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Afro-American Blues & Game Songs
Afro-American Blues & Game Songs
Afro-American Blues & Game Songs
Genres: Country, Blues, Folk, International Music, Pop, Rock
 
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Originally issued in 1942 as the fourth title in an Alan Lomax-edited six-part Library of Congress series, this collection's title, Afro-American Blues and Game Songs, says it all. The blues portion of the program is highl...  more »

     
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All Artists: Afro-American Blues & Game Songs
Title: Afro-American Blues & Game Songs
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Label: Rounder Select
Original Release Date: 5/11/1999
Re-Release Date: 7/9/2002
Genres: Country, Blues, Folk, International Music, Pop, Rock
Styles: Classic Country, Traditional Blues, Traditional Folk, Europe, Continental Europe
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 712136151326

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Originally issued in 1942 as the fourth title in an Alan Lomax-edited six-part Library of Congress series, this collection's title, Afro-American Blues and Game Songs, says it all. The blues portion of the program is highlighted by very early recordings by Muddy Waters (cut a couple of years before young McKinley Morganfield set off for Chicago to write a chapter of his own in the history of 20th-century music) and Sonny Terry. Interspersed are field recordings of children's games and dances. As with all the titles in the Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture series, a superior booklet rounds out the package splendidly. --Steven Stolder

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"This is possibly the worst transfer of data into digital format that I have ever heard. I have a 30 year old copy of this album on vinyl that I carefully recorded in MP3 format. The quality of this home recording maintains the fidelity of the original recording infinitely better than this CD. I bought the CD hoping for a better digital format, not worse. I am sending back this opened and played CD to Amazon.com today. Let's see how they respond to a return that is based soley on the fact that it is an incredibly inferior product. One final note. The music of the original recording will make any effort you take to find one of the older vinyls well worth your effort."