| Description |
4 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 pages) laid in container |
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United States https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095330 |
| Physical Medium |
4 3/4 in. |
| Description |
digital |
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optical |
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1.4 m/s |
| Note |
Atlantic: 82496-2 (on containers: 7 82496-2). |
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In container. |
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"Contains 105 musical performances recorded in the field throughout the rural South by Alan Lomax." |
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Title from set container. |
| Performer |
Various performers. |
| Event |
Recorded in the summer of 1959. |
| Note |
Originally released in 1961 as a 7-LP set titled: Southern folk heritage series. |
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Compact discs. |
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Accompanying booklet includes photographs and track-by-track comments by Alan Lomax and an essay by Robert Palmer. |
| Contents |
Disc 1. Sounds of the South ; Blue Ridge Mountain music -- Disc 2. Roots of the blues ; The Blues roll on -- Disc 3. Negro church music ; White spirituals -- Disc 4. American folk songs for children. |
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Disc 1. Sounds of the South ; Blue Ridge Mountain music: The Banks Of The Arkansas ; Wave The Ocean (Neil Morris, Charley Everidge) -- Hen Duck (Lonnie Young, Ed Young, Lonnie Young Jr.) -- The Farmer's Curst Wife (Estil C. Ball) -- Boll Weevil Holler (Vera Hall) -- Jesse James (Mountain Ramblers) -- Jesse James (Vera Hill) -- Kenny Wagner (Bob Carpenter) -- Trouble So Hard (Vera Hall) -- Baptizing Scene (Reverend W.A. Donaldson) -- Is There Anybody Here That Love My Jesus (Viola James & Congregation) -- Windham -- (Alabama Sacred Harp Singers) -- Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning (Mississippi Fred McDowell) -- Come on Boys, Let's Go to the Ball (Sid Hemphill, Lucas Smith) -- Join the Band (John Davis & Group) -- Lucky Holler (Ed Lewis) -- I Be So Blad When the Sun Goes Down (Ed Lewis & Group) -- Cotton Eyed Joe (Mountain Ramblers) -- Big Tilda (Mountain Ramblers) -- Jennie Jenkins (Estil C. Ball, Orna Ball) -- John Henry (Mountain Ramblers) -- Rosewood Casket (Mountain Ramblers) -- Silly Bill (Mountain Ramblers) -- Big Ball in Boston (Mountain Ramblers) -- Chilly Winds (Wade Ward) -- The Old Hickory Cane (Mountain Ramblers) -- John Brown (Hobart Smith) -- Poor Ellen Smith (Hobart Smith) -- Shady Grove (Mountain Ramblers) -- Disc 2. Roots of the blues ; The Blues roll on: Jim and John (Lonnie Young, Ed Young, Lonnie Young Jr.) -- The Wild Ox Moan (Vera Hall) -- Been Drinkin' Water Out of a Hollow Log (Mississippi Fred McDowell) -- All Night Long (Miles Pratcher, Bob Pratcher) -- Shake 'Em on Down (Mississippi Fred McDowell, Miles Pratcher, Annie Davis) -- Levee Camp Reminiscence (Forrest City Joe) -- Chevrolet (Lonnie Young, Ed Young, Lonnie Young Jr.) -- Levee Camp Holler (Johnny Lee Moore) -- Eighteen Hammers (Johnny Lee Moore, 12 Mississippi Penitentary Convicts) -- Drink on Little Girl (Forrest City Joe/Sonny Rogers/Thomas Morgan -- Drop Down Mama -- Mississippi Fred McDowell -- Boogie Children -- Boy Blue/Willie Jones/Joe Lee -- She Lived Her Life Too Fast (Forrest City Joe, Sonny Boy Rogers, Thomas Martin) -- Sittin' on Top of the World (Lonnie Young, Ed Young, Lonnie Young Jr.) -- Cool Water Blues (John Dudley) -- She Don't Love Me That Way (Forrest City Joe, Sonny Boy Rogers, Thomas Martin) -- Stop Breaking Down (Forrest City Joe, Sonny Boy Rogers, Thomas Martin) -- Joe Lee's Rock (Boy Blue, Willie Jones, Joe Lee) -- Bullyin' Well (Rosalie Hill) -- When You Get Home, Write Me a Few Lines (Mississippi Fred McDowell) -- Red Cross Store (Forrest City Joe) -- Forrest City Jump (Forrest City Joe, Sonny Boy Rogers, Thomas Martin) -- Disc 3. Negro church music ; White spirituals: Death, Have Mercy (Vera Hall) -- I Want Jesus to Walk With Me (James Shorty & Mississippi Fred McDowell) -- Jesus Is Real to Me (Mrs. Mary Lee, The Congregation) -- I Love the Lord (Reverend R.C. Crenshaw & Congregation) -- A Sermon Fragment (Reverend G.I. Townsel) -- I'm Goin' Home on the Mornin' Train (Reverend R.C. Crenshaw & Congregation) -- Power (Madam Mattie Wigley, The Congregation) -- On That Rock (Viola