Primary Source Spotlight: Henry Creamer & Turner Layton
Song recordings
- After you’ve gone
- Childhood days
- Dear old Southland
- Everybody’s crazy ’bout the doggone blues, but I’m happy
- Goodbye Alexander, goodbye honey boy
- If you’ll come back
- I’m waiting for you, ‘Liza Jane
- I’ve got the finest man
- Jubilee blues
- Oh! Frenchy!
- Strut Miss Lizzie
- Sweet Emalina, my gal
- Sweet mamma (Papa’s getting mad)
- Sweet ‘n’ pretty
- That’s the doctor, Bill
- Way down yonder in New Orleans
- When the shadows softly come and go
- Whoa, Tillie, take your time!
- Why should I weep about one sweetie
Sheet music
- Come along
- Goodbye Alexander, goodbye honey boy notated
- Goodbye Alexander, goodbye honey boy published
- I got a letter from my Alexand
- I’ve got the finest man
- Maori
- Mother, darling!
Historical newspaper coverage
Blog posts & articles
- The Curious Case of Henry Creamer, or A Mammy, a Mule, and a Moon In The Muse February 18, 2020
- The Painful Birth of Jazz and the Blues Folklife Today February 24, 2017
- Love Songs at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century Folklife Today February 14, 2014
- African American Song