Contents: Sheep, sheep, don'tcha know the road (Bessie Jones and the Sea Island Singers) -- The juice of the forbidden fruit (Neil Morris) -- Devil's dream (Hobart Smith) -- You got dimples in your jaws (Willie Jones and others) -- Drunken hiccups (Hobart Smith) -- You done tol' everybody (Fred McDowell) -- The house carpenter (Almeda Riddle) -- Straighten 'em (Bright Light Quartet) -- Corn dodgers (Neil...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS SOUContents: Black Mary (Ruby McCoy) -- Won't be troubled long (Elijah Brown) -- Your close friend (Big Joe Williams) -- Goin' home with my baby (Avery Brady) -- Kokomo (Fred McDowell) -- Don't you want to be a member (Bert Logan) --Pearline (Elijah Brown) -- Uncle Sam called me (I got to go) (Arthur Weston) -- Bad weather (Avery Brady) -- Walkin' blues (Big Joe Williams) -- Rising sun, shine on (Ruby...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Testament Records 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES SOUVarious artists
Contents: Just a closer walk with Thee (Aubrey Ghent & friends) -- There's a leak in this old building (Paramount Singers) -- I want my crown (Big Joe & Mary Williams) -- Sinner don't you know (Robert Pete Williams) -- I feel good (The Campbell Brothers featuring Katie Jackson) -- I'm going over the hill (Annie Mae & Fred McDowell) -- Gonna wait till a change come (Elder Roma Wilson) -- Farther along...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Arhoolie 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS 15Summary: This watershed release represents the life's work of William Ferris, an audio recordist, filmmaker, folklorist, and teacher with an unwavering commitment to establish and to expand the study of the American South. William Ferris was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1942. Growing up on a working farm, Ferris began at a young age documenting the artwork, music, and lives of the people on the...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dust to Digital 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK VOISon Volt (Musical group)
Summary: The unique and haunting tunings of Mississippi Fred McDowell, Skip James, and Nick Drake are all points of exploration for vocalist Jay Farrar on Son Volt's latest album. It includes the track back Against the Wall. Jay Farrar said that when he picked up his electric guitar again after a few years, he wanted to create an album where folk, rock, blues and country converge into anyone could enjoy.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SONContents: Key to the bushes (Napoleon Strickland) -- Talking about bottleneck (Big Joe Williams) -- Traveling blues (Big Joe Williams) -- Crying won't help you (Robert Nighthawk) -- Six white horses (Fred McDowell) -- Knife instrumental (Mot Willis) -- Flora blues (John Lee Ganderson) -- Wild, wild woman (J.B. Hutto & the Hawks) -- St. Louis blues (Blind Connie Williams) -- Worryin' woman blues (David...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Testament Records 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES BOTMorlock, Rachael
Summary: "What are pesticides? Why are animals given antibiotics before they become food for us? Can hormones in the animals we eat affect our bodies? Readers explore the answers to these questions in this accessible look at a hot-button issue in nutrition and science. Balanced text presents important information in an objective way, while detailed sidebars provide even more detail. Readers are also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 615.9 MORContents: Broke down engine / Blind Willie McTell -- Shake 'em on down / Mississippi Fred McDowell -- My baby don't love me / John Lee Hooker -- Tall pretty woman / Stick McGhee -- Blues rock ; There goes the blues ; Bongo boogie / Texas Johnny Brown -- Two bones and a pick / T-Bone Walker -- Let me know / Chuck Norris -- Down through the years / Guitar Slim -- Okie dokie stomp / Cornell Dupree -- TV...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 1986
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES ATLContents: Volume 1. Dirty mother for you / (Roosevelt Sykes) -- So glad you're mine / (Arthur "Big BOy" crudup -- Too much alcohol / (J.B. Hutto & his Hawks) -- I wonder why / (Jimmy "Fast Fingers" Dawkins) -- Help me (A tribute to Sonny Boy Williamson) / (Junior Wells) -- I've got a mind to give up living / (B.B. King with Sonny Freeman and the Unusuals) -- John Henry / (Mississippi Fred McDowell) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES ANNContents: St. Louis blues / Bessie Smith featuring Louis Armstrong -- Mannish boy / Muddy Waters -- Good morning little school girl / Mississippi Fred McDowell -- No gettin' over you / Bonnie Raitt -- How long before I change my clothes / Alvin Youngblood Hart -- My soul's in Louisiana / Otis Taylor -- A Sunday kind of love / Etta James -- One room country shake / Buddy Guy -- Call it stormy Monday /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: NPR 2003
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES IMcDowell, Fred.
Contents: Write me a few of your lines -- Do my baby ever think of me -- Levee camp blues -- When the saints go marching in -- My bottleneck (story) -- Fred's worried life blues -- Kokomo blues -- Meet me down in Froggy Bottom -- Good morning little school girl -- Keep your lamp trimmed and burning -- Shake 'em on down -- Goin' away - won't be gone long -- I wish I was in heaven sitting down -- Fred's...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Arhoolie 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES MCDSummary: A beguiling murderer charms his unsuspecting family, but soon his niece and namesake begins to suspect her uncle is hiding a terrible secret.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Meet me in the city / Junior Kimbrough -- Going away, baby / R.L. Burnside & The Sound Machine -- Cut you loose / T-Model Ford -- Go back to your used to be / Jessie Mae Hemphill -- Write me a few lines / Mississippi Fred McDowell -- Catfish blues / Jimmy 'Duck' Holmes -- Love my baby / Little Junior's Blue Flames -- Rob & steal / Paul 'Wine' Jones -- Cotton crop blues / James Cotton -- Don't...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES MOJWaterman, Dick.
