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2 unusual facts about Bessie Jones


Bessie Jones

Alan Lomax first encountered Bessie Jones on a southern trip in 1959.

Hobart Smith

Both Lomax and Asch continued to record Smith over the years, sometimes as a soloist, and sometimes performing duets with his sister or other singers such as Almeda Riddle and Bessie Jones.



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Tan-y-Bwlch railway station

Bessie Jones (played none too sympathetically by Louie Emery) even appeared in Michael Powell's 1935 thriller The Phantom Light, which opens with an extended scene at the Station featuring the film's heroine, played by Binnie Hale.