Big Chief Henry's Indian String Band was a Choctaw Indian string band from

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. The band was composed of members of the Hall family—Henry, father, on vocals and fiddle; and sons Clarence on guitar and Harold on banjo. They played from

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. H. C. Speir, a music promoter from Jackson, Mississippi, heard them playing at the Choctaw Indian Fair in

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. He got them a recording contract with RCA Victor, who recorded a number of songs in Dallas, October 14, 1929.

Discography

:Original recording date October 14, 1929, Dallas.Spottswod, ''Ethnic Music on Records'', p. 2928. :

References

Bibliography

*Sisson, Richard; Christian K. Zacher; Andrew Robert Lee Cayton (eds.). ''The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia''. Indiana University Press, 2007. *Spottswood, Richard K. ''Ethnic Music on Records: A Discography of Ethnic Recordings Produced in the United States, 1893-1942 & etc. (Vol. 5)''. University of Illinois Press. 1990. *Wardlow, Gayle Dean. ''Chasin' That Devil Music: Searching for the Blues''. Backbeat Books, 1998.

External links

Choctaw Indian Fair
mdash;Philadelphia, Mississippi. {{Authority control Choctaw culture Music of Oklahoma Culture of the Western United States