Harry Smith talking to Scotch folk-singer English Professor at University of Mississippi who drove me to visit Ike's Barber Shop in Clarksdale-- Ike had played in Black rhythm & Blues bands around the 40's Country & his shop was legendary social center after he'd returned to his home town-- Harry came to record the rhythm of his barber scissors & razor strapping as we spent the afternoon hanging out & listening to the jukebox by the bar, back of the Barbershop. Later we drove across the Mississippi River & returned to "ole' Miss" at Oxford by midnight, April 19, 1987., 1987

Inscription

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Harry Smith talking to Scotch folk-singer English Professor at University of Mississippi who drove me / to visit Ike's Barber Shop in Clarksdale-- Ike had played in Black rhythm & Blues bands around the 40's / Country & his shop was legendary social center after he'd returned to his home town-- Harry came / to record the rhythm of his barber scissors & razor strapping as we spent the afternoon hanging / out & listening to the jukebox by the bar, back of the Barbershop. Later we drove across the mis- / sissippi River & returned to "ole' Miss" at Oxford by midnight, April 19, 1987.; on verso, by unknown hand, center in graphite on applied label inverted: 70 1/2 / pg 38; lower center in graphite: 759/24762 / &24763; lower right in graphite: 4/18/87 / Negs 25 & 26 / Clarksdale Miss; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-290; bottom right in graphite: GDC-738

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary and Ellen Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2013.

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