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Alfred Reed
Peer International Corp.

ALBUM CREDITS:
Produced by Doug Cox

Recorded and Mixed by Bil VornDick
Assistant Engineering by Sam Ventura
Mountainside Audio Lab, Nashville, TN, November 2018
Mastered by Randy LeRoy, Tonal Park, LLC


MUSICIANS:
April Verch: Fiddle, Vocals, Foot Percussion
Al Perkins: Pedal Steel, Dobro, C6th Guitar
Ashby Frank: Harmony Vocals
Carmella Ramsey: Harmony Vocals
Jason Coleman: Piano
Joe Spivey: Fiddle
Kenny Sears: Fiddle
Lynn Williams: Drums
Mike Bub: Bass
Redd Volkaert: Guitars

ABOUT THE SONG:
This is one of four songs that Blind Alfred Reed of Floyd County, Virginia recorded at the Bristol Sessions in 1927. Blind Alfred played fiddle and sang his own songs, most of which were political or religious. He gave up recording two years after the Bristol Sessions and settled in West Virginia where he was a lay preacher in the Methodist church and continued to perform locally. In 1937 a statute was passed that prohibited blind street musicians. It is believed that Blind Alfred died in 1956 of starvation.
His thoughtful, poignant message from 1927 resonates strongly with me today. Thanks and acknowledgment to Ry Cooder for his lyrical modification to the third verse we chose.


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