Contents: 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 LAN

Contents: Camp hollers (Son House, Willie Brown, Fiddlin' Joe Martin) -- Cornfield hollers (Charley Berry) -- I'm a soldier in the army of the Lord (Silent Grove Baptist Church congregation) -- I'm gonna lift up a standard for my King (Church of God in Christ congregation) -- Worried life blues (David Edwards) -- Ragged and dirty (William Brown) -- Special rider blues (Son House) -- Depot blues (Son...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 1997

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES NEG

Patton, Charley

Contents: Disc A, June 1929 (featuring Walter Hawkins, vocals, guitar). Pony blues -- A spoonful blues -- Down the dirt road blues -- Prayer of death, part 1 -- Prayer of death, part 2 -- Screamin' and hollerin' the blues -- Banty rooster blues -- Tom Rushen blues -- It won't be long -- Shake it and break it (but don't let it fall, Mama) -- Pea vine blues -- Mississippi boll weevil blues -- Lord, I'm...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2002

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES PAT

McCormick, Mack

Summary: When blues master Robert Johnson's little-known recordings were rereleased to great fanfare in the 1960s, little was known about his life, giving rise to legends that he gained success by selling his soul to the devil. McCormick searched to uncover Johnson's life story, from the late 1960s until his own death in 2015. Here McCormick's manuscript is published for the first time, including...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHNSON, ROBERT MCC

McDowell, Fred.

Contents: I'm going down the river (with Fanny Davis, comb, Miles Pratcher, guitar) -- 61 Highway blues -- Wished I was in heaven sitting down -- When the train come along (with Sidney Carter, Rose Hemphill, vocals) -- Shake 'em on down (with Fanny Davis, comb, Miles Pratcher, guitar) -- Worried mind -- Woke up this morning with my mind on Jesus -- You done told everybody -- Keep your lamps trimmed and...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Records 1997

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES MCD

Johnson, Robert

Contents: I believe I'll dust my broom (3:00) -- Phonograph blues (2:35) -- Ramblin' on my mind (2:53) -- Kindhearted woman blues (2:51) -- Terraplane blues (3:01) -- I'm A steady rollin' man (2:38) -- Walking blues (2:29) -- Last fair deal gone down (2:39) -- Dead shrimp blues (2:36) -- Sweet home Chicago (3:02) -- 32-20 blues (2:51) -- Come on in my kitchen (2:50) -- If I had possession over Judgement...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL BLUES JOH

Contents: Special streamline / Bukka White (2:53) -- Bye bye blues / Tommy Johnson (3:00) -- Hard time killin' floor blues / Skip James (2:47) -- I'll go with her / Robert Wilkins (3:03) -- Country farm blues / Son House (2:08) -- Who's been here? / Bo Carter (2:34) -- Trouble hearted blues (Take 2) / Ishman Bracey (3:20) -- The world is going wrong / Mississippi Sheiks (3:21) -- That won't do / Arthur...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES ROU

Johnson, Robert

Contents: Kind hearted woman blues (2:28) -- I believe I'll dust my broom (2:57) -- Sweet home Chicago (2:57) -- Ramblin' on my mind (2:50) -- Phonograph blues (2:38) -- They're red hot (2:56) -- Dead shrimp blues (2:29) -- Preachin' blues (Up jumped the devil) (2:49) -- I'm a steady rollin' man (2:35) -- From four until late (2:22) -- Little queen of spades (2:16) -- Malted milk (2:20) -- Druken hearted...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Legacy 2004

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES JOH

Contents: C.C. Rider (Big Bill Broonzy) (2:34) -- Woman in Elaine, Arkansas (Roosevelt Sykes) (2:23) -- Death letter blues (Son House) (2:58) -- Your crying won't make me stay (K.C. Douglas and Richard Riggins) (2:43) -- Columbus, Mississippi blues (Bukka White) (3:30) -- I'm goin' to walk your log (William "Cat Iron" Carradine) (1:53) -- Why did you go last night (Clifton Chenier) (3:17) -- I stand and...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2018

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES CLA

Metcalfe, Gayden.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Books 2005

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 395.2 MET

Johnson, Robert

Contents: Cross road blues (2:27) -- Traveling riverside blues (2:44) -- Walkin' blues (2:28) -- I believe I'll dust my broom (2:57) -- Hell hound on my trail (2:35) -- Kind hearted woman blues (2:49) -- Ramblin' on my mind (2:50) -- Stop breakin' down blues (2:16) -- Come on in my kitchen (2:49) -- 32-20 blues (2:48) -- From four until late (2:23) -- I'm a steady rollin' man (2:35) -- Love in vain...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Legacy 1997

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3 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES JOH