Join us for part two of our look at the blues traditions in Brownsville, Tennessee. This time, we’ll focus primarily on the Decca label, and hear some of the mid-1930s recordings made by Sleepy John Estes, Hammie Nixon, Son Bonds, Charlie Pickett, and Lee Brown. Plus, during a special segment, we’ll also take a brief detour over to Vocalion and the American Record Corporation, so that we can hear a handful of sides, also recorded in the mid-1930s, by another small contingency of Brownsville blues musicians — including Yank Rachell, Allen Shaw, and John Henry Barbee. We’re going to Brownsville, on this episode of Blues Unlimited.

Pictured: Brownsville mandolin man, James "Yank" Rachell (in his later years).

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