Georgia-Carolina Singing Festival, Toccoa Falls, Georgia
John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip
After lunch we drove to Toccoa Falls, Georgia where a huge crowd had gather from three states, about twenty thousand. It was a hot day and the building of the main session was steaming, liverally. Loud speakers made the singing audible over several acres. It was a great social gathering, a veritable reunion. It was impossible to choose wisely. After listening for a long time on the outside, Mr. Lomax chose two quartets, one of women, one of men, for recordings. They were conducted to a building where the machine was set up. The records were made in the midst of much noise and confusion. The songs are not folk songs, but the records illustrate a manner- kind of religious song and a manner of singing them that are currently popular in some small town and rural districts. It is not the same as the Sacred Harp.

Ruby Lomax
June 11, 1939
 

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