VA - The Alan Lomax Field Recordings Vol. 1 - 17 [Document Rec./FLAC]

 Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music of the 20th century. He was also a musician himself, as well as a folklorist, archivist, writer, scholar, political activist, oral historian, and film-maker. Lomax produced recordings, concerts, and radio shows in the US and in England, which played an important role in preserving folk music traditions in both countries, and helped start both the American and British folk revivals of the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s. He collected material first with his father, folklorist and collector John A. Lomax, and later alone and with others, Lomax recorded thousands of songs and interviews for the Archive of American Folk Song, of which he was the director, at the Library of Congress on aluminum and acetate discs. 

Vol. 1 - Virginia 1936-1941 (1997)

Vol. 2 - North & South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas 1926-1943 (1997)

Vol. 3 - Mississippi 1936-1942 (1997)

Vol. 4 - Mississippi & Alabama 1934-1942 (1997)

Vol. 5 - Louisiana, Texas, Bahamas 1933-1940 (1997)

Vol. 6 - Texas 1933-1958 (1997)

Vol. 7 - Florida 1935-1936 (1998)

Vol. 8 - Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi 1934-1947 (1998)

Vol. 9 - Georgia, South & North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky 1924-1939 (1998)

Vols. 10 & 11 - 1933-1941 (2CD) (1998)

Vol. 12 - Virginia & South Carolina 1936-1940 (1998)

Vol. 13 - Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina, Delaware 1933-1943 (1998)

Vol. 14 - Texas, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky 1934-c.1950 (1999)

Vol. 15 - 'Rock Me, Shake Me' - Mississippi 1941-1942 (2002)

Vol. 16 - 'Boll Weevil Here, Boll Weevil Everywhere' - 1934-1940 (2004)

Vol. 17 - Son House - Library of Congress Recordings 1941-1942 (2012)

VA - Alan Lomax : Sounds of the South (4 CD, 1993) [FLAC]

 The music on this anthology has been derived from several notable albums of field recordings by ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax gathered in the South during the early 20th century. The primary components include the long-players Sounds of the South (1960), Blue Ridge Mountain Music (1960), Roots of the Blues (1960), Blues Roll On (1960), Negro Church Music (1960), White Spirituals (1960), and American Folk Songs for Children (1960). In Lomax's 1993 written introduction, he reveals that the four and a half hours housed in the package were "culled out of eight hours of field tapes" documented during a two-month tour in the summer of 1959 that began in Virginia and progressed into the Ozarks, the Mississippi Delta, and then the Georgia Sea Islands. While he goes on to explain the significance of his research, the authenticity of the living aural history really speaks for itself. Artists and songs of possible familiarity to enthusiasts of folk and blues are scattered throughout. Mississippi Fred McDowell's "Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning," "Shake 'Em on Down," and "Drop Down Mama," the Mountain Ramblers' "Cotton-Eyed Joe" and "Shady Grove," and Estil C. Ball & Orna Ball's "Jenny Jenkins" are taken from the Sounds of the South and Blue Ridge Mountain Music entries. The trio of Boy Blue (vocal/harmonica), Willie Jones (guitar), and Joe Lee (drums) provides a seminal reading of "Boogie Children," while Lonnie Young (vocal/bass drum), Ed Young (cane fife), and Lonnie Young, Jr. (snare drum) unleash a variation of "Sittin' on Top of the World" from Roots of the Blues and Blues Roll On. Negro Church Music and White Spirituals' sacred selections are highlighted by a "Sermon Fragment" from the Reverend G.I. Townsel as well as a "Sermon and Lining Hymn" featuring Reverend I.D. Back with his congregation and a stirring solo rendition of "Poor Wayfaring Stranger" by the previously mentioned Estil C. Ball. Perhaps most fascinating are the American Folk Songs for Children, as they transcend race or religious creed. Almeda Riddle's "Froggie Went A-Courtin'," Bessie Jones' "Hambone," Hobart Smith's "The Arkansas Traveler," the Mountain Ramblers' "Liza Jane," Mississippi Fred McDowell's "Freight Train Blues," James Shorty/Viola James & Congregation's inspired "This Little Light of Mine," and a rare confab between Felix Dukes and Mississippi Fred McDowell on "Motherless Children" all surpassed their era.

