Summary: "Compilation of music from Diaspora populations in America, 1927-1948. This record runs the genre gambit between klezmer, calypso, Hawaiian, cajun, country, Cuban, Greek, gospel, Tex-Mex and beyond. Somehow this all fits together nicely and makes for a highly listenable compilation of early 78s. One of the LPs that cemented Mississippi’s aesthetic. Artists include Wilmouth Houdini, Marika...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mississippi Records 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL FOLK IBoggs, Dock
Contents: Down South blues (2:08) -- Country blues (3:48) -- Pretty Polly (2:52) -- Coal Creek march (1:53) -- My old horse died (1:43) -- Wild Bill Jones (2:08) -- Rowan County crew (6:06) -- New prisoner's song (2:51) -- Oh, death (3:15) -- Prodigal son (3:52) -- Mother's advice (3:38) -- Drunkard's lone child (4:04) -- Bright sunny South (3:36) -- Mistreated mama blues (1:49) -- Harvey Logan (3:24) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK BOGSmith, Hobart
Contents: The devil's dream -- Drunken hiccups -- The cuckoo bird -- Banging breakdown -- Arkansas traveler -- Railroad Bill -- Claude Allen -- Hangman, swing your rope -- Wayfaring stranger -- Sourwood Mountain -- Going down the road feeling bad -- Pateroller -- Chinquipin pie -- Last chance -- Jim along -- Two brothers (The little schoolboy) -- Ellen SMith -- Graveyard blues -- K.C. blues --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Records 2001