Various Artists | Afro-American Spirituals, Work Songs, And Ballads

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Artist : Various Artists

Album: Afro-American Spirituals, Work Songs, And Ballads

Label: Rounder Select

Release: December 15, 1998

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Sales Rank: 99769

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1 Trouble So Hard
2 Choose Your Seat and Set Down
3 Handwriting on the Wall
4 The New Burying Ground
5 Lead Me to the Rock
6 The Blood-Stained Banders
7 Run, Old Jeremiah
8 Ain't No More Cane on This Brazos - Traditional
9 Long Hot Summer Days
10 Long John
11 Jumpin' Judy
12 Rosie
13 I'm Going to Leland
14 Jumping Judy
15 Look Down That Long, Lonesome Road
16 The Grey Goose - Traditional
17 John Henry - Traditional

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Album Rating: (5 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: In the 1930's, father and son John and Alan Lomax travelled through the South, collecting field recordings for the Library of Congress, in order to form a permanent record of the country's musical heritage. In 1942, six volumes of these and other recordings were released on thirty 78's. This collection is a remastering of the third volume of this series.

The music is deep and vital; the sound quality - though as to be expected of "field recordings" cannot detract from the power of these spirituals, chants, laments, and worksongs, recorded by ordinary people - laborers, clergy, prisoners - in their ordinary settings.

The record is essential listening for anyone interested in the history of Jazz, Blues, and Folk in America.