I'm not sure about the old LPs, but with the CDs, Volume 1 is an overview
of the series, Volume 12 is "Georgia Sea Islands" (and it's
fantastic!), and it's "Velvet Voices" - I think it's Volume 8,
but I don't have it handy - that has the Bright Light Quartet.
"Christian Automobile" is pretty fun, but I really like the
Bright Lights stuff that sounds just like velvety gospel but has lyrics
about pimping - the Saturday night/Sunday morning thing at its
finest. There's similar Lomax-compiled stuff on the "Sounds of
the South" CD box on Atlantic, which Moby totally pillaged for
"Play."
Rounder's got detailed info here:
http://www.rounder.com/rounder/artists/lomax_alan/sjs.htm
At 08:49 AM 4/11/2003 -0400, Matt Laferty wrote:
The whole
southern Journey series was put out by rounder records in the five
years. More will come out, I've heard that Lomax has thousands of
hours of the stuff. The prison work song in "O Brother"
was from Volume One (I think) of the Southern Journey Series. I had
to get em all. Isn't that one the one with "Christian
Automobile" "Witness for my Lord" and groups like the
Bright Light Quartet? Bessie Jones is probably the most
"famous" singer on that record. Lots of Gospel.
It's Rounder 1708 (i just looked...)
There's another in the series that is similar
called "Georgia Sea Islands", but the whole series is
phenomenal.
If you like the gospel, there's tons of gospel
quartets from the 20s to the 40s on the poor sounding, but rare as hell
Document Label out of Germany.
matt
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- Subject: (NZC) Alan Lomax field recordings
- you all are extremely knowledgeable so i'm hoping someone can give me a little info on alan lomax's field recordings (or possibly send me to a website). i've been going through my vinyl collection and recently found a record called THE EASTERN SHORES : SOUTHERN JOURNEY 8. It was put out by Prestige International in the early '60s. It's a collection of (and I'm quoting, so it's not politically correct) "american negro folk music'. i thought maybe the '8' in the title referred to a series number (the catalog number is 25008), but the notes on the sleeve don't indicated anything like that. does anyone know? if so, what else was issued? the recording is great....
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