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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 15:58:28 -0700
From: Tom Ball
Subject: Re: prewar texas harp players

I wrote:
>Other than William McCoy, only other one I can think of is Freeman
>Stowers, who is thought to have been from Texas, but who recorded in
>Indiana....
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Pat responded:
Well, I know Paul Oliver has suggested that he may have been Texan, but
I don't think that there is any real evidence for it, other than the fact
that some of the material he recorded was popular in the Texas local
traditions.
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Hi Pat,
True enough. For what it's worth (and it really isn't much) Don Kent's
liner notes to "Harmonica Masters" (Yazoo 2019) mentions, "Freeman Stowers
was probably from Texas; one of the songs on "Medley of Blues" is the Texas
standard 'All Out And Down.'" Granted, flimsy evidence at best...

He did once record a piece called "Texas Wild Cat Chase" for Gennett, as
well as an unreleased one called "Texas Wild Cat Hunt." I've never actually
heard either of these, but according to Godrich & Dixon (1969 edition)
these two pieces have no harp at all, but are simply "animal imitations
without harmonica." Hmmm... leave it to Gennett; they really had their
fingers firmly on the pulse of the American Record Buying Public, eh?

cheers and all best wishes,
Tom