James "Iron Head" Baker and Moses "Clear Rock" Platt
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James "Iron Head" Baker and Moses "Clear Rock" Platt
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James "Iron Head" Baker and Moses "Clear Rock" Platt were African American traditional folk singers imprisoned in the Central State Prison Farm in Sugar Land, Texas. The men made a number of field recordings of convict work songs, field hollers and other material with John Lomax for the Library of Congress Archive of American Folk Music in the 1930s. After Lomax was refused entry to the Huntsville Penitentiary, in July 1933, the pair would become the first two convicts in Texas that Lomax was pe
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African American traditional folk singers
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2024-01-29T22:22:26Z
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