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Table of Contents:

• John Henry (Virgil Perkins, vocal, kazoo and washboard ; Jack Sims, 12-string guitar)
• Grizzly bear : Negro prison camp worksong
• Blowing the train (Percy Randolph, harmonica)
• Six thousand miles from nowhere (Snooks Eaglin, vocal, guitar)
• Dark was the night (Blind Willie Johnson, vocal, guitar)
• Amasee : children's ring game song
• Spooky drums (Warren "Baby" Dodds, drums
• Black Jack Davy) (Mary Jo Davis, vocal)
• Drunken sailor : dulcimer medley
• Ellen Smith (Pete Steele, vocal, 5- string banjo)
• Run, run (Elizabeth Cotton, guitar)
• Mole in the ground (Bascom Lamar Lunsford, vocal, 5-string banjo)
• Rolling river : country dance : fiddle, banjo, guitar
• Allons danser Colinda (Cajun dance) (Ray Brule, vocal, accordion)
• Sourwood Mountain (Square dance tune) (Hobart Smith, piano)
• Diamond Joe (Cowboy song) (Cisco Houston, vocal, guitar)
• Siete Leguas (Corrido) (Peter Hurd, vocal, guitar)
• Matachines dance
• Moonlight song : Taos Indian serenade
• War dance song (Flathead Indians)

• Esta Navidad : Puerto Rican Christmas song (Vocal and instrumental)
• Aguinaldo cagueno : Puerto Rican song (Vocal and instrumental)
• Rocky road (Alabama Sacred Harp Singers : shape-note singing)
• If we never meet again (Virgin Island children)
• Inviting-in dance song (Alaskan Eskimos).

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Contributors:

Brule, Ray

Cotten, Elizabeth

Courlander, Harold, 1908-1996

Davis, Mary Jo

Dodds, Baby, 1898-1959

Eaglin, Snooks, 1936-2009

Houston, Cisco

Hurd, Peter, 1904-1984

Johnson, Blind Willie

Lunsford, Bascom Lamar

Perkins, Virgil

Randolph, Percy

Sims, Jack (Guitarist)

Smith, Hobart, 1897-1965

Steele, Pete, 1891-1985

Alabama Sacred Harp Singers

Languages:

English
Spanish

Language Notes:

Item content: English, Spanish
Librettos: English, Spanish
Accompanying materials: English

Related Series:

Ethnic Folkways library

Subjects:

Blues (Music)

Folk music — United States

Folk songs, English — United States

Folk music

Folk songs, English

United States

General Notes:

Accompanying notes by Charles Edward Smith laid in original container.
Recorded between 1928 and 1958.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file).

Audio Characteristics:

digital

Digital Characteristics:

audio file

Call Numbers:

Online Audio

OCLC Numbers:

698168258

Other Control Numbers:

sky231128908 (source: CaEvSKY)
71898 (source: VaAlASP)
[Unknown Type]: ASP71898/amso