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Virginia and the Piedmont : minstrelsy, work songs, and blues
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- Format
- Sound Recordings
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Cambridge, MA : Rounder Records, [2000]
- ℗2000
- Physical Details
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- 1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in
- OCLC
- ocm44994371
- Credits
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- Various performers
- Original field recordings produced by John A. Lomax, Alan Lomax, and Harold Spivackes
- Compact disc.
- Liner notes by Kip Lornell and song texts inserted in container.
- All selections recorded between 1933 and 1942.
- Old Dan Tucker (Golden Gate Quartet with Josh White) (1:02) -- Corn-shucking time (:57) ; Jaybird (:50) (Jimmie Strothers) -- Georgia land (Jimmie Owens) (1:21) -- I used to work on a 'tractor (Jimmie Strothers) (1:22) -- Wild ox moan (Rollie Lee Johnson) (2:13) -- Boll weevil (Willie Williams) (1:40) -- Po' farmer (Lemuel Jones) (1:24) -- Fox chase (Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee) (2:28) -- I'll go on (Joe Lee) (:50) -- I feel the spirit moving (Michael Lewis and group) (1:13) -- We're almost down to the shore (Jimmie Strothers) (2:19) -- This land of Georgia (Joe Lee) (1:15) -- Can't hide (Unidentified group) (2:00) -- Noah and the flood (Norman Haskins) (3:32) -- Run, sinner, run (Golden Gate Quartet with Josh White) (2:35) -- Take this hammer (Jimmie Strothers) (2:18) -- Walk down, devils (James Wilson and group) (2:19) -- Railroad wreck (Willie Williams) (1:25) -- Bitin' spider (Willie Williams and group) (3:58) -- John Henry (Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee) (2:28) -- Tin can alley (Ezra Lewis) (:55) -- Pick 'em up (Albert Shepherd and group) (1:53) -- Prison blues (Robert Higgins) (2:45) -- Every mail day (J. Kirby and group) (3:18) -- When I lie down last night (Blind Joe) (1:50) -- Worried blues (Sonny Terry) (2:28) -- Going to Richmond (Jimmie Strothers) (5:54)