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Texas Alexander Frost Texas Tornado Blues 1934

This music was composed by Texas to commemorate the Frost, Texas Tornado which killed 60 people and leveled the little farming community on the afternoon of May 6, 1930. Others were sucked up into the cloud and never found. A mass funeral was held on the porch of the only house left standing in the town. Many caskets were simultaneously lowered as Rock of Ages could be heard from a lone trumpeter. Most in attendance at the funeral were themselves battered and injured.
Texas Alexander is accompanied by the Mississippi Sheiks-Lonnie Chatmon, Sam Chatmon on guitar, and Armenter Chatmon aka Bo Carter on violin. Okeh 8890; San Antonio, Texas; April 9, 1934.

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