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Sounds of the South, a musical journey from the Georgia Sea Islands to the Mississippi delta, recorded in the field by Alan Lomax

eng

folk music

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Sounds of the South

compact disc

28743659

recorded in the field by Alan Lomax

a musical journey from the Georgia Sea Islands to the Mississippi delta

1. Blue Ridge Mountain music. The banks of the Arkansas (Neil Morris) -- Wave the ocean (Neil Morris, Charley Everidge) -- Hen duck (Lonnie Young, Ed Young, Lonnie Young, Jr.) -- The farmer's curst wife (Estil C. Ball) -- Boll Weevil Holler (Vera Hall) -- Jesse James (Mountain Ramblers, instrumental) -- Jesse James (Neil Morris, told and sung) -- Kenny Wagner (Bob Carpenter) -- Trouble so hard (Vera Hall) -- Baptizing scene -- Is there anybody here that love my Jesus (Viola James & congregation) -- Windham (Alabama Sacred Harp Singers) -- Keep your lamps trimmed and burning (Mississippi Fred McDowell) -- Come on, boys, let's go to the ball (Sid Hemphill, Lucius Smith) -- Join the band (John Davis & group) -- Lucky Holler (Ed Lewis) -- I be so glad when the sun goes down (Ed Lewis & group) -- Cotton eyed Joe (Mountain Ramblers, Cullen Galyen) -- Big Tilda (Mountain Ramblers) -- Jennie Jenkins (Estil C. Ball, Orna Ball)1. Blue Ridge Mountain music (cont.). John Henry (Mountain Ramblers, Cullen Galyen) -- Rosewood casket (Mountain Ramblers, Eldridge Montgomery) -- Silly Bill (Mountain Ramblers) -- Big ball in Boston (Mountain Ramblers, Thurman Pugh) -- Chilly winds (Wade Ward, banjo) -- The old hickory cane (Mountain Ramblers, Thurman Pugh) -- John Brown (Hobart Smith, fiddle) -- Poor Ellen Smith (Hobart Smith, vocal & banjo) -- Shady Grove (Mountain Ramblers, Thurman Pugh)2. Roots of the blues/The blues roll on. Jim and John (Lonnie Young, Ed Young, Lonnie Young, Jr.) -- The wild ox moan (Vera Hall) -- Been drinkin' water out of a hollow log (Mississippi Fred McDowell) -- All night long (Miles Pratcher, Bob Pratcher) -- Shake 'em on down (Mississippi Fred McDowell, Miles Pratcher, Fannie Davis) -- Levee camp reminiscence (Forrest City Joe (Joe B. Pugh)) -- Chevrolet (Lonnie Young, Ed Young, Lonnie Young, Jr.) -- Levee camp holler (Johnny Lee Moore) -- Eighteen hammers (Johnny Lee Moore & 12 Mississippi Penitentiary convicts) -- Drink on little girl (Forrest City Joe, Sonny Boy Rogers, Thomas Morgan) -- Drop down mama (Mississippi Fred McDowell) -- Boogie children (Boy Blue (Roland Hayes), Willie Jones, Joe Lee) -- She lived her life too fast (Forrest City Joe, Sonny Boy Rogers, Thomas Martin) -- Sittin' on top of the world (Lonnie Young, Ed Young, Lonnie Young, Jr.) -- Cool water blues (John Dudley)2. Roots of the blues/The blues roll on (cont.). She don't love me that way ; Stop breaking down (Forrest City Joe, Sonny Boy Rogers, Thomas Martin) -- Joe Lee's rock (Boy Blue, Willie Jones, Joe Lee) -- Bullyin' well (Rosalie Hill) -- When you get home, write me a few little lines (Mississippi Fred McDowell) -- Red Cross store (Forrest City Joe) -- Forrest City jump (Forrest City Joe, Sonny Boy Rogers, Thomas Martin)3. Negro church music/White spirituals. Death, have mercy (Vera Hall) -- I want Jesus to walk with me (James Shorty, Mississippi Fred McDowell) -- Jesus is real to me (Mrs. Mary Lee & congregation) -- I love the Lord (Rev. R.C. Crenshaw & congregation) -- A sermon fragment (Rev. G.I. Townsel) -- I'm goin' home on the mornin' train (Rev. R.C. Crenshaw & congregation) -- Power (Madam Mattie Wigley & congregation) -- On that rock (Viola James, Lonnie Young, Ed Young) -- Jesus on the main line (James Shorty, Viola James & congregation) -- I'm gonna sail like a ship on the ocean (Henry Morrison & St. Simon's Island Singers) -- Blow Gabriel (John Davis, Bessie Jones, St. Simon's Island Singers) -- What do you think about Jesus (He's all right) (Bernice McClellan & congregation) -- Tribulations (Estil C. Ball, Lacey Richardson, Blair Reedy) -- When I get home (Estil C. Ball, Blair Reedy) -- The poor wayfaring stranger (Estil C. Ball)3. Negro church music/White spirituals (cont.). Baptizing down by the creek (Mountain Ramblers) -- Sermon and lining hymn (Rev. I.D. Back & congregation) -- Antioch ; Calvary (Alabama Sacred Harp Singers) -- Please let me stay a little longer (Estil C. Ball, Lacey Richardson) -- Father, Jesus loves you (Estil C. Ball) -- Lonesome valley (Estil C. Ball, Lacey Richardson, Orna Ball, Blair Reedy) -- Father adieu (Estil C. Ball) -- The old country church (Mountain Ramblers, Thurman Pugh) -- The cabin on the hill (Estil C. Ball, Lacey Richardson, Orna Ball, Blair Reedy)4. American folk songs for children & more. Johnson's old gray mule (Mainer Band, instrumental) -- My little rooster (Almeda Riddle) -- Who a mule (Mainer Band, instrumental) -- Frog went a-courtin' (Almeda Riddle) -- Glenn's chimes (Mainer Band, instrumental) -- Chick-a-li-lee-lo (Almeda Riddle) -- Old Joe Clark (Mountain Ramblers, instrumental) -- Go tell Aunt Nancy (Almeda Riddle) -- Train III (Mainer Band, instrumental) -- Johnny Cuckoo (Bessie Jones & group) -- Mama buy me a chiney doll (Almeda Riddle) -- Soldier, soldier (Hobart Smith) -- Mary Mack (Jessie Pratcher, Mattie Gardner, Mary Gardner) -- Hambone (Bessie Jones) -- Banging breakdown (Hobart Smith) -- Green Sally, up (Jessie Pratcher, Mattie Gardner, Mary Gardner) -- Sometimes (Bessie Jones & group) -- The Arkansas traveler (Hobart Smith) -- Paper of pins (Estil C. Ball, Orna Ball) -- The little dappled cow (Texas Gladden) -- Go to sleep little baby (Bessie Jones)4. American folk songs for children & more (cont.). Paddy on the turnpike (Wade Ward, Charley Higgins, Charley Poe) -- Jimmy Sutton (Spence Moore, Roy Birns) -- Liza Jane (Mountain Ramblers, instrumental) -- Oree (Lonnie Young, Ed Young, Lonnie Young, Jr.) -- Train time (Forrest City Joe) -- Freight train blues (Mississippi Fred McDowell) -- This little light of mine (James Shorty, Viola James & congregation) -- Motherless children (Felix Dukes, Mississippi Fred McDowell) -- Little Moses (Neil Morris)