 

 

VA - Prison Songs - Historical Recordings From Parchman Farm 1947-1948 Vols. 1 & 2 [1997/FLAC]

 

"These songs belong to the musical tradition which Africans brought to the New World, but they are also as American as the Mississippi River. They were born out of the very rock and earth of this country, as black hands broke the soil, moved, reformed it, and rivers of stinging sweat poured upon the land under the blazing heat of Southern skies, and are mounted upon the passion that this struggle with nature brought forth. They tell us the story of the slave gang, the sharecropper system, the lawless work camp, the chain gang, the pen." --Alan Lomax

VA - Deep River of Song (The Alan Lomax Collection) [10 CD, 1999-2004]

  

Born in 1867, John A. Lomax is the person who put the Archive of American Folk Song on the map with his field recording trips. Under adverse circumstances he, and later his son Alan, were responsible for a singular achievement in preserving roots music. They published a number of song books, most of which are out of print.

Alan Lomax remains an enigmatic figure in the history of American roots music. Few can but be in awe of the amazing legacy of field recordings that he made in America and around the world. Rounder Records is in the midst of an amazing project with the Alan Lomax Archive to release 150 volumes of his field recordings in their Alan Lomax Collection. Already dozens have been released in various series. Of special interest is the Deep River of Song series which focuses on African American field recordings from 1933 to 1946. The latest two are stunning, Deep River of Song: Georgia (Rounder) and Deep River of Song: Alabama (Rounder) The four CD collection, Sounds of the South (Atlantic) from Lomax's 1959 trips through that region is another great sampler of his work. Alan Lomax also produced a five part PBS Television series American Patchwork, that over a decade ago looked at Delta Blues, Cajun music, jazz parades in New Orleans, Appalachian old time music and the contribution of elder songsters to roots music that is now available on video from Vestapol.

• Alabama - From Lullabies To Blues (2001)
• Bahamas 1935 - Chanteys & Anthems From Andros & Cat Island (1999)
• Bahamas 1935, Vol. 2 - Ring Games and Round Dances (2002)
• Black Appalachia: String Bands, Songsters and Hoedowns (1999)
• Black Texicans - Balladeers And Songsters of the Texas Frontier (1999)
• Georgia - I'm Gonna Make You Happy (2001)
• Louisiana - Catch That Train and Testify! (2004)
• Mississippi - Saints and Sinners - From Before the Blues and Gospel (1999)
• South Carolina - Got the Keys to the Kingdom (2002)
• Virginia And The Piedmont - Minstrelsy, Work Songs And Blues (2000)

Alabama - From Lullabies To Blues (2001)

