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Index For purposes of alphabetizing, nicknames are generally treated as part of the name. ABC record label, 152 Abner, Ewart, 248 Abrams, Jerry, 344 Ace record label, 175, 178 Acuff, Roy, 82, 85, 86, 114, 120 Adams, Woodrow, 261, 311 Adelphi record label, 315 Advent record label, 317 Afro-American Folk Music from Tate and Panola Counties, Mississippi, 314 Akers, Garfield, 73, 91 Aladdin record label, 32 Albert, Irving, 135 Albert Wynn’s Gutbucket Five, 125 Albold, Volker, 322 “Alcohol and Jake,” 104 Alexander, Texas, 327, 328 Alex Club, 157 Allen, Dick, 22 Allen, Hoss, 86 Allen, Pecan, 100 Alligator record label, 164, 212 Allison, Luther, 79, 80, 158, 165, 221 Allman, Diane, 164 Altshuler, Bob, 234, 235 Ambrose, 3 American Federation of Musicians, 16, 285 American Folk Blues Festival, 162, 180, 184, 186, 336 American Forces Network (AFN), 271 American Guild of Variety Artists, 285 American Music record label, 149 American Skiffle Bands, 24 Ammons, Albert, 180 Ampex tape recorder, 237, 326, 342 Amsterdam News, 29 Anderson, Eric, 69, 84 Anderson, Marion, 190, 198 Anderson, Pink, 38 Angola Prisoner Blues (LP), 343 Ann Arbor Blues Festival, 80, 217 Anthology of the Blues, The (French CD set), 251 Apollo Theater, 291 ARC (American Record Company), 113, 124, 129 Archibald, 176 Archive of American Folk Song, 235, 236 Archive of Folk Culture, 236 Arhoolie Records, 8, 76, 317, 333, 342, 344 Armstrong, Lil Hardin, 278 Armstrong, Louis, 27, 28, 67, 86, 136, 159, 227, 230, 243, 273, 324 Armstrong Twins (Floyd and Lloyd), 324 Arnold, Billy Boy, 42, 154, 168, 196, 218 Arnold, Eddie, 82 Arnold, James “Kokomo,” 2, 245, 249, 250, 251 Artistic record label, 210 ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), 318 Asch, Moses, 24, 27, 28, 30, 33, 34, 35, 36, 56, 257 Asch, Sholem, 36 Ashby, Harold, 159 Ashcraft’s Law Firm, 152 Ash Grove Lounge, 160, 304 Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), 240 Atkins, Ace, 120 Atlantic record label, 148, 167, 236, 256, 258 Atomic Mama’s Wang Dang Doodle Blues Show (radio program), 216 348 index Audiophile record label, 154 Austin, Lovie, 50 Avalon Productions, 72 “Avalon’s Blues,” 72, 128, 229 “Ay-Tete-Fee,” 336 “Backdoor Friend,” 185 “Background of the Blues, The,” 7 Baez, Joan, 38, 69, 72, 228 Balfour, Robert, 322 “Ball and Chain,” 342 Bankhead, Tommy, 32 Bankston, Dink, 312 Barbecue Bob (Robert Hicks), 5, 258 Barbee, John Henry, 162, 163 Barber, Chris, 17, 121, 182, 283 Barlow, Bruce, 80 Barnes, “Booba,” 221, 222 Barnes, George, 141 Baron, Bob, 215 “Barrelhouse Dance,” 125 Barretta, Scott, 225 Barrie and Rockliffe, 13 Barth, Bill, 115, 262 Bartholomew, Dave, 176 Basic Linguistic Theory, 133 Basie, William “Count,” 243, 325 Bass, Ralph, 221 Bastin, Bruce, 175, 236, 316, 317 Bates, Deacon L. J., 127 Bayou Boys, 239 BBC (British Broadcast Company), 8, 9, 13, 15, 20, 271, 275, 331 B. B. Junior, 156 B. B. King Treasures, 82 Bea & Baby record label, 219 Beale Street Jug Band, 321 Beatles, 268, 278 Beatty, Warren, 232 Bechet, Sidney, 17, 276 Beehive Lounge, 154 Beggars Banquet, 232 “Begin a New Life on Christmas Day” (Parts One and Two), 125 Beiderbecke, Bix, 227 Belafonte, Harry, 193 Bell, Carey, 221 Bell, Lurrie, 221 Bell record label, 126 Benton, Buster, 160 Benwell, Trevor, 121, 123 Berkeley Folk Festival, 328 Berlin, Irving, 244 Berry, Chuck, 40, 167, 297, 325 “Between Midnight and Day,” 83 Beverley Cavern, 325 Bigard, Barney, 324 Big Bama, 23 “Big Boss Man,” 86 “Big Fat Mama,” 103 Big Maceo, 179, 196, 245, 249, 278 Big Mama’s Blues Show (radio program), 216 “Big Road Blues,” 91, 103, 105, 107, 317 Big Road Blues (book), 301, 304 Billboard magazine, 145, 173 Bill Boyd’s Cowboy Ramblers, 154 “Bird’s Nest Bound,” 91, 102 Birmingham Jubilee Singers, 127 Birmingham Quartet, 127 Bishop, Dickie, 278, 279, 284 Black, Stu, 156, 159 Black Ace, 19, 329, 331, 332, 333 Black and White Lounge, 185 Blackbirds of Paradise, 88 Black Chicago, 184 Black Lion record label, 342 Black Magic, 158 Black Metropolis, 184 Black Patti record label, 58, 59 “Blacksnake Dream Blues,” 127 “Blacksnake Moan,” 110 Blackstone Rangers (street gang), 42, 209 Blacks, Whites, and the Blues, 182 Blake, Blind (Arthur Phelps), 61, 67, 258, 279 Bland, Bobby, 189 Blind Log, 316 Blind Pig (piano club), 251 Block, Rory, 73 Bloomfield, Mike, 159, 188, 196, 197, 200, 201, 204, 208 “Blueberry Hill,” 167 Bluebird record label, 42, 117, 120, 124, 125, 141, 148, 245 Blue Flame (blues club), 39, 41, 42...

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