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Josh White

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Aliases
Josh White and His Guitar
Joshua White
Joshua White and His Carolinians
Joshua White - The Singing Christian
Pinewood Tom
Real name
Joshua Daniel White
Born
February 11, 1915
Died
September 5, 1969
Country
United States
IPI
00032828195 1 work
00059475442 1 work
Affiliation
ASCAP
Comments
Influential blues/folk singer and guitarist. In the 1940s, White was perhaps the closest African American friend of President Franklin Roosevelt. In the 1950s, White's activism for civil and human rights made him a target of the House Un-American Activities Committee in front of which he testified, denouncing Communism. Although a "friendly" witness, White's testimony led to his blacklisting.

On his 1930s recordings his blues (not gospel) recording were credited to his Pinewood Tom alias as that was the "devil's music".
Member of
The Union Boys (1944)
The Almanac Singers (on some recordings)
Family
Judy White Daughter
Josh White Jr. Son
Bill White Brother
Related
Sam Gary [US1] Collaborator
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Covers by Josh White

Title Performer Release date Originally by
1946 Bessie Smith
(Josh White, Clarence Williams [US1]) 1935 Joe Pullum
August 1956 Fiddlin' John Carson
1962 Papa Charlie Jackson, Picaninny Jug Band, Tommy McClennan
1940 (unknown)
August 1956 Dykes' Magic City Trio
(Josh White) 1935 Honey Dripper
1955 Nassau String Band
January 1946 Dwight "Gatemouth" Moore
May 1957 Peggy Lee with Dave Barbour and His Orchestra
1934 Deacon Leon Davis and His Congregation
1946 (unknown)
1962 Bessie Smith
1944 Libby Holman with Josh White
May 1957 Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra
  1946 The Leighton Brothers REC, Paul Biese Trio REL
1957 (unknown), Pál Kalmár, Hal Kemp and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus Bob Allen
1956 John Jacob Niles and Marion Kerby
1942 Leadbelly
May 1957 Leadbelly
1947 (unknown)
1962 (unknown)
October 1944 Ashley and Foster
1942 Ashley and Foster
1956 Ida Cox, Leroy Carr
October 1944 (unknown)
April 1935 Biddle University Quartet
1956 Sextet with Dinah Washington
1946 Earl Hines and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Billy Eckstein
listen on Internet Archive September 1933 Blind Willie Johnson
October 1944 Fiddlin' John Carson
1945 Harrod's Jubilee Singers
1956 Jim Jackson
November 1952 Gene Austin
1947 (unknown)
1934 Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell
1957 Rev. C.D. Montgomery, Dave Cutrell with McGinty's Oklahoma Cow Boy Band
(Josh White, Clarence Williams [US1]) 1935 Kokomo Arnold
1940 Kokomo Arnold
  1946 Peggy Johnson and Her Orchestra REC, Douglas Byng PRF
1947 (unknown)
September 1933 Blind Willie Johnson
  1946 Jimmie Cox PRF, Blind Bobby Baker and His Guitar REC,REL
  1957 Lena Horne with Orchestra conducted by Horace Henderson REC,REL, Fred Astaire BRD
1944 Casey Bill
April 1935 (unknown)
December 1933 Deacon L. J. Bates (Blind Lemon Jefferson)
February 1956 Norfolk Jazz Quartette
1955 (unknown)
February 1956 (unknown)
(Josh White) 1935 Kokomo Arnold
listen on Internet Archive 1945 (unknown), (unknown), Louis Armstrong & His Savoy Ballroom Five
1956 Prince's Band
October 1944 Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra
1944 Earl Robinson
1944 (unknown)
Covered by Evelyn Knight and the Herman Chittison Trio
1932 Mississippi Sheiks, "Sam Hill" From Louisville
May 1957 Thelma La Vizzo
1944 John Collinson
(Josh White) December 1935 Leroy Carr
1942 Leroy Carr
May 1957 Buddy Johnson and His Band

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