1 Another Man Done Gone- Vera Ward Hall 1:24

2 Railroad Bill - Vera Ward Hall 1:19

3 Poor Lazarus - Vera Ward Hall 3:18

4 Been in the Jailhouse (Sun Gonna Shine in My Door Some Day) - Blind Jessie Harris 2:20

5 I Been Drinking - Vera Ward Hall 2:44

6 Honey, Take a Whiff on Me - Blind Jessie Harris 3:11

7 Train on a Hill - Rich Amerson 4:45

8 Alabama Bound- Rich Brown 1:46

9 Moaning (I'll Soon Be Gone) - Vera Ward Hall, Dock Reed, and Henry Reed 1:31

10 Job, Job - Dock Reed & Vera Hall Ward 2:46

11 Didn't That Hammer Ring? (I Can't Hold Out No Longer)- Dock Reed & Vera Hall Ward 2:54

12 What Is the Soul of Man? - Vera Ward Hall, Dock Reed, and Henry Reed 1:22

13 Knock John Booker (to the Low Ground)- Mary McDonald 1:40

14 Wake, Sally Baker - Joe & Mary McDonald 2:15

15 Go to Sleep, Little Baby - Harriet McClintock 2:33

16 Hush, Little Baby - Annie Brewer 0:43

17 Come Up Horsey, Hey, Hey (Little Lapdog Lullaby) - Vera Ward Hall 2:07

18 Little Bitty Man - Mary McDonald 1:08

19 Titty, Give Me Some Titty (Titty, Mama, Titty) - Mary McDonald 1:04

20 Hopali (Hop-A-Lee) - [unknown] 1:46

21 Ain't Gonna Rain No More - [unknown] 0:35

22 Jack, Can I Ride- [unknown] 2:00

23 Billy Goat Latin - Joe F. Williams & Booker T. Williams 1:39

24 Hog Hunt - Rich Amerson 2:25

25 I'm Chopping Cotton - Sim Tartt Group 1:24

26 Gin the Cotton - Harriet McClintock 0:52

27 Boll Weevil Blues (The Boll Weevil Holler) - Vera Ward Hall 1:18

28 Worried Blues - Tom Bell 2:44

29 Steamboat Days - Rich Amerson 5:01

30 Carrie, Carrie - Thomas Langston, Judge Broadus, Albert Nicholson & Joe Millhouse 1:23

31 Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-One (Ain't Working Song) - Charley Campbell 1:37

32 Captain, I'm Getting Tired - Willie Carter, Albert Nicholson, Allen Gordon & David Alexander 1:31

Bahamas 1935 - Chanteys & Anthems From Andros & Cat Island (1999)

1. Andros Island Group - Blow, Liza, Blow

2. Andros Island Group - Roll Him Along

3. Henry Lundy - Round the Bay of Mexico

4. Henry Lundy - Bowline

5. Andros Island Group - Long Time Ago

6. Andros Island Group - When You Go to Sea

7. Cleveland Simmons Group - Histe up the John B Sail

8. Andros Island Group - John Bully

9. Zacharias Green - Stand up from Below

10. David Pryor - When the Whale Get Strike

11. Andros Island Group - A Great Storm Pass Over

12. Andros Island Group - Mary, Come Join Our Religon

13. Andros Island Group - Swing Your Tail

14. Henry Lundy - Come Down, You Roses

15. Andros Island Group - O the Last One

16. Cleveland Simmons Group - I May Be Gone

17. Andros Island Group - All Night, Jesus, All Night

18. Andros Island Group - Sittin' Down 'Longside of My Lord

19. Andros Island Group - Dig My Grave

20. Andros Island Group - Down in the Valley

21. Andros Island Group - Time

22. Andros Island Group - Job

23. Andros Island Group - Here Am I

24. Andros Island Group - I Bid You Goodnight

Bahamas 1935, Vol. 2 - Ring Games and Round Dances (2002)

