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Black banjo songsters/
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--North Carolina--Music.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Virginia--Music.
- Banjo music.
- Folk music--North Carolina.
- Folk music.
- Folk music--Virginia.
- Folk songs, English--North Carolina.
- Folk songs, English.
- Folk songs, English--Virginia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (64 min.)
- Other Title:
- Title on original container: Black banjo songsters of North Carolina and Virginia
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Smithsonian/Folkways, p1998.
- Contents:
- Coo coo (John Snipes)
- Coo coo (Dink Roberts)
- Old rattler : fox chase (John Snipes)
- Georgie Buck (Dink Roberts)
- Georgia Buck (Joe Thompson & Odell Thompson)
- John Henry (James Roberts)
- High sheriff ; John Hardy ; Garfield ; Old corn liquor (Dink Roberts)
- Old corn liquor ; John Henry (Joe Thompson & Odell Thompson)
- Love somebody (Joe Thompson & Tommy Thompson)
- Long tail blue (John Snipes)
- Ain't gonna rain no more (John Snipes & Tommy Thompson)
- Going where I've never been before (John Snipes)
- Black Annie ; Old blue (Dink Roberts)
- Going away from home (Take care of my wife and child) ; You don't know my darling (John Snipes)
- Jaybird march (Etta Baker & Cora Phillips)
- Going up north (John Jackson)
- Sugar Hill (Homer Walker)
- Momma don't allow (Irvin Cook & Leonard Bowles)
- Shortnin' bread (Leonard Bowles)
- Shortnin' bread ("Big Sweet" Lewis Hairston)
- Fox chase (John Tyree)
- Roustabout (Dink Roberts)
- Cookin' in the kitchen (John Snipes)
- Coo coo bird (Rufus Kasey)
- Fox chase (Dink Roberts)
- Little brown jug (Joe Thompson, Odell Thompson & Tommy Thompson).
- Participant:
- Various banjo players, chiefly with vocal.
- Notes:
- Notes by Cece Conway and Scott Odell, texts, bibliography, discography, filmography, videography and credits on original container insert.
- Originally issued as compact disc.
- Produced and annotated by Cece Conway and Scott Odell.
- Smithsonian/Folkways: SF 40079 (on original container spine: SF CD 40079).
- Recorded between 1974 & 1997.
- Other Format:
- SF CD 40079
- SF 40079
- OCLC:
- 698169426
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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