RARE FOLKWAYS LP Music From The South 6: Elder Songsters 1
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Description
Various Artists, Music from the South Volume 6: Elder Songsters, 1 (Folkways FA 2655) (1956).
Field recordings made in AL, LA and MS in 1954 by Frederic Ramsey, Jr. All the performers on this LP were rural African-Americans aged between 60 and 95, and none had ever recorded before. With a 28pp booklet (spanning this and the companion volume), containing notes on the project, the performers and the songs, lyric transcriptions and several of Ramsey's fine photographs.
I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say/Most Done Traveling/Take This Hammer/The Chickens an' Crows/Riding My Buggy, My Whip in My Hand/Singing on the Old Church Ground/I'm So Glad That I Am Free/Just Over in the Glory Land etc. -- 19 tracks in all.
Condition: disc has a few scuffs and small marks, probably pressing flaws rather than damage from use. Booklet slightly yellowed at edges but otherwise excellent. Jacket has tiny bumps at corners, a tiny scrape on the front cover (on "SOUTH") and some other slight signs of wear and age, but no slits or other significant damage.
NOTE: Possibly because of their very specialised subject-matter, this LP and its companion volume are probably the hardest to find of the Music from the South series. In the seller's long experience, he cannot remember ever meeting a collector who owned them, and it is likely that most copies were acquired by libraries. This is therefore a very rare opportunity to acquire this important and excellently annotated documentary recording.
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