Originally published on Thu February 7, 2013 8:29 am
Sometime in the mid-1960s — no one's really sure when — Lena Hughes walked into a recording studio, probably in Arkansas. What we do know is that she recorded 11 tunes on the guitar.
"It's kind of like listening to 1880," folklorist Howard Marshall says. "You kind of get a wonderful, ancient vibration."
Marshall wrote a book about traditional music in Missouri, called Play Me Something Quick and Devilish.
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