Brown County blues; Red wing

Summary

This article represents the individual Library of Congress catalog item Brown County blues; Red wing, identified as afc1939007_afs02291b. The catalog dates the sound recording to 1938-08-27 and assigns it the call number AFC 1939/007: AFS 02291 B. It is an item-level record: semicolon-separated titles in the catalog are preserved as the item’s title and are not silently split into separate song entities.

Catalog metadata

• Library of Congress identifier: afc1939007_afs02291b
• Call number: AFC 1939/007: AFS 02291 B
• Catalog date: 1938-08-27
• Catalog contributor labels: Unidentified (Performer); Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002 (Collector)
• Original format: sound recording

The held JSON is the authority for this item’s catalog metadata and online identifier. Contributor labels are retained as catalog evidence; this article does not turn them into separate biographical claims or assert that every title has been independently identified by listening.

Provenance and limits

The item belongs to the Beaver Island subset of the Alan Lomax Collection of Michigan and Wisconsin Recordings (AFC 1939/007). The aggregate collection article at Alan Lomax Beaver Island field recordings (1938) describes the full 71-item sound-recording population and its relationship to the 108 catalog-card photographs. This record preserves the LOC catalog layer; song texts, musical analysis, performance attribution beyond the catalog labels, and rights interpretation remain open research tasks.

See also

• Alan Lomax Beaver Island field recordings (1938)
• Music and folklore
• Saint James