1. War Down The Line - Cleveland Simmons Group

2. Hallie, Rock - Deep River Of Song: Bahamas 1935, Ring Games And Round Dances

3. Sail, Gal - Elizabeth Austin & Group

4. Sailin' In The Boat - Elizabeth Austin Group

5. Little Sally Water - Elizabeth Austin Group

6. Sand Gone In My Cuckoo-Eye - Frederick McQueen & Group

7. Oh, Tilla - Fox Hill Male Group

8. The Devil Roll Like Thunder - Fox Hill Male Group

9. The Wind Blow East - Deep River Of Song: Bahamas 1935, Ring Games And Round Dances

10. Biddy, Biddy - Deep River Of Song: Bahamas 1935, Ring Games And Round Dances

11. Auntie Dinah - Deep River Of Song: Bahamas 1935, Ring Games And Round Dances

12. Evalina - Deep River Of Song: Bahamas 1935, Ring Games And Round Dances

13. Oh, Mama, Red-Eye - Deep River Of Song: Bahamas 1935, Ring Games And Round Dances

14. Congo Dance - Deep River Of Song: Bahamas 1935, Ring Games And Round Dances

15. No Lazy Man - Rowena Bell & Group

16. The Mail - Rowena Bell & Group

17. All, Day, All Night Long - Deep River Of Song: Bahamas 1935, Ring Games And Round Dances

18. Bimini Gal - Nassau String Band

19. Abaco Is A Pretty Place - Nassau String Band

20. Wasp Bite Nobi On Her Conch-Eye - Nassau String Band

21. Don't You Hurry Worry With Me - Nassau String Band

22. Delia Gone - Nassau String Band

23. Woman Is A Nation - Fox Hill Male Group

24. Married Woman Is A Secret Murder - Nassau String Band

25. Slide, Mongoose, Slide - Nassau String Band

26. Oh, Baby, Lick It Up - Deep River Of Song: Bahamas 1935, Ring Games And Round Dances

27. Bellamina - Nassau String Band

28. The Greyhound Boat/Round And Round The Barroom - Nassau String Band

29. Raw Rum, Gin And Toddy - Nassau String Band

Black Appalachia: String Bands, Songsters and Hoedowns (1999)

1. Jimmie Strothers – Cripple Creek

2. Murphy Gribble, John Lusk & Albert York – Christmas Eve

3. Theopolis Stokes – Washboard Rhythm

4. Nashville Washboard Band – Soldier's Joy

5. Nashville Washboard Band – Old Joe

6. Sid Hemphill, Lucius Smith, Will Head & Alec Askew – Arkansas Traveler

7. Sid Hemphill, Lucius Smith, Will Head & Alec Askew – Black Bayou

8. Blind Pete & George Ryan – Banty Rooster

9. Jimmie Strothers – Poontang Little, Poontang Small

10. Murphy Gribble, John Lusk & Albert York – Give The Fiddler A Dram

11. Murphy Gribble, John Lusk & Albert York – Eighth Of January

12. Introduction Of Band

13. Sid Hemphill, Lucius Smith, Will Head & Alec Askew – The Eighth Of January

14. Sid Hemphill, Lucius Smith, Will Head & Alec Askew – Skillet Good And Greasy

15. Sid Hemphill, Lucius Smith, Will Head & Alec Askew – Devil's Dream

16. Sid Hemphill, Lucius Smith, Will Head & Alec Askew – John Henry

17. John 'Black Sampson' Gibson – Steel-Laying Holler

18. Allen Prothero – Pauline

19. John 'Black Sampson' Gibson – Track-Lining Song

20. Sonny Terry – New Careless Love

21. Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry – The Red Cross Store

22. Brownie McGhee, Lead Belly & Sonny Terry – How Long Blues

Black Texicans - Balladeers And Songsters of the Texas Frontier (1999)

01. Moses 'Clear Rock' Platt - St. James Hospital (1:14)

02. Moses 'Clear Rock' Platt - The Old Chilsom Trail (1:09)

03. Pete Harris - Ranging Buffalo (The Buffalo Skinners) (1:06)

04. Lead Belly - Western Cowboy (3:33)

05. Percy Ridge - Western Cowboy (2) (2:11)

06. James 'Iron Head' Baker - St. James Hospital (2) (2:11)

07. Pete Harris - Jack of Diamonds (2:09)

08. Pete Harris - He Rambled (1:15)

09. Lightnin' Washington and work group - My Pretty Little Yellow Gal (My Yellow Gal) (3:15)

10. Unknown axe-cutting group - Pick a Bale of Cotton (1:59)

11. Moses 'Clear Rock' Platt - That's All Right, Baby (4:26)

12. 'Butter Boy' - Old Aunt Dinah (1:25)