James, Lonnie Young, Ed Young) -- Jesus on the Mainline (James Shorty, Viola James, The Congregation) -- I'm Gonna Sail Like a Ship on the Ocean (Henry Morrison & St. Simon's Island Singers) -- Blow Gabriel (John Davis, Bessie Jones, St. Simon's Island Singers) -- What Do You Think About Jesus (He's Alright) (Bernice McClellan, The Congregation) -- Tribulations (Estil C. Ball, Lacey Richardson, Blair Reedy) -- When I Get Home (Estil C. Ball, Blair Reedy) -- The Poor Wayfaring Stranger (Estil C. Ball) -- Baptizing Down by the Creek (Mountain Ramblers) -- Sermon and Lining Hymn (Reverend I.D Back, The Congregation) -- Antioch (Alabama Sacred Harp Singers) -- Calvary (Alabama Sacred Harp Singers) -- Please Let Me Stay a Little Longer (Alabama Sacred Harp Singers) -- Father, Jesus Loves You (Estil C. Ball) -- Lonesome Valley (Estil C. Ball, Lacey Richardson, Orna Ball, Blair Reedy) -- Father Adieu (Estil C. Ball) -- The Old Country Church (Mountain Ramblers) -- Cabin on the Hill (Estil C. Ball, Lacey Richardson) -- Disc 4. American folk songs for children: Johnson's Old Gray Mule (Mainer Band) -- My Little Rooster (Almeda Riddle) -- Whoa Mule (Mainer Band) -- Frog Went a-Courtin' (Almeda Riddle) -- Glenn's Chimes (Mainer Band) -- Chick-a-Li-Lee-Lo (Almeda Riddle) -- Old Joe Clark (Mountain Ramblers) -- Go Tell Aunt Nancy (Almeda Riddle) -- Train III (Mainer Band) -- Johnny Cuckoo (Bessie Jones & Group) -- Mama Buy Me a Chiney Doll (Almeda Riddle) -- Soldier, Soldier (Hobart Smith) -- Mary Mack (Jessie Pratcher, Mattie Garder, Mary Gardner) -- Hambone (Bessie Jones) -- Banging Breakdown (Hobart Smith) -- Green Sally, Up (Jessie Pratcher, Mattie Garder, Mary Gardner) -- Sometimes (Bessie Jones & Group) -- The Arkansas Traveller (Hobart Smith) -- Paper of Pins (Estil C. Ball, Orna Ball) -- The Little Dappled Cow (Texas Gladden) -- Go to Sleep, Little Baby (Bessie Jones) -- Paddy on the Turnpike (Wade Ward, Charley Higgins, Charley Poe) -- Jimmy Sutton (Spencer Moore, Roy Birns) -- Liza Jane (Mountain Ramblers) -- Oree (Lonnie Young, Ed Young, Lonnie Young Jr.) -- Train Time (Forrest City Joe) -- Freight Train Blues (Mississippi Fred McDowell) -- This Little Light of Mine (James Shorty, Viola James, The Congregation) -- Motherless Children (Felix Dukes, Mississippi Fred McDowell) -- Little Moses (Neil Morris). |
| Credits |
Program booklet writer, Alan Lomax ; overview, Robert Palmer. |
| Summary |
The material for these discs was culled out of eighty hours of field tapes. Some of the songways date back to ancient European or African origins. Others were created in the pioneer period. Still others were born yesterday. It is the merging of the creativity of the South, where country folk -- people of African and British descent -- continue to shape the deep songs of this country. |
| Subject |
Folk songs, English -- Southern States.
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Folk songs, English. |
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Southern States. |
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Ballads, English -- Southern States.
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Ballads, English. |
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Folk music -- Southern States.
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Folk music. |
| Genre/Form |
Blues (Music)
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Gospel music.
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Gospel music.
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| Subject |
Children's songs -- Southern States.
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Children's songs. |
| Genre/Form |
Children's songs.
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Blues (Music)
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| Subject |
United States -- Southern States -- Sound recordings. |
| Genre/Form |
Folk music.
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Folk music.
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Sound recordings.
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Sound recordings.
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| Added Title |
Southern folk heritage series.
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| Standard No. |
7567824962 |
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075678249624 |
| Music No. |
7 82496-2 Atlantic |
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82496-2 Atlantic |
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