Shake sugaree / Elizabeth Cotton.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Cotten, Elizabeth.

Contributor:

Seeger, Mike, 1933-2009.

Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk music--United States.

Folk music.

United States.

African Americans--Music.

African Americans.

Spirituals (Songs).

Folk songs, English--United States.

Folk songs, English.

Genre:

Sound recordings.

Folk music.

Music.

Physical Description:

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

4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Folkways Records, [2004]

System Details:

digital

optical

1.4 m/s

digital recording

Contents:

Shake sugaree (5:03)

Take me back to Baltimore (1:59)

Washington blues (3:38)

I'm going away (3:25)

Fox chase (3:42)

Ontario blues (3:45)

Fare you well, my darling (2:03)

Untitled/Georgie Buck (3:01)

Mama, nobody's here but the baby (:53)

Mama, nobody's here but the baby (1:37)

Look and live, my brother (1:52)

Jesus lifted me (2:09)

Jesus is tenderly calling (1:39)

Buck dance (1:52)

Ruben (2:14)

Oh, Miss Lulie gal (1:31) - Can't get a letter from down the road (1:45)

Shoot that buffalo (1:40)

Boatman dance (1:48)

Hallelujah, it is done (1:34)

Holy Ghost, unchain my name (1:25)

Little brown jug (2:23)

Delia (2:12)

Ball the jack (2:35)

Till we meet again (2:04)

When the train comes along (2:45).

Participant:

Elizabeth Cotton, guitar, banjo, and vocals.

Notes:

Recorded Feb. 1965 at Alexander Hall, Princeton, New Jersey, and Jan. 1966 at the Roosevelt, New Jersey elementary school.

Most selections previously released; the 2nd, 7th-9th, 17th, 20th-23rd and 26th released for the first time.

"Recorded, edited, and produced by Mike Seeger"--Container.

Compact disc.

Program notes by John Ullman and Mike Seeger (27 p. : ill.) inserted in container.

OCLC:

56506996

Publisher Number:

093074014721

SFW CD 40147 Smithsonian Folkways Records