The Lam = Meadows family, which had recorded two years previously, traveled from Stanardsville, Virginia, near Charlottesville, to Richmond for a 1929 session that captured some of Virginia's finest traditional musicians on equipment with the worst 60-cycle hum in the history of recording technology. Probably inaudible on Grandma's Victrola, it required some heavy filtering to produce what you hear here.
Bela Lam and his Greene County Singers. Alva Lam, lead vocal, guitar; Bela Lam, tenor vocal, banjo; Rosa Meadows Lam, alto vocal; John Paul Meadows, bass vocal.
Richmond VA 10/15/29 OKeh 45456
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