Release Date: 15 December, 1998
Audio CD
Tracks
- Trouble So Hard - Vera Hall
- Choose Your Seat and Set Down - Vera Hall
- Handwriting on the Wall - Vera Hall
- New Burying Ground - Willie Williams
- Lead Me to the Rock - Charles Sims
- Blood-Stained Banders - Jimmie Strothers
- Run, Old Jeremiah - Austin Coleman
- Ain't No More Cane on This Brazos - Ernest Williams
- Long Hot Summer Days
- Long John
- Jumpin' Judy - Kelly Pace
- Rosie - Jeff Webb
- I'm Going to Leland - Frank Jordan
- Jumping Judy
- Look Down That Long, Lonesome Road
- Grey Goose - James Baker
- John Henry - Arthur Bell
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Rating 5.0
Living musicIn the 1930's, father and son John and Alan Lomax travelled through the South, collecting field recordings for the Library of Congress, in order to form a permanent record of the country's musical heritage. In 1942, six volumes of these and other recordings were released on thirty 78's. This collection is a remastering of the third volume of this series.The music is deep and vital; the sound quality - though as to be expected of "field recordings" cannot detract from the power of these spirituals, chants, laments, and worksongs, recorded by ordinary people - laborers, clergy, prisoners - in their ordinary settings. The record is essential listening for anyone interested in the history of Jazz, Blues, and Folk in America. |
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