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Alabama : from lullabies to blues
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- Format
- Sound Recordings
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Cambridge, MA : Rounder Records, [2001]
- ℗2001
- Physical Details
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- 1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in
- OCLC
- ocm47810178, ocn697953458
- Credits
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- Various performers
- Original field recordings produced by John A. Lomax and Ruby Terrill Lomax, assisted by Ruby Pickens Tartt
- Compact disc.
- Program notes by Jerrilyn McGregory, song texts with contextualization, and selected bibliography ([36] p. : ill.) inserted in container.
- All selections recorded between 1934 and 1940.
- Another man done gone (Vera Ward Hall) -- Railroad Bill (Vera Ward Hall) -- Poor Lazarus (Vera Ward Hall) -- Been in the jailhouse (Sun gonna shine in my door some day) (Blind Jessie Harris) -- I been drinking (Vera Ward Hall) -- Honey, take a whiff on me (Blind Jessie Harris) -- Train on a hill (train imitation) (Richard Amerson) -- Alabama bound (Rich Brown) -- Moaning (I'll soon be gone) (Vera Ward Hall, Dock Reed, and Henry Reed) -- Job, Job (Dock Reed and Vera Ward Hall) -- Didn't that hammer ring? (I can't hold out no longer) (Dock Reed and Vera Ward Hall) -- What is the soul of man? (Dock Reed, Henry Reed, and Vera Ward Hall) -- Knock John Booker (To the low ground) (Mary McDonald) -- Wake, Sally Baker (Joe and Mary McDonald) -- Go to sleep (little baby) (Harriet McClintock) -- Hush, little baby (Annie Brewer) -- Come up horsey (Vera Ward Hall) -- Little bitty man (Mary McDonald) -- Titty, give me some titty (Mary McDonald) -- Hopali (eight unidentified girls) -- Ain't gonna rain no more (eight unidentified girls) -- Jack, can I ride (unidentified children) -- Billy goat Latin (Joe F. Williams and Booker T. Williams) -- Hog hunt (Richard Amerson) -- I'm chopping cotton (Sim Tartt Group) -- Gin the cotton (Harriet McClintock) -- Boll weevil blues (Vera Ward Hall) -- Worried blues (Tom Bell) -- Steamboat days (Richard Amerson) -- Carrie, Carrie (Thomas Langston, Judge Broadus, Albert Nicholson & Joe Millhouse) -- Eighteen hundred and ninety-one (Ain't working song) (Charley Campbell) -- Captain, I'm getting tired (Willie Carter, Albert Nicholson, Allen Gordon, and David Alexander)