.
18. Ibid.
19. Lee Gabriel, April 1, 2000.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. Lorine Washington interview by Alan Govenar, March 14, 2008.
25. Interview outtakes from The Blues According to Lightnin’ Hopkins, 1969.
26. Paul Oliver, Conversation with the Blues (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), p. 44.
27. Paul Oliver, Vocal Traditions on Race Records (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), pp. 25–26.
28. Henry Thomas (Ragtime Texas), Vocalion 1230, Chicago, June 13, 1928. Reissued on Mack McCormick, “Henry Thomas,” album notes and transcriptions, Herwin 209.
29. Clyde Langford interview by Alan Govenar, February 7, 2008.
30. Interview outtakes from The Blues According to Lightnin’ Hopkins, 1969.
31. Sam Hopkins interview by Sam Charters, “My Family,” track from My Life in the Blues, Prestige LP 7370.
32. Sam Hopkins, interview by Sam Charters, “I Learn About the Blues,” track from My Life in the Blues, Prestige LP 7370.
33. Interview outtakes from The Blues According to Lightnin’ Hopkins, 1969.
34. Mack McCormick, “A Conversation with Lightnin’ Hopkins, Part 1,” Jazz Journal 13, no. 11 (November 1960), pp. 22–24.
35. Over the years, Mary Allen College expanded its curriculum, but the school ultimately ceased operation in the late 1970s.
36. Blind Lemon Jefferson’s two religious songs were “I Want to Be Like Jesus in My Heart” and “All I Want is That Pure Religion,” Paramount 12386.
37. Laura Lippman, “Blind Lemon sang the Blues: Wortham man recalls his memories of musician,” Waco Tribune-Herald, June 2, June 2, 1982, 11A.
38. Sam Hopkins, interview by Sam Charters, “I Growed Up with the Blues,” track from My Life in the Blues, Prestige LP 7370.
39. For more information on Blind Lemon Jefferson, see Alan B. Govenar and Jay F. Brakefield, Deep Ellum and Central Track: Where the Black and White Worlds Converged (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1998), pp. 61–85, and Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 20, No. 1, Spring 2000.
40. Interview outtakes from The Blues According to Lightnin’ Hopkins, 1969.
41. Ibid.
42. Ibid.
43. Mack McCormick, “A Conversation with Lightnin’ Hopkins, Part 2,” Jazz Journal 14, no. 1 (January 1961), p. 18.
44. Lightnin’ Hopkins, “Needed Time, RPM 359.
45. Lightnin’ Hopkins, “When the Saints Go Marching In,” Tradition LP 1040/77 “Jesus Won’t You Come by Here,” with Barbara Dane, Arhoolie LP 1022, “Jesus Won’t You Come by Here,” Vault LP 129, “I’ve Been ‘Buked (and Scorned)” AoF LP 241 (Davon LP 2015), “Prayin’ Ground Blues,” Sittin’ In With 599, “Devil is Watching You,” Vee-Jay LP 1044, “Sinner’s Prayer,” Bluesville LP 1061; (45) 822, “I’m Gonna Build Me a Heaven of My Own,” Prestige LP 7377. Lightnin’ also sang one verse of “Oh Mary, Don’t You Weep,” a song that was no doubt suggested by Pete Seeger on Folkways LP 2455.
46. Interview outtakes from The Blues According to Lightnin’ Hopkins, 1969.
47. Ibid.
48. Ray Dawkins, interview by Alan Govenar, March 14, 2008.
49. The Leon County Historical Book Survey Committee, History of Leon County, Texas (Dallas, Texas: Curtis Media Corporation, 1986).
50. Mabel Milton, interview by Alan Govenar, March 14, 2008.
51. Interview outtakes from The Blues According to Lightnin’ Hopkins, 1969.
52. Paul Oliver, Conversation with the Blues (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), p. 57.
53. Mack McCormick, Jazz Journal 13, no.11 (November 1960), p. 23.
54. Sam