cottonfields

Born on August 22, 1936 in Goldmine, Louisiana, Hawkins became hooked on the gospel sounds of the local black church and the bare bones country-blues that could be heard in the cottonfields surrounding the family home.

Archive 2010-02-14 Bill Crider 2010

Some couldn't keep their eyes off the cottonfields across the road where the rows of plants were overshadowed by a billboard.

To Make Way for the Future 2009

Some couldn't keep their eyes off the cottonfields across the road where the rows of plants were overshadowed by a billboard.

To Make Way for the Future 2009

Working in the cottonfields I heard migrant pickers singing the blacks would be singing in one field, the Mexicans singing nearby, us local hands singing our own stuff.

Willie Nelson, Willie & Shrake, Edwin Bud 1992

Though I have total respect and admiration for people who labor with their hands farmers like my folks, blacksmiths like my grandfather, mechanics like my dad Ira, hod carriers, carpenters, and other physical jobs that fill me with awe my desire to escape from manual labor started in the cottonfields of my childhood and cannot be overstated.

Willie Nelson, Willie & Shrake, Edwin Bud 1992

A scant mile of cottonfields lay between the two plantations, and, Christmas over, Uncle Noah had but to trudge across the fields to deliver himself to the Major's guest.

Uncle Noah's Christmas Inspiration Leona Dalrymple

The Northern feeder and the European feeder have been using this by-product of the cottonfields with great advantage, while the loss of its fertilizing qualities to the South has been very great.

Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Daniel Wallace [Editor] Culp

For generations the black man, as a crude laborer, raised "King Cotton" in the cottonfields of the South.

Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Daniel Wallace [Editor] Culp

Two days after the Big Storm, they set out for the Texas cottonfields.

Across the Fruited Plain Florence Crannell Means 1935

In the twilight of one April evening when a soft gray had drifted down along the cottonfields and over the sultry town, he was a vague figure leaning against

Tales of the Jazz Age 1922