13. Pete Harris - Square Dance Calls (Little Liza Jane) (2:16)

14. Smith Casey - East Texas Rag (2:10)

15. The Angelina Quartet - When I Was a Little Boy (2:39)

16. Ace Johnson - Rabbit in the Garden (2:56)

17. Henry Truvillion - Old Aunt Dinah (2) (2:24)

18. Henry Truvillion - Let's Go A-Huntin' (Come on Boys and Lets's Go to Hunting) (1:59)

19. Henry Truvillion - Walk-A-Dolly Walk (1:03)

20. Unknown harmonica player - Fox Chase (1:50)

21. Moses 'Clear Rock' Platt - Old Joe Clark (0:45)

22. Moses 'Clear Rock' Platt - Long Summer Day (1:57)

23. Uncle Billy McCrea - Log Rolling (1:53)

24. Arthur Armstrong - Buzzard Song (Old King Buzzard) (1:44)

25. Phineas Rockmore - Boll Weevil (2:39)

26. Don Mooney - Been on the Cholly So Long (1:05)

27. Will Roseborough and tie-tamping group - The Dallas Railway (1:31)

28. Phineas Rockmore - Traveling Man (3:10)

29. Unknown harmonica player - The Train (2:01)

Georgia - I'm Gonna Make You Happy (2001)

1. Boll Weevil - Blind Willie McTell

2. Dying Crapshooter's Blues - Blind Willie McTell

3. Captain Haney Blues - Camp Morris & Group

4. Po' Laz'us - Male Convict Group (previously unreleased)

5. Longest Train I Ever Saw - Jessie Wadley/John Wadley/Will Jones/Felix Davenport (previously unreleased)

6. Oh Lawdy Me, Oh Lawdy My - Male Convict Group (previously unreleased)

7. Hammer Ring - Paul Sylvester & Group (previously unreleased)

8. Judgement - Camp Morris & Group Of Six Men (previously unreleased)

9. Just as Well Get Ready, You Got to Die - Blind Willie McTell

10. All Night Long - Sophie Wing & Mixed Group (previously unreleased)

11. I Got to Cross the River Jordan - Blind Willie McTell

12. I'm Gonna Make You Happy - Buster Brown

13. Sally Walker - Sidney Stripling (previously unreleased)

14. Coon Ci'nt (Coonjine) - Sidney Stripling (previously unreleased)

15. Breakaway - Sidney Stripling (previously unreleased)

16. Sevassafool (Sebastopol) - Gus Gibson/Sidney Stripling

17. John Henry - Reese Crenshaw (previously unreleased)

18. Fast Train - John Lee Thomas

19. Poor Joe Breakdown - Robert Davis (previously unreleased)

20. War Song - Buster Brown

21. Southern Rag - James Sneed/J.F Duffey/Alvin Sanders

22. Smithy Rag - Smith Band

Louisiana - Catch That Train and Testify! (2004)

1. Hallelujah (Lamb on the Altar) - Washington Brown & Group

2. New Calvary - Washington Brown & Group

3. Lord, Lord Shorty - Joe Brown & Group (Washington)

4. Good Lord - Joe Brown & Group (Washington)

5. Catch That Train - Sam Ballard

6. Big Leg Ida - Sam Ballard

7. Julie Montgomery - Unidentified Male Section Group

8. Bye-Bye, Bonsoir, Mes Parents - Paul Junius Malveaux/Ernest Lafitte

9. J'ai Fait Tout le Tour du Pays - Jimmy Peters/Ring Dance Singers

10. La-Bas Chez Moreau - Cleveland Benoit/Darby Hicks

11. Je Veux Me Marier - Jimmy Peters/Ring Dance Singers

12. Moi Malheureux - Joe Massie

13. Si Li, Le Bat - Joe Massie

14. Bonsoir, Petit Monde - Paul Julius Malveaux/Ernest Lafitte

15. Zydeco Pas Salee - Anderson Moss & Group

16. Allons a LaFayette - Anderson Moss & Group

17. Goodnight Irene - Huddie Ledbetter

18. Mama Did You Bring Me Any Silver - Huddie Ledbetter

19. Little Liza Jane - Stavin' Chain & String Band

20. Trench Blues - John Bray

21. Baton Rouge Rag - Joe Harris

22. Winding Boy - Jelly Roll Morton

23. Tiger Rag - Jelly Roll Morton

Mississippi - Saints and Sinners - From Before the Blues and Gospel (1999)

