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The Complete Friends of Old Time Music concert / Georgia Sea Island Singers.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center CD 34988
Available
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Language:
- Creoles and Pidgins, English-based (Other)
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Georgia--Saint Simons Island--Music.
- African Americans.
- Folk songs, English--Georgia--Saint Simons Island.
- Folk songs, English.
- Spirituals (Songs)--Georgia--Saint Simons Island.
- Spirituals (Songs).
- Work songs.
- Blues (Music)--1961-1970.
- Blues (Music).
- Genre:
- Negro spirituals.
- Spirituals (Songs)
- Folk songs.
- Blues (Music)
- Work songs.
- Live sound recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 audio disc (71 min., 25 sec.) : CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, [2024]
- Language Note:
- Sung in English and in the Gullah language (Sea Islands Creole dialect)
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- 1.4 m/s
- audio file
- CD audio
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction by Alan Lomax - Travelin' shoes (2:29)
- Dances and children's play songs. 2. Handclapping and cane fife (3:07) ; 3. Buzzard lope (dance) - In that old field (2:12) ; 4. Josephine (1:14)
- Work songs. 5. Goodbye my Riley O (2:41) ; 6. Go row the boat child (1:39) ; 7. Join the band (1:26) ; 8. Sink 'em low (2:29)
- Country blues. 9 . Going down to the river (3:30) ; 10. Shake 'em on down (3:04)
- Bible-inspired songs. 11. Once there was no sun (2:40) ; 12. Adam in the garden (1:26) ; 13. Who built the ark (1:38) ; 14. Let my children go (3:19) ; 15. My God is a rock 94:14) ; 16. I heard the angels singing (3:11) ; 17. Read 'em John (1:37) ; 18. Keep your lamp trimmed and burning (3:32) ; 19. Sign of the judgment (2:45)
- Country blues. 20. Chevrolet (4:22) ; 21. Write me a few of your lines (3:29) ; 22. Don't ever leave me (3:56)
- Bringing it home. 23. Marching on the Mississippi line (3:12) ; 24. Down to the mire (3:18) ; 25. Before this time another year (4:56)
- Participant:
- Bessie Jones, John David & the Georgia Sea Island Singers ; with Mississippi Fred McDowell and Ed Young
- Notes:
- Title from disc label
- Analog recording
- Songs, blues and spirituals from the African American Gullah Geechee community, St. Simons Island, Georgia
- Recorded by Peter K. Siegel at a concert presented by the Friends of Old Time Music and the Newport Folk Foundation April 9, 1965 New School, New York City
- Biographial and historical notes in English by Eric S. Crawford, Nathan Salsburg and Peter K. Siegel (47 pages : portraits) inserted in container.
- Bessie Jones, John Davis, and the Georgia Sea Island Singers gained wide renown during the 1960s and '70s for their powerful performances of traditional songs from the African American Gullah Geechee community on St. Simons Island, Georgia. Most in the group were born and raised on St. Simons, and could trace their ancestry to the enslaved West and Central Africans who worked on the island's cotton plantations. Throughout the '60s, the Georgia Sea Island Singers were prominent voices in the civil rights movement, bringing hundreds of years of Black musical tradition to bear on a pivotal time in American history. This previously unheard recording captures their complete Friends of Old Time Music concert of April 1965, at which they were joined by legendary bluesman Mississippi Fred McDowell, cane fife player Ed Young, and folklorist Alan Lomax, who acted as emcee. The album showcases a variety of traditional music from the Island and beyond, including stirring work songs, emotionally charged spirituals, jubilant songs for children, and revelatory renditions of Mississippi blues.
- OCLC:
- 1437910490
- Publisher Number:
- 093074025826
- 40258 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
- SFW CD 40258 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
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