Summary: "Between Midnight and Day is the groundbreaking record of Dick Waterman's most important photographs from his unparalleled vintage blues archive. Beginning in 1964 with the rediscovery of legendary Delta blues singer Son House, Dick Waterman established Avalon Productions, the first agency devoted exclusively to managing and promoting blues musicians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 2003
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: 781.643 WATContents: O day (Bessie Jones) -- Katy went fishing with her hook and line (Hobart Smith) -- Walk in the parlor (Sid Hemphill & Lucius Smith) -- Mama's gonna buy (Vera Ward Hall) -- Wished I was in heaven sitting down (Fred McDowell) -- Po' Lazarus (Bright Light Quartet) -- The lass of Loch Royale (Neil Morris) -- Three nights drunk (J.E. Mainer and band) -- Turkey in the straw (Charley Everidge & Neil...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK SOUContents: Four' o'clock flower blues (Willie "61" Blackwell & William Brown) -- Interview (Willie "61" Blackwell) -- Walking blues (Son House, Fiddlin' Joe Martin, Willie Brown, Leroy Williams) -- When I lay my burden down (Turner Junior Johnson) -- Strange things happening in the land (Charles Haffer, Jr.) -- Missionary sermon : excerpt (J.H. Terrell -- Rock, Daniel (Rev. C.H. Savage and group) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Select 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES LANPiedra, Tony
Summary: "Deep in the tropical forest of Costa Rica, ten sticky frog eggs cling to a leaf. Only nine eggs hatch. Only eight tadpoles wind up in the water below. What will it take to survive the countdown to adulthood and begin the cycle again? This beautifully designed, color-drenched introduction to frog metamorphosis peeks at this animal's habitats and predators as it illustrates competition and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 597.8 PIEContents: Disc 1. I'm troubled (Doc and Arnold Watson) (3:10) -- The country blues (Dock Boggs) (4:24) -- Going down to the river (Fred McDowell) (3:09) -- East Virginia blues (Roscoe Holcomb) (4:51) -- The storms are on the ocean (Maybelle Carter) (3:03) -- The dream of the miner's child (The Stanley Brothers) (4:03) -- Soldier's joy (Hobart Smith) (1:45) -- Coffee blues (Mississippi John Hurt) (4:47)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK FRIContents: Set a date (Homesick James) (2:45) -- Dusty road (John Lee Hooker) (3:03) -- Nineteen years old (Muddy Waters) (4:58) -- San Francisco Bay blues (Jesse Fuller) (2:45) -- Blues in G (Mance Lipscomb) (3:34) -- Moanin' the blues (Mississippi John Hurt) (3:15) -- Dynaflow blues (Johnny Shines) (2:37) -- Mountain blues (Sonny Terry) (3:08) -- It's all right baby (Joe Turner & Pete Johnson) (2:39) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES GREGoldstone, Lawrence
Summary: "On December 7, 1941 -- "a date which will live in infamy" -- the Japanese navy launched an attack on the American military bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The next day, President Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan, and the US Army officially entered the Second World War. Three years later, on December 18, 1944, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which enabled the Secretary...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 341.6 GOLMcDonell, Terry
Summary: Terry McDonell has top-edited some of the most influential publications in American journalism. His new book pulls back the curtain on his four-decade career as an editor, journalist, and media entrepreneur, with stops at more than a dozen magazines: from the launch of Outside through tenures at Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, and, most recently, cofounding the literary...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCDONELL, TERRY MCDContents: Sliding Delta ; Candy man ; Coffee blues ; Stagolee ; Here I am Lord send me ; Pallet on your floor (Mississippi John Hurt) -- Devil got my woman ; Hard time killing floor blues (Skip James) -- Preaching blues ; Death letter blues ; Empire State express ; Son blues (Son House) -- Aberdeen Mississippi blues (Bukka White) -- Louise ; If the river was whiskey (Mississippi Fred McDowell) -- Walkin'...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Too wet to plow (4:20) / Johnny Shines -- You got to move (2:49) / Mississippi Fred McDowell -- Joshua fit the battle of Jericho (3:17) / Peg Leg Sam -- Sweet blood call (2:57) / Louisiana Red -- Cryin' shame (2:30) / Lightnin' Hopkins -- Playing with the thing (2:36) / Sonny Terry -- Fattening frogs for snakes (2:20) / Sonny Boy Williams -- Music is my business (2:38) / Roosevelt Sykes -- Dead...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tomato 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES GRESummary: The lectures in Part 6 bring the progress of philosophy into the present day, beginning with the work of Nietzsche and the American pragmatists William James and John Dewey. This section explains the work and consequence of modern linguistic and logical analysis in lectures on Ayer and Wittgenstein. Also discussed is the structuralism of Claude Levi-Strauss and the attempts to develop rational...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000