(Blues VA) - The Land Where the Blues Began

Styles: Folk-Blues, Field Recordings, Work Songs, Delta Blues, Pre-War Country Blues, Country Blues, Traditional Folk
Released: 2002
Label: Rounder
File: mp3@320K/s
Size: 175.9 MB
Time: 76:51
Art: front

1. Willie '61' Blackwell & William Brown - Four O'Clock Flower Blues - 3:51
2. Willie '61' Blackwell - Interview - 0:25
3. Son House - Walking Blues - 6:41
4. Turner Junior Johnson - When I Lay My Burden Down - 3:28
5. Charles Haffer Jr. - Strange Things Happening In The Land - 3:44
6. J.H. Terrell - Missionary Sermon - 2:08
7. Reverend C.H. Savage - Rock, Daniel - 2:31
8. Florence Stamp & Group Of Girls - Satisfied - 1:05
9. Congregation Of The Church Of God, Clarksdale, MS - I'm A Soldier In The Army Of The Lord - 3:17
10. Reverend Ribbons - Sermon (Hell Is A Place) - 4:22
11. M.C. Orr - The Preacher And The Bear - 1:28
12. Joe Shores - Mississippi Sounding Calls - 1:03
13. John Cameron - Roustabout Song - 1:00
14. Will Stark - The Toast To Bud Doggett - 0:55
15. Sampson Pittman & Calvin Frazier - I Been Down In The Circle Before - 3:48
16. Dobie Red - Rosie - 2:44
17. '22', Little Red, Tangle Eye & Hard Hair - Early In The Morning - 4:41
18. D.W. 'Bama' Stuart - I'm Goin' Home - 2:04
19. Ernest Williams - Go Down, Old Hannah - 2:38
20. Sid Hemphill, Lucius Smith, Will Head & Alec Askew - John Henry - 3:11
21. Alec Askew - Emmaline, Take Your Time - 1:38
22. Ed Young, Lonnie Young & G.D. Young - Jim And John - 2:11
23. Fred McDowell - Shake 'Em On Down - 2:38
24. David 'Honeyboy' Edwards - Wind Howling Blues - 3:13
25. Muddy Waters - Country Blues - 3:23
26. Big Bill Broonzy - Black, Brown And White - 2:18
27. Memphis Slim, Big Bill Broonzy & Sonny Boy Williamson - Life Is Like That - 2:55
28. Forrest City Joe - She Lived Her Life Too Fast - 3:18


This is the soundtrack to Alan Lomax's acclaimed book of the same name.
Recorded between 1933 and 1959 by Alan Lomax, Lewis Jones, John W. Work, John A. Lomax, and Herbert Halpert. Remastered to 24-bit digital from the original metal and acetate discs, and the original paper and acetate-backed tape recordings.
Alan Lomax takes us on an adventure into the "bad old days" of the post-slavery, Jim Crow Mississippi Delta ΓΓé¼ΓÇ¥ the birthplace of the blues ΓΓé¼ΓÇ¥ when railroads and levees were being built and cotton boomed at the expense of Southern working-class African Americans.
Singing of their misery and their barely concealed rage, the Bluesman enlisted their African heritage to keep their souls alive and in the process created the first satirical song form in the English language...