Oshkosh Public Library

Voices from the American South, blues, ballads, hymns, reels, shouts, chanteys and work songs

eng

historical informationlibretto or text

folk music

not applicable

Voices from the American South

compact disc

37208422

Recorded at various locations by Alan Lomax, 1959-1960

blues, ballads, hymns, reels, shouts, chanteys and work songs

O day (Bessie Jones) -- Katy went fishing with her hook and line (Hobart Smith) -- Walk in the parlor (Sid Hemphill & Lucius Smith) -- Mama's gonna buy (Vera Ward Hall) -- Wished I was in heaven sitting down (Fred McDowell) -- Po' Lazarus (Bright Light Quartet) -- The lass of Loch Royale (Neil Morris) -- Three nights drunk (J.E. Mainer and band) -- Turkey in the straw (Charley Everidge & Neil Morris) -- Pharoah (Sidney Carter) --Interview (Uncle Charlie Higgins, Wade Ward & Dale Poe) ; Cripple Creek (Uncle Charlie Higgins, Wade Ward & Dale Poe) -- The diver boy (Ollie Gilbert) -- Pretty Polly (Estil C. Ball) -- Sweet Roseanne (Bright Light Quartet) -- Sink 'em low (Bessie Jones) -- Dollar Mamie (Ed Lewis, leader; with prisoners) -- I wonder will we meet again? (Rev. Crenshaw & congregation) --Poor wayfaring stranger (Almeda Riddle) -- Testimony (I.D. Beck) -- Guide me O thou great Jehovah (Ike Caudill, leader the Thornton Old Regular Baptist Church Congregation) -- The last words of Copernicus (Sacred Harp singers) -- The gospel train (Belleville A Capella Choir) -- Beulan land (John Davis & Bessie Jones) -- It just suits me (Hobart Smith & Bessie Jones)