Contents
Four' o'clock flower blues (Willie "61" Blackwell & William Brown) (3:53)Interview (Willie "61" Blackwell) (:24)
Walking blues (Son House, Fiddlin' Joe Martin, Willie Brown, Leroy Williams) (6:41)
When I lay my burden down (Turner Junior Johnson) (3:29)
Strange things happening in the land (Charles Haffer, Jr.) (3:43)
Missionary sermon : excerpt (J.H. Terrell) (2:08)
Rock, Daniel (Rev. C.H. Savage and group) (2:31)
Satisfied (Florence Stamp and group of girls) (1:04)
I'm a soldier in the army of the Lord (congregation of the Church of God in Christ, Clarksdale) (3:18)
Sermon : Hell is a place : two excerpts (Rev. Ribbins) (4:20)
The preacher and the bear (M.C. Orr) (1:29)
Mississippi sounding calls (Joe Shores) (1:04)
Roustabout song (John Cameron) (1:00)
The toast to Bud Doggett (Will Stark) (:56)
I been down in the circle before (Sampson Pittman and Calvin Frazier) (3:48)
Rosie (Dobie Red and group) (2:44)
Early in the morning ("22", Little Red, Tangle Eye, and Hard Hair) (4:41)
I'm goin' home (D.W. "Bama" Stuart) (2:05)
Go down, old Hannah (Ernest Williams and group) (2:38)
John Henry (Sid Hemphill, Lucius Smith, Will Head, & Alec Askew) (3:11)
Emmaline, take your time (Alec Askew) (1:39)
Jim and John (Ed Young, Lonnie Young, G.D. Young) (2:12)
Shake 'em on down (Fred McDowell) (2:38)
Wind howling blues (David "Honeyboy" Edwards) (3:14)
Country blues (Muddy Waters) (2:18)
Black, brown, and white (Big Bill Broonzy) (2:18)
Life is like that (Memphis Slim, with Big Bill Broonzy and Sonny Boy Williamson) (2:55)
She lived her life too fast (Forrest City Joe) (3:23).
Additional Information
| Subjects |
Blues (Music)
-- Mississippi
-- Delta (Region)
Gospel music -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region) Folk songs, English -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region) Work songs -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region) Sermons, American -- African American authors. African Americans -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region) -- Music. Field recordings. |
| Publisher | Cambridge, Mass. :Rounder Select,2002 |
| Other Titles | Land where the blues began. |
| Contributors |
Lomax, Alan,
1915-2002. Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002. Land where the blues began. |
| Participants/Performers |
Various performers. |
| Language |
English |
| Notes |
Blues songs, interviews with blues musicians, sermons, sounding calls, and gospel songs from the Mississippi Delta region; "the soundtrack to Alan Lomax's ... book of the same name"--Container. Includes 8 previously unreleased tracks. Compact disc. Program notes, principally by Alan Lomax, and texts ([40] p. : ill.) inserted in container. |
| Description |
1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Other | Classic View |