1. Big Charlie Butler - It's Better To Be Born Lucky 1:28

Vocals - Big Charlie Butler

2. Lucious Curtis & Willie Ford - Stagolee 1:41

Guitar - Willie Ford

Guitar, Vocals - Lucious Curtis

3. Thomas "Jaybird" Jones - Walking Billy 4:08

Piano, Voice - Thomas "Jaybird" Jones

Voice - Alan Lomax

4. Joe Shores - Mississippi Sounding Calls 2:52

Vocals, Voice - Joe Shores

Voice - Herbert Halpert

5. Jim Henry - Come Here, Dog, And Get Your Bone 2:24

Vocals - Jim Henry

Voice - John A. Lomax

6. Sid Hemphill - Emmaline, Take Your Time 2:18

Panpipes [Quills], Vocals - Sid Hemphill

Voice - Alan Lomax

7. Sid Hemphill , Alec Askew , Lucious Smith & Will Head - Hog Hunt 4:42

Banjo - Lucius Smith

Bass Drum - Will Head

Fiddle, Vocals - Sid Hemphill

Guitar - Alec Askew

8. Will Starks - The Fox Hunter's Song 2:48

Vocals - Will Starks

9. Lucious Curtis & Willie Ford - Times Is Getting Hard 3:45

Guitar - Willie Ford

Guitar, Vocals - Lucious Curtis

10. Big Charlie Butler - Diamond Joe 2:15

Vocals - Big Charlie Butler

11. Crap Eye - One Morning At The Break Of Day (Wake Up Song) 1:55

Vocals, Percussion - Crap Eye

12. Jim Henry & Jeff Webster - Workin' On The Levee, Sleepin' On De Ground 1:37

Vocals - Jim Henry

Voice - Jeff Webster

13. Joe Miller & Jim Henry - Lord, I'm In Trouble 2:33

Vocals - Jim Henry , Joe Miller

14. Dobie Red - Stewball 5:15

Lead Vocals - Dobie Red

Vocals - Unknown Artist

15. Dobie Red - Rosie 2:45

Lead Vocals - Dobie Red

Vocals - Unknown Artist

16. Frank Evans - French Blues 2:13

Guitar, Vocals - Frank Evans

17. Reverend C.H. Savage - Rock Daniel 2:31

Lead Vocals - Reverend C.H. Savage

Vocals - Annie Anderson , Caroline Joiner , Charlie Drakes , Fannie Jackson , Henry Joiner , Hester Jones , James Clark , Joycie Stith , Louise Smith , Tom Jones

18. Reverend C.H. Savage - Interview 3:08

Voice - Alan Lomax , Reverend C.H. Savage

19. Henry Joiner & Annie Anderson - Hallelu, Hallelu 2:26

Lead Vocals - Annie Anderson , Henry Joiner

Vocals - Caroline Joiner , Charlie Drakes , Fannie Jackson , Hester Jones , James Clark , Joycie Stith , Louise Smith , Tom Jones

20. Reverend C.H. Savage - I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray 1:05

Lead Vocals - Reverend C.H. Savage

Vocals - Annie Anderson , Caroline Joiner , Charlie Drakes , Fannie Jackson , Henry Joiner , Hester Jones , James Clark , Joycie Stith , Louise Smith , Tom Jones

21. Henry Joiner - Conversion Experience 4:33

Voice - Henry Joiner

22. Reverend C.H. Savage - Let Me Ride 3:50

Lead Vocals - Reverend C.H. Savage

Vocals - Annie Anderson , Caroline Joiner , Charlie Drakes , Fannie Jackson , Henry Joiner , Hester Jones , James Clark , Joycie Stith , Louise Smith , Tom Jones

23. Deacon Tom Jones & Reverend C.H. Savage - If I Had My Way, I'd Tear The Building Down 4:10

Lead Vocals - Reverend C.H. Savage , Deacon Tom Jones

Vocals - Annie Anderson , Caroline Joiner , Charlie Drakes , Fannie Jackson , Henry Joiner , Hester Jones , James Clark , Joycie Stith , Louise Smith

