Music Down Home: Negro / Various

Artista: Music Down Home: Negro / Var

Formato: COMPACT DISCS

Gravadora/Label: FOWY

Catalogo: 2691

Faixas: 1.1 Take This Hammer – Lead Belly
1.2 Field Call – Annie Grace Horn Dobson
1.3 Children’s Call – Annie Grace Horn Dobson
1.4 Complaint Call – Enoch Brown
1.5 Water on the Wheel – Annie Grace Horn Dobson
1.6 Railroad, 1 – Rich Amerson
1.7 Move Members Move – Rosie Hibler and Family
1.8 Go Pray Ye – Annie Grace Horn Dobson
1.9 The Day Is Past – Dorothy Melton
1.10 Prayer Song – Dock Reed
1.11 King David – Rich Amerson
1.12 Rockin’ Jerusalem – Fisk Jubille Singers
1.13 Just Got Over at Last – Little Brother Montgomery
1.14 Mama’s Goin’ to Buy Him a Little Lap Dog – Vera Hall Ward
1.15 Brother Hawk, Brother Buzzard and Brother Rabbit – Rich Amerson
1.16 I’m Goin’ Up North Satisfied – Children of East York School
1.17 Railroad, 2 – Rich Amerson
1.18 Lost John – Sonny Terry
1.19 Lost John – Prison Farm Work Group
2.1 I’m Goin’ to Pack Up My Things and Back Down That Sunny Road I’m Goin’ – Mozelle Moore
2.2 Careless Love – Brownie McGhee
2.3 Let Me Go Home, Whiskey – Snooks Eaglin
2.4 You’re My Man/Slick Chick Blues – Victoria Spivey
2.5 I Wonder When I’ll Get to Be Called a Man – Big Bill Broonzy
2.6 Mule Ridin’, Talking Blues – Big Bill Broonzy
2.7 Black Woman – Rich Amerson
2.8 Old John Booker/You Call That Gone – Gus Cannon
2.9 John Henry – Furry Lewis
2.10 Take Your Fingers Off It – Gus Cannon
2.11 44 Blues – Butch Cage
2.12 Sonny’s Jump – Sonny Terry’s Washboard Band
2.13 Birmingham Jail – Lead Belly
2.14 I’m So Glad – Montgomery Gospel Trio

This 1965 recording traces the evolution of African American folk music from the South. The oral tradition of folk music in the African American community has demonstrated a perseverance through the eras of slavery and segregation while embracing and influencing American popular music through songs, lyrics and performance. 33 songs, 1. 4 hours, with liner notes by producer Charles Edward Smith detailing the historical underpinnings of African American folk music and background notes on songs including lyrics.