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Adele Vera Hall Ward

Published by Digital Alabama On July 12, 2015 Leave a response

Adele “Vera” Hall (1902-1964) is considered by many music fans to be the foremost singer of the blues and African American spirituals to come out of depression-era Alabama. Vera Hall, as she is popularly known, recorded a large body of work for ethnomusicologists (individuals who study music in a cultural… Read more »

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