24. Deacon Tom Jones & Reverend C.H. Savage - Little David 3:28

Lead Vocals - Reverend C.H. Savage , Deacon Tom Jones

Vocals - Annie Anderson , Caroline Joiner , Charlie Drakes , Fannie Jackson , Henry Joiner , Hester Jones , James Clark , Joycie Stith , Louise Smith

25. Reverend C.H. Savage - Calvary 3:26

Lead Vocals - Reverend C.H. Savage

Vocals - Annie Anderson , Caroline Joiner , Charlie Drakes , Fannie Jackson , Henry Joiner , Hester Jones , James Clark , Joycie Stith , Louise Smith , Tom Jones

South Carolina - Got the Keys to the Kingdom (2002)

1. Run, Mary, Run - Martha Wright, Lillie Cogswell Knox & Albertina Keith 3:20

2. John Write a Letter This Morning - Hannah Besselieu & Mittie Docter 2:07

3. Keep Workin' on a Building - Martha Wright & Lillie Cogswell Knox 1:14

4. Heaven Is a Beautiful Place, I Know - Hannah Besselieu & Mittie Docter 1:35

5. Right Down Here - Michael Maybank, John White, Francis Gadsden & Esau Sands 1:50

6. Ezekiel and the Dry Bones - John Simmons, Michael Maybank, John White, Francis Gadsden & Esau Sands 3:59

7. Daniel in the Lion's Den - Lillie Knox & Thelma Knox 2:10

8. Leprosy (Nicodemus) - Zack Knox 1:09

9. A Long Grave and a Short Grave - Zack Knox 2:49

10. Listen to the Roll - Zack Knox 1:27

11. When the Roll Is Called Again - Martha Wright, Lillie Knox & The Congregation of Jerusalem Baptist Church 1:33

12. Dead and Gone - Elsie Jenkins & Pearson's Funeral Home Choir 2:35

13. Gonna Take a Ride on the Chariot Wheel - D.W. White & Pearson's Funeral Home Choir 1:51

14. Got the Keys to the Kingdom - Lillie Knox 2:00

15. (Some of These Days) I'm Gonna Down to the River of Jordan - Zack Knox 2:20

16. Wants to Be in Heaven When the First Trumpet Sounds - Lillie Knox & Thelma Knox 2:56

17. I Have a Mother Gone to Glory Over Yonder's Ocean - Minnie Floyd & John A. Lomax 2:13

18. I'm Troubled About My Soul - Lillie Knox 2:23

19. Bye-O-Baby - Tina "Mom" Russell 1:32

20. Shoo Robin - Cecil, Martha, Edmond & Robert Owens 0:46

21. Ten Pound Hammer - John Simmons, Michael Maybank, John White, Francis Gadsden & Esau Sands 1:25

22. Oh Lordy Me, Oh Lordy My - J.M. Williams and Group 1:52

23. I Sure Can't Stand It Long - Luther Mack, Tommy Miller, William Long & Julius Harmon 3:13

24. Look Down That Long Lonesome Road - [unknown] 1:28

25. Tally Rally Devil - Willie James Skinner 2:17

26. The Downward Road - Jim Williams and Group 2:15

27. Where Is the Gambling Man? - Jim Williams and Group 2:54

28. Ain't but the One Train Run This Track (All Night Long) - D.W. White & Pearson's Funeral Home Choir 3:15

29. Honey in the Rock - D.W. White & Pearson's Funeral Home Choir 2:11

Virginia And The Piedmont - Minstrelsy, Work Songs And Blues (2000)

