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Performed by Felix Dukes & Fred McDowell. Recorded in Sadie Beck's Plantation, Arkansas, 1942. Performed by Lead Belly (Huddie Ledbetter). Recorded in Traverse City, Michigan, 1938. Performed by Macbeth the Great (Patrick McDonald) New York, New York, 1946. "Life Is Like That" ("You've Got to Cry a Little") Performed by James Shorty, Viola James & Independence Church. "I Been Drinkin' Water Out of a Hollow Log" Performed by Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield). Performed by Josephine Gonzales & other children. Performed by Lightnin' Washington & group. "God Moves on the Water" ("The Titanic") Recorded in Chilhowie, Virginia, 1959.Ĭall number: AFC 2004/004: T857.0, Track 7 "Gaol ise gaol I" ("She Is My Love, My Love Is She") Recorded in Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1942. Performed by Howlin' Wolf (Chester Burnett). Recorded in Senatobia, Mississippi, 1959. "Bonny Boy" ("The Trees They Do Grow High")
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Recorded in Salyersville, Kentucky, 1937. Alan Lomax started making recordings for the Library of Congress in 1933, with his father John, and recorded folk music and interviews from around the United States and the world on reel-to-reel tape between 19.
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Recorded in Lafayette, Louisiana, 1934.Ĭall number: AFC 1935/002: AFS 00095 A AFS 00095 B Album: The Alan Lomax Recordings Released: 2011 Style: Blues Format: MP3 320Kbps Size: 84 Mb. Alan Lomax's field recordings are available on a newly-redesigned site. Performed by the Sacred Harp Singing Society. And, if we have missed your favorite Lomax song, please let us know. Not all selections link to sounds files, but follow this site as we expand the number of online recordings and provide more information on individual pieces in the months to come. The list is intended to give a sense of the scope of the Lomaxes' work and the variety of artists they recorded. This list contains some of most widely-known and frequently performed "iconic" pieces that the Lomaxes documented through their field recordings, or increased public awareness of through commercial recordings, publications, radio programs, and concerts. Josephine and Aurora Gonzalez, Pearl Manchaco, Lia Trujillo, and Adela Flores.Īlan Lomax and other members of the Lomax family are associated with an enormous number of "classic" folk songs and traditional tunes. Lomax Family at the American Folklife Center The Grey Goose by James “Iron Head” Baker with R.D.Connect with us: Blog | Facebook | Podcasts | RSS | Webcasts.Black Betty by James “Iron Head” Baker with R.D.My Yellow Gal by James “Iron Head” Baker with R.D.Ain’t No More Cane on the Brazos by Ernest “Mexico” Williams with James “Iron Head” Baker.Ain’t No More Cane on the Brazos by Ernest “Mexico” Williams 1933.The Midnight Special by Ernest “Mexico” Williams.That’s Alright, Honey by Mose “Clear Rock” Platt.Also available as a CD through WVU Press. Jail House Bound is released digitally by Global Jukebox in collaboration with West Virginia University Press. The album is introduced by noted American music scholar Mark Allan Jackson (author of Prophet Singer: The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthrie). Jail House Bound, a production of West Virginia University Press, collects the earliest of the Lomaxes' prison recordings-made between July and December 1933 in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee-and draws on new remasters from the fragile original acetate discs. By late 1934, they had recorded dozens of singers and hundreds of songs-"poetic expressions," as Lomax described them, "of pungent wit, simple beauty, startling imagery, extraordinary vividness and power." The Lomaxes recorded the songs of timber and ground-clearing gangs, chants of the road and railroad crews, solo field hollers with their roots running deep into the antebellum south they also recorded comic songs, blues, and spirituals. Joined by his seventeen-year-old son Alan, Lomax visited some of the most notorious Southern penitentiaries-among them Sugar Land in Texas Angola in Louisiana Parchman Farm in Mississippi-where he knew anachronistic strains of African American folk-song would be preserved away from the influence of the radio, the phonograph, and cross-pollination with whites. Lomax made the first of his field-recording trips through the American South. In 1933, with the support of Macmillan Publishers and the Music Division of the Library of Congress, John A. JAIL HOUSE BOUND: JOHN LOMAX'S FIRST SOUTHERN PRISON RECORDINGS, 1933