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v/a - i'm gonna live anyhow untill i die - mississippi records - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Wave / Pop / Rock - Folk

1. JE Mainers Mountaineers - Number 111
2. Fred McDowell - 61 Highway
3. Bright Light Quartet - Chantey medley
4. EC Ball and Lacey Richardson - Tribulations
5. Bessie Jones and The Georgia Sea Island Singers - Daniel In The Lions Den
6. Unidentified Woman and Pentecostal Temple congregation - Heaven Is Mine
7. Emma Hammond - Shout Lula
8. Ervin Webb and Prisoners - Im going home
9. WROS Scottsboro Old-Time Religious Hour excerpt
10. Hobart Smith - The Devils Dream
11. Sid Hemphill and Lucius Smith - The Devils Dream
12. United Sacred Harp Convention - The Last Words of Copernicus
13. Elder ID Back - Poor Pilgrim Of Sorrow
14. Vera Ward Hall - The Last Month of the Year
15. Miles and Bob Pratcher - I'm Gonna Live Anyhow Until I Die

"People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and the work songs had gone sterile." -- Alan Lomax, 1960.

"In 1959 and 1960, at the height of the Folk Revival, Alan Lomax undertook the first-ever stereo field recording trip through the American South to document its still thriving vernacular musical culture. He traveled through Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, and North Carolina, making over 70 hours of recordings. The trip came to be known as Lomax's 'Southern Journey,' and its recordings were first issued for the Atlantic and Prestige labels in the early '60s. Those, however, as well as subsequent releases on New World and Rounder Records, are now all out of print. To remedy this, and to celebrate the Southern Journey's 50th anniversary, Mississippi Records and the Alan Lomax Collection have collaborated on five commemorative LPs, spanning the breadth of Lomax's '59-60 Southern recordings, drawing on new transfers of the original 1/4" tapes, and featuring a considerable amount of previously unreleased material. The five LP volumes feature singing siblings Hobart Smith and Texas Gladden from Saltville, Virginia; menhaden fishermen's chorus the Bright Light Quartet; the Young Brothers' Mississippi Hill Country fife and drum band; Blue Ridge instrumentalists Wade Ward and Charlie Higgins; Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers; work songs and hollers from Parchman Farm; congregational hymns from African American and white Appalachian meeting-houses; Alabama's singing washerwoman Vera Ward Hall; the 1959 United Sacred Harp Convention; and the debut recordings of bluesman Fred McDowell, among much else. Each volume is being sold separately with its own distinctive packaging. All come with a 12-page booklet featuring many never before published photos. Old school tip on sleeves & beautiful sound. Not to be missed!"