Afro-American spirituals, work songs, and ballads / edited with notes by Alan Lomax.

Format:

Sound recording

Series:

Music online: American song.

Music online: American song

Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Music.

African Americans.

Ballads, English--United States.

Ballads, English.

United States.

Folk songs, English--Southern States.

Folk songs, English.

Southern States.

Spirituals (Songs).

Work songs.

Genre:

Sound recordings.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Rounder Records, 1998.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Contents:

Trouble so hard (2:19) ; Choose your seat and set down (2:35) ; Handwriting on the wall (2:22) (Dock Reed ; Henry Reed ; Vera Hall)

The new buryin' ground (Willie Williams and group) (3:38)

Lead me to the rock (Wash Dennis ; Charlie Sims) (2:41)

The blood-stained banders (Jimmie Strothers) (1:20)

Run, old Jeremiah (Joe Washington Brown ; Austin Coleman) (4:29)

Ain't no more cane on this Brazos (Ernest Williams and group) (2:33)

Long hot summer days (Clyde Hill and group) ( 3:23)

Long John ("Lightning" and group) ( 5:23)

Jumpin' Judy (Kelly Pace and group) (5:06)

Rosie (Jeff Webb and group) (2:17)

I'm going to Leland (Frank Jordan and group) (1:51)

Jumping Judy (Allen Prothero) (2:51)

Look down that long, lonesome road (group) (1:19)

The grey goose (James (Iron Head) Baker and group) (3:18)

John Henry (Arthur Bell) (2:54).

Notes:

"Originally released in the series Folk Music of the United States, Recording Laboratory, Library of Congress, AFS L3, 1942."

Originally issued as compact disc.

Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2009. (American song). Available via World Wide Web.

Other Format:

CD 1510

Rounder CD 1510

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.