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Identifier	T811R03
FRID (Lomax Number)	12929
Title	Interview with Vera Hall about the songs she sings when alone
Creator	Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002
Contributors	Hall, Vera, d. 1964 Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002
Lomax Classification	interview spoken
Subject	Hall, Vera, d. 1964 Music -- Performance
Broader Subject	Blues (Music) Blues musicians
Date	May 1948
Format	streaming mp3
Play Time	24 seconds
Type	Sound
Location	New York (N.Y.) Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) Alan Lomax's Apartment (3rd. Street, New York, N.Y.)
Recording Note	Alan Lomax asks Vera Hall what she sings and moans when she is alone.
Session Note	In these interviews and songs, recorded by Alan Lomax at his home in New York City, Vera Hall talks about her life and sings samples of songs. Lomax is joined by his wife Elizabeth, their daughter, and an unidentified couple, who can be heard throughout the session. -- Editor's Note
Collection Note	These recordings of oral history, play songs, blues, spirituals, and stories were made in 1948 when Alan Lomax invited Vera Hall to come from her home in Livingston, Alabama, to New York City for a concert. Vera Hall's mother had been a slave, and Vera's date of birth was not recorded. Her artistry and repertoire were brought to John A. Lomax's attention by Ruby Pickens Tartt, a painter and folklorist from Livingston who introduced Vera and her cousin, Dock Reed, to him in 1937. The elder Lomax recorded her again in 1940, describing her as having "the loveliest voice I had ever recorded." Alan Lomax used the oral histories of Vera Hall and Dock Reed as the basis of The Rainbow Sign (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1959), a study of African-American spirituality. After her death in 1964, Alan Lomax said:"It is from singers like Vera Hall that all of us who love folk music in America have everything to learn. Her performances were all graced with dignity and with love. Her sense of timing and beat were perfection itself." But all this is analysis. The mystery of Vera Hall and her art, while hinted at in the recordings we will always treasure, lies buried in the state where once the stars fell." For a summary of Vera Hall's life see Gabriel Greenberg's article, reproduced at www.alan-lomax.com. In 2005 Vera Hall was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame.
Session Title	Vera Hall I 1948
Collection Title	Vera Hall 1948
Rights Holder	Association for Cultural Equity
Access Rights	Media files in this collection are owned by the Association for Cultural Equity and made available solely for personal use. Copy or capture of media files is prohibited. While the metadata is available without restriction, streaming media is only available on J.D. Williams Library computers, University of Mississippi.
Language	English

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