Contents
Sheep, sheep, don'tcha know the road (Bessie Jones and the Sea Island Singers)The juice of the forbidden fruit (Neil Morris)
Devil's dream (Hobart Smith)
You got dimples in your jaws (Willie Jones & others)
Drunken hiccups (Hobart Smith)
You done tol' everybody (Fred McDowell)
The house carpenter (Almeda Riddle)
Straighten 'em (Bright Light Quartet)
Corn dodgers (Neil Morris)
I wished I was in heaven (Denise Gardner, Mattie Gardner & Fred McDowell)
Tribulations (Estil C. Ball, Lacey Richardson)
No room at the inn ; The last month of the year (Vera Ward Hall)
My mother died and left me (James Shorty & Fred McDowell)
Buttermilk (Miles Pratcher & Bob Pratcher)
The prayer wheel (Bright Light Quartet)
Guide me O thou great Jehovah (Ike Caudill and congregation of Mt. Olivet Old Regular Baptist Church).
Additional Information
| Subjects |
Blues (Music)
-- Southern States
-- 1951-1960.
Folk songs, English -- Southern States. Gospel music -- Southern States. Field recordings. |
| Publisher | Cambridge, Mass. :Rounder,1997 |
| Other Titles | Southern music, sacred and sinful |
| Contributors |
Lomax, Alan,
1915-2002. Jones, Bessie, 1902-1984, performer. Morris, Neil (Folk singer), performer. Smith, Hobart, 1897-1965, performer. Jones, Willie, 1929- performer. McDowell, Fred, performer. Riddle, Almeda, performer. Gardner, Denise, performer. Gardner, Mattie, performer. Ball, E. C. (Estil Cortez), 1913-1978, performer. Richardson, Lacey, performer. Hall, Vera, 1902-1964, performer. Shorty, James. Pratcher, Miles, performer. Pratcher, Bob, performer. Caudill, Ike, performer. Sea Island Singers, performer. Bright Light Quartet, performer. Mount Olivet Regular Baptist Church (Blackey, Ky.), performer. |
| Participants/Performers |
Various performers. |
| Language |
English |
| Notes |
Originally released as Prestige International INT[-DS-]25005; includes 3 previously unreleased selections. Compact disc. Program notes by Andrew L. Kaye and lyrics ([28] p. : ports.) inserted in container. |
| Description |
1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Other | Classic View |