Monday, January 16, 2012

Zora Neale Hurston Sings the Blues


During the Great Depression, the novelist Zora Neale Hurston traveled from Harlem to Florida to record folk songs for the Federal Writers Project’s Florida Folklife archive.
She left behind 18 amazing recordings, telling the story of individual folk songs and singing many of the tunes herself.

Hear the recordings, here, at Sad Men.

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