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Mississippi fiddle tunes and songs from the 1930s : 1939 Library of Congress Recordings Collected in Mississippi by Herbert Halpert
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- Format
- Sound Recordings
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- [United Kingdom] : Document Records, [2015]
- ℗2015
- Physical Details
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- 3 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in
- digital optical 1.4 m/s stereo
- audio file CD audio
- OCLC
- ocn929897365
- Credits
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- Various performers
- 147 field recordings made in 1939 by Herbert Halpert for the Library of Congress.
- Title from disc label.
- Compact discs.
- Program notes and track listing inserted in container.
- Recorded on location in the performers' homes Mississippi 1939 May-June.
- Vocals sung in English.
- Disc 1. Ol' molly hare -- Soldiers joy -- The eighth of January -- Grub springs -- Give the fiddler a dram -- Mississippi Sawyer -- Black-eyed Susie -- Wagoner -- Chicken pie -- Bear creek's up -- Grey eagle -- Pass around the bottle and we'll all take a drink -- The great Titanic -- Walkin' in the parlor -- Run nigger run -- Rabbit in the pea patch -- The devil's dream -- Sally Gooden -- Cindy -- Texas bells -- Raise big 'taters in sandy land -- Miss Sally at the party -- Wolves a howlin' -- Oh, yes, mammy, look at Sam -- How old are you, my pretty little miss -- Drunkard's hiccups -- Arkansas traveler -- Soldiers joy -- Eighth of January takes 1 & 2 -- The Arkansas traveler -- Tishomingo country blues -- Goin' up to Hamburg -- Scott number two -- Black-eyed Susie -- Old Miss Sally -- Grub springs -- Baldin or long-eared mule -- Tom and Jerry -- Pretty little gal all round town -- Farewell whiskey -- Bonapart's retreat -- Buffalo girl -- The little Danville girl -- Up the road, far as I can see -- Down yonder -- Leather breaches -- Billy in the low ground -- Git along home, Cindy -- Give the fiddler a dram -- Wolves a-howlin' -- Dusty miller -- Sally Goodin -- Froggie went-a-courtin' -- Not a-gonna have no supper here tonight -- Rats in the meal barrel --
- Disc 2. Frank Kittrell interview -- Indian war whoop -- Corn stalk fiddle and a shoe string bow : take 1 & 2 -- Goin' to the weddin' -- Little boy went-a-courtin' -- I want to go to meetin' and got no shoes -- Rye straw -- Hell after the yearlings -- Puncheon floor -- Great big yam potatoes -- Leather breaches -- Liza Jane -- Eighth of January -- Mississippi Sawyer -- W.A. Bledsoe interview -- Prettiest little gal in the county-o -- Big foot nigger in a sandy lot -- Stoney point -- Farewell Mary Anne -- Old Molly Hare -- Bill Cheatham -- Horace Kinard interview -- Liza Jane -- Railroad Bill -- My little dony -- Hard road to Texas -- Drunkard's he-cups -- Sally-o -- Jones country -- Steamboat -- Fisher's hornpipe -- Alabama waltz -- Big eyed rabbit -- Little Willie -- Rock candy -- My ol' dog's trailin' up a squirrel -- Cold frosty morning -- Bragg's retreat -- Hog eye -- [No name recalled] -- Throw the soap suds in the corner of the fence -- Soldier's joy -- Mississippi Sawyer -- Fisher's hornpipe -- Arkansas traveler -- Run, nigger, run -- Raker's hornpipe -- Texas wagon -- Indian eat the woodpecker -- Devil's dream -- Tom and Jerry -- Christmas times in the morning -- Pound cake and sugar -- Joke on the puppy -- Haste to the wedding -- Jig (no title recalled) -- Circus piece -- Chippy get your hair cut -- Leather breeches -- Calico --
- Disc 3. Possum and the racoon -- Eighth of January -- The old blue sow -- Buck dancin' Charlie -- Lost John -- Introduction to Henry Holmes holla -- Henry Holmes holla -- Old field rabbit -- Pickin' the devil's eye -- Where'd you get your whiskey -- Pore little Mary settlin' in the corner -- Pearl Brown -- Thaddeus Willingham interview -- Roll on the ground, boys -- Foin' on down town -- Rove, Riley, rove -- Shake your little foot, Sally Ann -- Black-eyed Susie -- Run, nigger, run -- Oh, my little darling -- Want a little water, Johnny -- Cross-eyed gopher -- Who will shoe your pretty little feet?/Mississippi Valley waltz -- Cripple creek -- Humpback mule -- Old Dan Tucker -- Uncle Bud -- Liza Jane -- Old Joe Clark -- Miss Cindy : take 1 & 2 -- Sally Goodin