Virginia And The Piedmont (Minstrelsy, Work Songs, And Blues)
( Rounder Records 2000 )Part of the Deep River of Song Series
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These field recordings tell the story of African-American musical development in Virginia, the first home of slaves in North America, and in the Piedmont, where free blacks and whites made music side by side. Minstrel tunes, banjo songs, spirituals, work songs, and blues take us from the Reconstruction Era into the twentieth century and from the work gang to the concert stage.
1. OLD DAN TUCKER (1:02) Golden Gate Quartet with Josh White
2. CORN-SHUCKING TIME (0:57) Jimmie Strothers
3. JAYBIRD (0:50) Jimmie Strothers
4. GEORGIA LAND (1:21) Jimmie Owens
5. I USED TO WORK ON A ’TRACTOR (1:22) Jimmie Strothers
6. WILD OX MOAN (2:13) Rollie Lee Johnson
7. BOLL WEEVIL (1:40) Willie Williams
8. PO’ FARMER (1:24) Lemuel Jones
9. FOX CHASE (2:17) Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
10. I’LL GO ON (0:50) Joe Lee
11. I FEEL THE SPIRIT MOVING (1:13) Michael Lewis and group
12. WE’RE ALMOST DOWN TO THE SHORE (2:19) Jimmie Strothers
13. THIS LAND OF GEORGIA (1:15) Joe Lee
14. CAN’T HIDE (2:00) Unidentified group
15. NOAH AND THE FLOOD(3:32) Norman Haskins
16. RUN, SINNER, RUN (2:35) Golden Gate Quartet with Josh White
17. TAKE THIS HAMMER (2:18) Jimmie Strothers
18. WALK DOWN, DEVILS (2:19) James Wilson and group
19. RAILROAD WRECK (1:25) Willie Williams
22. BITIN’ SPIDER (3:58) Willie Williams and group
20. JOHN HENRY (2:28) Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
21. TIN CAN ALLEY (0:55) Ezra Lewis
23. PICK ’EM UP (1:53) Albert Shepherd and group
24. PRISON BLUES (2:45) Robert Higgins
25. EVERY MAIL DAY (3:18) J. Kirby and group
26. WHEN I LIE DOWN LAST NIGHT (1:50) Blind Joe
27. WORRIED BLUES (2:28) Sonny Terry
28. GOING TO RICHMOND (5:54) Jimmie Strothers