FIELD RECORDINGS FROM ALAN LOMAX'S "SOUTHERN JOURNEY" 1959-1960 FIVE LP SET 2010
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In 1959 and 1960, at the height of the folk revival, Alan Lomax undertook the first-ever stereo field recording trip through the American South to document its still thriving vernacular musical culture. He traveled through Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, and North Carolina, making over 70 hours of recordings. The trip came to be known as Lomax's "Southern Journey," and its recordings were first issued for the Atlantic and Prestige labels in the early '60s. Those, however, as well as subsequent releases on New World and Rounder Records, are now all out of print. To remedy this, and to celebrate the Southern Journey's 50th anniversary, Mississippi Records and the Alan Lomax Collection have collaborated on five commemorative LPs, spanning the breadth of Lomax's '59-60 Southern recordings, drawing on new transfers of the original 1/4" tapes, and featuring a considerable amount of previously unreleased material.
The five LP volumes feature singing siblings Hobart Smith and Texas Gladden from Saltville, Virginia; menhaden fishermen's chorus the Bright Light Quartet; the Young Brothers' Mississippi Hill Country fife and drum band; Blue Ridge instrumentalists Wade Ward and Charlie Higgins; Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers; work songs and hollers from Parchman Farm; congregational hymns from African American and white Appalachian meeting-houses; Alabama's singing washerwoman Vera Ward Hall; the 1959 United Sacred Harp Convention; and the debut recordings of bluesman Fred McDowell, among much else.
This 5 record set contains:I'LL BE SO GLAD WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN WAVE THE OCEAN, WAVE THE SEA WORRIED NOW, WON'T BE WORRIED LONG I'LL MEET YOU ON THAT OTHER SHORE I'M GONNA LIVE ANYHOW UNTIL I DIE
EACH RECORD CONTAINS A BOOKLET WITH PHOTOS
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