Voices from the American South.

Format:

Sound recording

Series:

Alan Lomax collection

Southern journey ; v. 1.

Southern journey ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blues (Music).

Folk songs--Southern States.

Folk songs.

Work songs.

Genre:

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Other Title:

Subtitle on notes: Blues, ballads, hymns, reels, shouts, chanteys and work songs

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Rounder Records, [1997]

System Details:

digital

optical

1.4 m/s

digital recording

Contents:

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)

Pharaoh (Sidney Carter)

Interview / 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)

Beulah land (John Davis & Bessie Jones)

It just suits me (Hobart Smith & Bessie Jones)

Participant:

Various artists.

Notes:

Compact disc.

Remastered from the original field recordings.

Recorded at various locations by Alan Lomax, 1959-1960.

Includes booklet ([32] p.) with lyrics and notes by Matthew Barton.

OCLC:

37208422

Publisher Number:

CD 1701 Rounder Records

CD1701 Rounder Records

1701 Rounder Records