Tear It Down Rag

Tear It Down Rag 1:06

(David Edwards, published by Earwig Music Company) BMI

David Honeyboy Edwards - vocal and guitar

Honeyboy's father Henry Edwards played songs like this around the house. Honeyboy also probably heard older bluesmen like Big Joe Williams, Charley Patton and Willie Brown play some ragtime.

Recorded at a Rosenwald School on the outskirts of Clarksdale, MS July 20 and July 22, 1942 by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress Archive of Folk Songs