Audio Recording Negro blues and hollers
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PlayNegro Blues and Hollers - 02 Cornfield Hollers
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PlayNegro Blues and Hollers - 03 I'm A Soldier In The Army Of The Lord
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PlayNegro Blues and Hollers - 04 I'm Gonna Lift Up A Standard To My King
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PlayNegro Blues and Hollers - 05 Worried Life Blues
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PlayNegro Blues and Hollers - 06 Ragged And Dirty
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PlayNegro Blues and Hollers - 07 Special Rider Blues
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PlayNegro Blues and Hollers - 08 Depot Blues
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PlayNegro Blues and Hollers - 09 Misissippi Blues
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PlayNegro Blues and Hollers - 10 Four O'Clock Blues
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PlayNegro Blues and Hollers - 11 East Of St. Louis Blues
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PlayNegro Blues and Hollers - 12 Low Down, Dirty Dog Blues
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About this Item
Title
- Negro blues and hollers
Names
- Stearns, Marshall Winslow, compiler
- Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002, recordist
- Work, John W. (John Wesley), 1901-1967, recordist
- Jones, Lewis Wade, 1910-1979, recordist
- House, Son, performer
- Edwards, Honeyboy, performer
- Martin, Fiddlin' Joe, 1900-1975, performer
- Fisk University, sponsor
- Archive of Folk Song (U.S.), sponsor
- Library of Congress. Recording Laboratory
Created / Published
- Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, American Folklife Center, 2015.
- [Washington, D.C.]: Library of Congress, Recording Laboratory AFS L59, 1962.
Contents
- Camp hollers / Son House, Willie Brown, Fiddlin' Joe Martin -- Cornfield hollers / sung by Charley Berry -- I'm a soldier in the army of the Lord / sung by the congregation of Silent Grove Baptist Church, Clarksdale, Mississippi with trombone and guitar -- I'm gonna lift up a standard for my King / sung by the congregation of the Church of God in Christ, Lula, Mississippi -- Worried life blues / sung by David Edwards with guitar -- Ragged and dirty / sung by William Brown with guitar -- Special rider blues / sung and played by Son House with guitar -- Depot blues / sung and played by Son House with guitar -- Mississippi blues / sung by William Brown with guitar -- Four o'clock flower blues / sung and played by Willie Blackwell and William Brown with guitar -- East St. Louis blues / sung by William Brown with guitar -- Low down, dirty dog blues / sung and played by Son House with guitar.
Headings
- - Blues (Music)--1931-1940--Mississippi--Delta (Region)
- - Blues (Music)--1941-1950--Mississippi--Delta (Region)
- - African Americans--Mississippi--Delta (Region)--Music
- - African Americans--Arkansas--Music
Genre
- Blues (Music)
- Gospel music
- Songs
- Field hollers
- Field recordings
Notes
- - Sung by various musicians, principally with guitar accompaniment, including Son House, Willie Brown, Fiddlin' Joe Martin, Charley Berry, William Blackwell, William Brown, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Silent Grove Baptist Church congregation, Church of God in Christ congregation.
- - Recorded originally in Clarksdale, Lula, and Robinsonville, Mississippi and at Sadie Beck's Plantation, Arkansas, 1941-1942 by Alan Lomax, John W. Work, and Lewis Jones for a study jointly sponsored by the Library of Congress and Fisk University of Nashville, Tennessee.
- - Descriptive notes by the editor and texts (17 p.).
- - Description from audio disc recording, analog, 33 1/3 rpm; 12 in. first issued on LP in 1962.
- - Digital preservation master recorded from original master analog tape by the Library of Congress Recording Laboratory in 2015.
- - Original master for audio disc production for reissue of AFS L59: NEGRO BLUES AND HOLLERS (MASTER TAPE) 2 sound tape reels : analog, 15 ips, full track, mono. ; 10 in. RAA 27153, RAA 27154. MAVIS title no.: 162692-4; 162692-5-1; 162692-5-2
Medium
- 2 sound files : digital, WAV (44.1 Khz)
Repository
- Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540-4610 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.home
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2016655241
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- audio
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Contributor
- Archive of Folk Song (U.S.)
- Edwards, Honeyboy
- Fisk University
- House, Son
- Jones, Lewis Wade
- Library of Congress. Recording Laboratory
- Lomax, Alan
- Martin, Fiddlin' Joe
- Stearns, Marshall Winslow
- Work, John W. (John Wesley)