Boll Weevil Here, Boll Weevil Everywhere - Document Records Vintage Blues and Jazz

More remarkable recordings collected by John A Lomax and others for the Library of Congress including an appearance by Vera Hall who featured on Mobyâ€™s top selling album â€œPlayâ€. The majority of these informal recordings of blues, ballads and cajun music were made on plantations and prisons of the deep south in a time gone by when river boats, cotton pickers and dusty roads were still parts of everyday life. A plantation post office is used as one recording venue because it was one of the few buildings in the area with electricity. They reveal a fascinating slice of Afro-American social and musical history.
These recordings have previously been unreleased and appear here for the first time in over seventy years. They are unavailable elsewhere. The boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis) is a beetle measuring an average length of six millimeters (Â¼ inch), which feeds on cotton buds and flowers. Thought to be native to Central America, it migrated into the US from Mexico in the late 19th century and had infested all US cotton-growing areas by the 1920s, devastating the industry. During the late 20th century it became a serious pest in South America as well. Since 1978, the Boll Weevil Eradication Program in the US has allowed full-scale cultivation to resume in many regions. To read more about the Boll Weavil visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boll_Weevil

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