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Title:

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

Format:

[sound recording] /

Publisher:

Rounder Records,

Copyright Date:

p1998

Description:

1 sound disc : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Spirituals (Songs)
Work songs.
Ballads, English--United States.
Folk songs, English--Southern States.
African Americans--Music.
Spirituals (Songs)
Work songs.
Ballads, English--United States.
Folk songs, English--Southern States.

Other Authors:

Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002.
Lomax, John Avery, 1867-1948.
Library of Congress. Recording Laboratory.
Archive of Folk Culture (U.S.)

Notes:

"Originally released in the series Folk Music of the United States, Recording Laboratory, Library of Congress, AFS L3, 1942." Principally recorded 1933-1939 in the rural South, by John A. Lomax and others; edited by Alan Lomax. Compact disc.

Contents:

John Henry (2:54) Choose your seat and set down (2:35) ; Handwriting on the wall (Arthur Bell) (2:22) -- 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)

Series:

Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture

UPC:

018964151027

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)