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Ozella Jones

Ozella Jones is well known for only two monitors recorded by Alan Lomax and Zora Neale Hurston on the Condition Plantation in Raiford, FL, in 1936 within the Archive of American Folk Melody task. Her unaccompanied performing over the weary, wistful, and haunting “Prisoner Blues” (the melody is sometimes shown …

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