The land where the blues began.

The land where the blues began.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002
Language:English
Published: [Cambridge, MA] : Rounder Records, 2002.
Series:Alan Lomax collection.
Subjects:
Blues (Music) > Mississippi > Delta (Region)
Gospel music > Mississippi > Delta (Region)
Folk songs, English > Mississippi > Delta (Region)
Sermons, American > African American authors.
African Americans > Mississippi > Delta (Region) > Music.
Field recordings > Mississippi > Delta (Region)
African Americans
Blues (Music)
Field recordings
Folk songs, English
Gospel music
Sermons, American > African American authors
Mississippi > Delta (Region)
Music
Gospel music.
Blues.
Gospel.
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Table of Contents:
  • Four' o'clock flower blues (Willie "61" Blackwell & William Brown) (3:53)
  • Interview (Willie "61" Blackwell) (:24)
  • Walking blues (Son House, Fiddlin' Joe Martin, Willie Brown, Leroy Williams) (6:41)
  • When I lay my burden down (Turner Junior Johnson) (3:29)
  • Strange things happening in the land (Charles Haffer, Jr.) (3:43)
  • Missionary sermon : excerpt (J.H. Terrell) (2:08)
  • Rock, Daniel (Rev. C.H. Savage and group) (2:31)
  • Satisfied (Florence Stamp and group of girls) (1:04)
  • I'm a soldier in the army of the Lord (congregation of the Church of God in Christ, Clarksdale) (3:18)
  • Sermon : Hell is a place : two excerpts (Rev. Ribbins) (4:20)
  • The preacher and the bear (M.C. Orr) (1:29)
  • Mississippi sounding calls (Joe Shores) (1:04)
  • Roustabout song (John Cameron) (1:00)
  • The toast to Bud Doggett (Will Stark) (:56)
  • I been down in the circle before (Sampson Pittman and Calvin Frazier) (3:48)
  • Rosie (Dobie Red and group) (2:44)
  • Early in the morning ("22", Little Red, Tangle Eye, and Hard Hair) (4:41)
  • I'm goin' home (D.W. "Bama" Stuart) (2:05)
  • Go down, old Hannah (Ernest Williams and group) (2:38)
  • John Henry (Sid Hemphill, Lucius Smith, Will Head, & Alec Askew) (3:11)
  • Emmaline, take your time (Alec Askew) (1:39)
  • Jim and John (Ed Young, Lonnie Young, G.D. Young) (2:12)
  • Shake 'em on down (Fred McDowell) (2:38)
  • Wind howling blues (David "Honeyboy" Edwards) (3:14)
  • Country blues (Muddy Waters) (2:18)
  • Black, brown and white (Big Bill Broonzy) (2:18)
  • Life is like that (Memphis Slim, with Big Bill Broonzy and Sonny Boy Williamson) (2:55)
  • She lived her life too fast (Forrest City Joe) (3:23).

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