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Joe Turner Blues

Tune Title
Joe Turner Blues
Artist
Red Williams
Key
A
Tuning
GDAE
Media Source
Old Time Fiddlers' Repertory University of Missouri LP (1976)
Played By
Red Williams
Notes

This version is unlike the "Joe Turner . Blues" published in 1948 by Clayton F. Summy Co., Chicago, which mentions that Joe Turner was a policeman whose job it was to take prisoners from the I Memphis jail to the penitentiary in Nashville. W. C. Handy, famous blues composer, wrote a song "Joe Turner Blues," copyrighted in 1915. Recorded by Red Williams

Collections Reference
The Old Time Fiddler's Repertory
Old Time Fiddling From The State Of Texas

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