American primitive. Vol. 2 : pre-war revenants (1897-1939).

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Blackwood, Dean.

Blackwood, Scott.

Komera, Edward.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gospel music.

Genre:

Sound recordings.

Gospel music.

Physical Description:

2 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (39 pages : illustrations ; 12 cm)

4 3/4 in.

Other Title:

Pre-war revenants (1897-1939)

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX : Revenant, [2005?]

System Details:

digital

optical

1.4 m/s

CCIR standard

Contents:

Disc 1. I want Jesus to talk with me (Homer Quincy Smith)

Deal rag (Walter Taylor)

Motherless child blues (Elvie Thomas)

Big bed bug = Bed bug blues (Tommy Settlers and his Blues Moaner)

I got your ice cold Nugrape (Nugrape Twins)

Molly man ((Red Hot) Old Mose)

Black dog blues (Bayless Rose)

Workhouse blues (Mattie May Thomas)

Bo-Lita (Kid Brown and His Blue Band)

My mama always talked to me (John Hammond)

Ballin' the Jack (The Salty Dog Four)

Friday Moan blues (Alfred Lewis)

Pick poor Robin clean (Geeshie Willie)

It's cold in China blues (The Mississippi Moaner)

Black sheep blues (Pigmeat Terry)

Old hen cackle (Two Poor Boys)

Frisco blues (Bayless Rose)

Hot Time blues (WIlliam Harris)

Take a look at that baby (Two Poor Boys)

Skinny leg blues (Geeshie WIllie)

Little Birdie (John Hammond)

Little Girl in Rome (Otto Virgial)

Dangerous blues (Mattie May Thomas)

Mean low blues (Blues Birdhead)

Be my kid blues (Elizabeth Johnson).

Disc 2. Last kind words blues (Geeshie Wiley)

Poor mourner (Cousins & DeMoss)

Jamestown exhibition (Bayless Rose)

There's a city built of mansions (Nugrape twins)

Cairo blues (Henry Spaulding)

Two white horses in a line (Two Poor Boys)

Shrimp man ((Red Hot) Old Mose)

Don't mistreat your good boyfriend (The Bubbling Over Five)

Bull frog blues (William Harris)

Purty Polly (John Hammond)

Go Down Moses (Homer Quincy Smith )

Over to my house (Wiley and Thomas)

Shaking weed blues (Tommy Settlers and His Blues Moaner)

Big Mac from Macamere (Mattie May Thomas)

Moaning the blues (Pigmeat Terry)

Original blues (Bayless Rose)

John Henry Blues (Take 3) (Two Poor Boys)

Sobbin' woman blues (Elizabeth Johnson)

Bad notion blues (Otto Virgial)

Eagles on a half (Geeshie Wiley)

Mississippi swamp Moan (Alfred Lewis)

Red Cross The Disciple of Christ today (Moses Mason)

Kansas City blues (WIlliam Harris)

As free a little bird as can be (John Hammond)

No mo' freedom (Mattie May Thomas).

Participant:

Gospel-blues music compiled by Dean Blackwood and Edward Komera.

Various performers.

Notes:

Title from booklet.

Recorded between 1897 and 1939.

Program notes by Scott Blackwood, and Dean Blackwood in accompanying booklet.

Compact disc.

OCLC:

62218783

Publisher Number:

630814021429

214 Revenant