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    Biography

    This West Virginia singer/songwriter and fiddler was one of Ralph Peer's discoveries on the legendary 1927 Bristol field trip that unearthed both the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers. Reed was one of those uniquely Southern contradictions, both reactionary and progressive in his songs. "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?" echoed the sentiments of the rural poor (who tasted none of the ...more
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  • Money Cravin' Folks
  • How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?
  • We've Got to Have 'Em, That's All
  • The Prayer of the Drunkard's Little Girl
  • Why Do You Bob Your Hair, Girls
  • Explosion in the Fairmount Mines
  • The Wreck of the Virginian
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