stephen: he was talking about buddy bolden, it is an amazing collection.t is probably the first extended oral history of an individual that was ever done on audio recording. it is the first one related to music. it is an interesting collection. another great collection was a collaboration with fisk university in 1941 in 1942. they recorded some great musicians in minutes -- in mississippi. these include the first recordings of mckinley morgan field, who was known as money water. mistake inx's writing down his nickname that led to him being called muddy waters. he said muddy waters is just as good. ♪ this is muddy waters on guitar and singing. ♪ stephen: alan was accompanied by a fisk university faculty member who was one of the most important african american of traditional music. they were working together to collect the traditions in mississippi. another great recording star they found was honey boy edwards. allen took silent film of ham as well as recording him. -- weovered that that discovered that is who this was on a reference real of film that someo