This is a very interesting body of material. A lot of it is social commentary, such as the piece "Why Do You Bob Your Hair, Girls?" where Blind Alfred Reed expresses his anger at women cutting their hair short, as was the new style in the 1920s. Blind Alfred Reed was from Floyd.
Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order (1927-1929)
1. The Wreck of the Virginian
2. I Mean to Live For Jesus
3. You Must Unload
4. Walking in the Way of Jesus
5. Explosion in the Fairmount Mines
6. Fate of Chris Lively and Wife
7. Why Do You Bob Your Hair, Girls
8. Always Lift Him Up and Never Knock Him Down
9. The Prayer of the Drunkard's Little Girl
10. The Telephone Girl (ft. Arville Reed on vcl/gtr)
11. Woman's Been After Man Ever Since
12. Why Don't You Bob Your Hair, Girls – No. 2
13. There'll Be No Distinction There
14. We've Got to Have 'Em, That's All
15. Beware
16. The Old-Fashioned Cottage
17. How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live
18. Black and Blue Blues
19. You'll Miss Me
20. Money Cravin' Fools
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