BEFORE THE MUSIC DIED: LaVilla – ”The Great Black Way”
by 
Tim Gilmore
Tim Gilmore
“West Ashley Street,” sang the in 1927, was the only place you could “ever lose these awful Jacksonville Blues.” That same year, recorded a mysterious ragtime blues guitarist named playing “Ashley Street Blues,” with singing, “I’m a heartbroken woman with the Ashley Street Blues.” recorded another version of “Jacksonville Blues” in 1928. She was “red hot” in Atlanta, she sang,
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