Some music defies time and trends. Blind Alfred Reed is responsible for at least a couple of songs that have long outlived the pre-country music era.

Mike Seeger said he was struck by Blind Alfred Reed's music the very first time he laid ears on it. That feeling about his music has never gone away. At the induction of the West Virginia Music Hall ...

CHARLESTON — It's 1927 and a man from southern West Virginia is writing songs about inequality, suffering of the poor, and the news of the day. His name is Blind Alfred Reed (1880-1956) and he was ...

Dark holler blues (Clarence Ashley) -- Henry Clay Beattie (Kelly Harrell) -- John Henry (Uncle Dave Macon) -- Sweet sunny south (Piedmont Log Rollers ; Red Patterson) -- Wreck of the Virginian (Blind ...