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49. The Rooster Crowed in England, 77 (UK) LP 12/1.
50. Mack McCormick, liner notes to The Rooster Crowed in England, 77 (UK) LP 12/1.
51. Ibid.
52. Phelan, August 23, 1959.
53. Country Blues, Tradition LP 1035 and Autobiography in Blues, Tradition LP 1040. Diane Guggenheim (a.k.a. Diane Hamilton) founded (and funded) the Tradition label, after signing the Clancy Brothers, the company began to earn profits. When the Clancy Brothers were signed by Columbia in 1961, the label ceased to be viable, and the catalogue was sold, possibly to Translantic, and then to Everest Records in the 1980s.
54. Robert Shelton, “An Earthy Shirt-Sleeve Type of Folk Art,” New York Times, January 30, 1960.
55. Mack McCormick, in Chris Strachwitz, “Lightnin’ Hopkins Discography, Pt. 2,” Jazz Monthly, no. 10 (December 1959), p. 14.
56. The Unexpurgated Folk Songs of Men, USFOM, a label created by McCormick and Strachwitz and released in December 1963, and later reissued by them on Raglan LP 51.
57. Mack McCormick, liner notes to The Unexpurgated Folk Songs of Men, Raglan LP 51.
58. “The Dirty Dozens,” from The Unexpurgated Folk Songs of Men, Raglan LP 51.
59. A Treasury of Field Recordings Vols. 1 and 2, 77 LA-12-3; Dobell’s Jazz Record Shop, 77 Charing Cross Road, London; and D.K. Wilgus, “Record Reviews,” Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 79, No. 314 (October–December, 1966), 632–633.
60. Lightning Hopkins, letter to Ed and Folkways Records, November 26, 1959, Moses and Frances Asch Collection, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Lightning Hopkins file.
61. Memo, February 10, 1960, Ibid.
62. Moses Asch, letter to Ed and Folkways Records, November 26, 1959, Ibid.
63. Lightning Hopkins, letter to Moses Asch, December 12, 1959, Ibid.
64. In an interview with Timothy O’Brien, McCormick claimed that he had in fact written to Folkways to produce a record with Hopkins, and the Sam Charters “showed up.” O’Brien, p. 70.
65. John A. Lomax, Jr. Sings American Folk Songs, Folkways LP 3508, 1956; Mack McCormick, letter to Ed Badeaux, Moses and Frances Asch Collection, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Lightning Hopkins file.
66. Sam Charters letter to Moses Asch, January 13, 1960, Ibid.
67. Ibid.
68. It was reissued in 1967 under the new title The Roots of Lightnin’ Hopkins and is still available as a CD today.
5. The Blues Revival Heats Up
1. Anthony Rotante, “Sam ‘Lightnin’ Hopkins: A Discography,” Discophile (UK) #45, December 1955.
2. Chris Strachwitz, “Lightnin Hopkins Discography—Pt. 1,” Jazz Journal 5, no. 9 (November 1959), pp. 25–26, and Chris Strachwitz, “Lightnin Hopkins Discography—Pt. 2,” Jazz Journal 5, no. 10 (December 1959), pp. 13–14.
3. Jeff Todd Titon, “Reconstructing the Blues: Reflections on the 1960s Blues Revival,” in Transforming Tradition: Folk Music Revivals Examined edited by Neil V. Rosenberg Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1993, p. 225.
4. Mack McCormick, interview by Andrew Brown, January 23, 2006.
5. Ibid.
6. Interview outtakes from The Blues According to Lightnin’ Hopkins, 1969.
7. John Lomax Jr., letter to B. J. Connors, June 3, 1960. Lomax papers, Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. Box 3D 318.
8. Mack McCormick, interview by Andrew Brown, January 23, 2006.
9. Chris Strachwitz, interview by Alan Govenar, May 20, 2009.
10. Alfred Frankenstein, “UC Folk Festival is Skillfully Shaped,” San Francisco Chronicle, July 4, 1960.
11. Lightnin’ Hopkins, interview by Barbara Dane on KPFK-FM, Los Angeles, CA, July 8, 1960.
12. Barbara Dane, interview by Alan Govenar, March 27, 2008.
13. Ibid.
14. Billboard, Vol. 79, No. 16, February 29, 1964, p. 7.
15. Ed Pearl, interview by Alan Govenar, July 17, 2008.
16. For more information, see Charles Wolfe and Kip Lornell, The Life and Legend of Leadbelly. New York: HarperCollins, 1992, p. 2.
17. John Lomax Jr., interview by Barbara Dane, July 8, 2008.
18. Pearl, July 17, 2008.
19. For more information, see Chris Smith, That’s the Stuff: The Recordings of Brownie McGhee,