1. Old Dan Tucker - Golden Gate Quartet

2. Corn-Shucking Time - Jimmie Strothers

3. Jaybird - Jimmie Strothers

4. Georgia Land - Jimmie Owens

5. I Used To Work On A 'Tractor - Jimmie Strothers

6. Wild Ox Moan - Rollie Lee Johnson

7. Boll Weevil - Willie Williams

8. Po' Farmer - Lemuel Jones

9. Fox Chase - Sonny Terry/Brownie McGhee

10. I'll Go On - Joe Lee

11. I Feel The Spirit Moving - Michael Lewis And Group

12. We're Almost Down To The Shore - Jimmie Strothers

13. This Land Of Georgia - Joe Lee

14. Can't Hide - unknown

15. Noah And The Flood - Norman Haskins

16. Run, Sinner, Run - Golden Gate Quartet

17. Take This Hammer - Jimmie Strothers

18. Walk Down, Devils - James Wilson And Group

19. Railroad Wreck - Wille Williams

20. Bitin' Spider - Willie Williams And Group

21. John Henry - Sonny Terry/Brownie McGhee

22. Tin Can Alley - Ezra Lewis

23. Pick 'Em Up - Albert Shepherd And Group

24. Prison Blues - Robert Higgins

25. Every Mail Day - J. Kirby And Group

26. When I Lie Down Last Night - Blind Joe

27. Worried Blues - Sonny Terry

28. Going To Richmond - Jimmie Strothers

Bessie Jones & the Georgia Sea Island Singers - Get In Union recordings by Alan Lomax 1959 - 1966 [2 CD, 2020]

 Bessie Jones was one of the most popular performers on the 1960s and '70s folk circuit, appearing usually at the helm of the Georgia Sea Island Singers at colleges, festivals, the Poor People's March on Washington, and Jimmy Carter's inauguration. GET IN UNION is a collection of her classic recordings with the Singers, combined with previously unavailable solo and small-group performances captured by Alan Lomax between 1959 and 1966. This digital-only release by the Alan Lomax Archive is an expanded version of the two-CD set issued by Tompkins Square in 2013, featuring nine previously unreleased tracks.

Alan Lomax first visited the Georgia Sea Island of St. Simons in June of 1935 with folklorist Mary Elizabeth Barnicle and author Zora Neale Hurston. There they met the remarkable Spiritual Singers Society of Coastal Georgia, as the group was then called, and recorded several hours of their songs and dances for the Library of Congress. Returning 25 years later, Lomax found that the Singers were still active, and had been enriched by the addition of Bessie Jones, a South Georgia native with a massive collection of songs going back to the slavery era.

CD 1 

01. Sheep Sheep Don't You Know the Road

02. You Better Mind

03. Plumb The Line

04. O Day (Yonder Come Day)

05. Moses Don't Get Lost

06. Blow Gabriel

07. Got To Lie Down (How Shall I Rise)

08. Sometimes

09. Shoo Turkey

10. Adam In The Garden

11. Daniel in the Lion's Den

12. Little David, Play on Your Harp

13. You Got to Reap Just What You Sow/Just a Little Talk with Jesus

14. O Mary Don't You Weep

15. Throw Me Overboard

16. Going to Chattanooga

17. See Aunt Dinah

18. John Henry

19. Sink 'Em Low

20. Diamond Joe

21. Live Humble

22. Get in Union

23. Elephant Fair

24. Uncle Ned

25. That Suits Me

CD 2 

01. No Hiding Place Down Here

02. O Death

03. Dead and Gone

04. Prayer

05. Sign of the Judgement

06. This Train Is a Clean Train

07. Turkle Dove

08. Beulah Land

09. Let Me Fly

10. Walk Daniel

11. I'm Gonna Lay Down My Life for My Lord

12. Way Down Yonder in the Brickyard

13. Bob Young's Song and Whoop

14. Read 'Em, John

15. Before This Time Another Year

16. Once There Was No Sun

17. There Was an Old Lady from Brewster

18. Little Johnny Brown

19. Prodigal Son

20. Take Me to the Water

21. Drinking That Wine

22. Once There Was No Sun [II]

23. One Morning Soon

24. Buzzard Lope

25. One of These Days [I]

26. One of These Days [II]