East Baton Rouge Parish Library

Afro-American spirituals, work songs, and ballads, edited with notes by Alan Lomax

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Afro-American spirituals, work songs, and ballads, edited with notes by Alan Lomax
Language
eng
Form of composition
folk music
Format of music
not applicable
Main title
Afro-American spirituals, work songs, and ballads
Oclc number
41290098
resource.otherEventInformation
Principally recorded 1933-1939 in the rural South, by John A. Lomax and others; edited by Alan Lomax
Responsibility statement
edited with notes by Alan Lomax
Series statement
Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture
Table of contents
Trouble so hard (2:19) ; Choose your seat and set down (2:35) ; Handwriting on the wall (2:22) (Dock Reed ; Henry Reed ; Vera Hall) -- 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)

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