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Ozella Jones

Ozella Jones has been played on NTS in shows including 75 Years of Folkways Records, featured first on 22 October 2023. Songs played include I Been A Bad, Bad Girl.

Ozella Jones is known for only two tracks recorded by Alan Lomax and Zora Neale Hurston at the State Farm in Raiford, FL, in 1936 as part of the Archive of American Folk Song project. Her unaccompanied singing on the weary, wistful, and haunting "Prisoner Blues" (the song is sometimes listed as "I Been a Bad, Bad Girl," since it is a loosely adapted version of Barefoot Bill's "Bad Boy," released on Columbia Records in…

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I Been A Bad, Bad Girl
Ozella Jones
Rounder Select2003
I Been A Bad, Bad Girl
Ozella JonesRounder Select2003
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