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Afro-American Blues & Game Songs
Afro-American Blues & Game Songs
Genres: Country, Blues, Folk, International Music, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (24) - Disc #1
1. I Don't Mind the Weather
2. Diamond Joe
3. Joe the Grinder
4. Another Man Done Gone - Alan Lomax, Hall, Vera
5. Boll Weevil Blues
6. Two White Horses
7. Country Rag (East Texas Rag)
8. Shorty George
9. Blues
10. Country Blues
11. I Be's Troubled
12. Lost John
13. Fox Chase
14. All Hid?
15. Pullin' the Skiff
16. Old Uncle Rabbit
17. Sea Lion Woman
18. Ain't Gonna Ring No More
19. Shortenin' Bread
20. Poor Little Johnny
21. Go to Sleep
22. Rosey
23. Gon' Knock John Booker to the Low Ground
24. Run, Nigger, Run

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CD Details

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

Synopsis

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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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CD Reviews

Negro Work Songs & Calls [Rounder]

atlas750 | Farmington Hills, MI USA | 02/27/2004

(1 out of 5 stars)

"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."