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
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 8:35
AM
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....
np : ALICE COLTRANE -
Transfiguration
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