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DescriptionThirty Library of Congress field recordings from 1933 to 1946, compiled and thoroughly annotated by Stephen Wade. There are many Library of Congress collections, but the diversity of performances on this disc might make one of the better selections for someone who's interested enough in folkloric recordings to have just a few, as opposed to an academic who wants to hear as much as possible. There's Appalachian folk music, African-American spirituals, nursery rhymes by black Mississippi children, rural Southern blues, and even an a cappella ballad by a Harvard-educated judge. There are a couple of well-known performers as well: Woody Guthrie does "The Gypsy Davy," and Sonny Terry has a trademark puffing harmonica workout on "Lost John." But largely these are folks who performed mostly for their neighbors or houses of worship. It's not the point of a collection such as this to illustrate how this music influenced pop, but there are some real interesting renditions of songs that later became famous in other hands: "Blood-Strained Banders" (done here by Jimmie Strothers) was adapted into "Good Shepherd" by the Jefferson Airplane; "Sea Lion Woman" (Christine and Katherine Shipp) was done by Nina Simone, and "Another Man Done Gone" (Vera Hall) was covered by John Mayall. There's also the first recorded performance of "Rock Island Line" (by inmates at an Arkansas penitentiary in 1934), which became a folk music standard and eventually started the skiffle craze in England. Track listing 1 W. H. Stepp - Bonaparte's Retreat 2 Kelly Pace - Rock Island Line 3 E.C. Ball - Pretty Polly 4 Ora Dell Graham - Pullin' the Skiff 5 Ora Dell Graham - Shortenin' Bread 6 Christine and Katherine Shipp - Sea Lion Woman 7 Nashville Washboard Band - Soldier's Joy 8 Vera Hall - Another Man Done Gone 9 Paine Denson - Northfield 10 Turner Junior Johnson - When I Lay My Burden Down 11 W.E. Claunch - Grub Springs 12 Rev. Bozie Sturdivant - Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down 13 Learned Hand - Iron Merrimac 14 Margaret - Creek Lullaby 15 Pete Steele - Coal Creek March 16 David "Honeyboy" Edwards - Worried Life Blues 17 Texas Gladden - One Morning in May 18 Jimmie Strothers - Blood-Strained Banders 19 Jess Morris - Goodbye, Old Paint 20 Wash Dennis and Charlie Sims - Lead Me to the Rock 21 Luther Strong - Glory in the Meetinghouse 22 John J. Quinn - The Avondale Mine Disaster 23 Thaddeus C. Willingham - Roll on the Ground 24 Charlie Butler - Diamond Joe 25 Sonny Terry - Lost John 26 Elita, Mary and Ella Hoffpauir - Sept ans sur mer 27 Smith Casey - East Texas Rag 28 Wade Ward - Old Joe Clark 29 Woody Guthrie - The Gypsy Davy 30 Belo Cozad - Kiowa Story of the Flute Related Torrents
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