track: A joke told by Tom Thomas of John Edwards and sprags


track: Interview with Tom Thomas and Gomer Williams about blacklegs

artist: Alan Lomax, Thomas, Gomer Williams

album: Treorchy II 12/53


track: Interview with Tom Thomas about miners' strikes

artist: Alan Lomax, Thomas, Unidentified man


track: Interview with Tom Thomas about ekeing out a living

artist: Thomas


track: Interview with Tom Thomas, Gomer Williams, and other miners about fear in the mines

artist: Thomas, Unidentified man, Gomer Williams


track: Interview with Tom Thomas about miner boys

artist: Alan Lomax, Thomas


track: Interview with Tom Thomas and Gomer Williams about cutting a low seam


track: Interview with Tom Thomas about Georgie the miner boy


track: Interview with Tom Thomas about the good old days

artist: Thomas, Unidentified men, Gomer Williams


track: Interview with Tom Thomas about mining pay and pea soup


track: Interview with Tom Thomas and Gomer Williams about W. B. Thomas, Benny Baish, and the old characters

artist: Thomas, Gomer Williams


track: Interview with Tom Thomas about entertainment, the church, and Ted Ebley's theater company


track: Interview with Tom Thomas about the old-time ministers, secular songs, and religious change in Treorchy


track: Interview with Tom Thomas about Ted Ebley's theater


track: Story of the Treorchy barber and Saturday night shavings (American Theology)


track: Story of the Treorchy barber and Saturday night shavings (Laughin' Or Cryin')


track: Story of the Treorchy barber and Saturday night shavings (Catchin' All Right)


track: Story of the two brothers and the Jew

artist: Gomer Williams


track: Story of the workers and the sardines


track: Two stories of Benny Baish


track: Story of two working men and stiff coal


track: A joke about a collier looking for work


track: Interview with Tom Thomas about an unidentified Welsh ballad


track: Unidentified Welsh ballad


track: The Little Golden Ring


track: Interview with Tom Thomas about miners' entertainment and broadside ballads


track: Yr Eneth Ga'dd Ei Gwrthod (The Rejected Maiden)


track: Interview with Tom Thomas about the broadsheet peddlers


track: Interview with David John Davies about Cosher Bailer Had An Engine

artist: David John Davies, Alan Lomax

album: Treorchy I 12/53


track: Cosher Bailey Had An Engine

artist: John Llewellyn Edwards, David John Goodridge, David Harris Jones, Harry Price, Thomas John Price, William Thomas


track: Cyfri'r Giefr (Counting The Goats)


track: Y Deryn Pur (The Gentle Dove)


track: In Excelsis Gloria


track: If I Was A Pretty Girl

artist: Bob Roberts, Unidentified men

album: Pin Mill 11/53


track: Stormy Weather, Boys

artist: Bob Roberts


track: Down In Alabama


track: Interview with Bob Roberts about Down In Alabama

artist: Alan Lomax, Bob Roberts


track: Fish And Chip Ship (Lower The Funnel)


track: Interview with Bob Roberts about the Fish And Chip Ship (Lower The Funnel)


track: Interview with Bob Roberts about The Smuggler, his smuggler relatives, and the hardships of working


track: The Poor Smuggler Boy


track: Interview with Bob Roberts about his family, his background, and smugglers


track: Interview with Eddie Sanger about his upcoming itinerary and his personal philosophy

artist: Alan Lomax, Eddie Sanger

album: Padstow 4/53-58


track: Eddie Sanger's ventriloquist act / Unidentified love song

artist: Eddie Sanger


track: Interview with Eddie Sanger about the generosity of the Cornish people and his thoughts on the hobby horse


track: Interview with Eddie Sanger about the hobby horse


track: Interview with Eddie Sanger about coming to Cornwall and the town's personality

artist: Alan Lomax, Eddie Sanger, Marjorie Sanger


track: Interview with Eddie Sanger about lodging-houses and his route to Cornwall


track: Interview with Eddie Sanger about his travels from Bridgewater to Minehead


track: Interview with Eddie Sanger about an experience at a conjuring show in Wigan


track: Interview with Eddie Sanger about his travels and public performances


track: Interview with Eddie Sanger about his travels and hardships


track: Interview with Marjorie Sanger about her travels

artist: Peter Kennedy, Alan Lomax, Marjorie Sanger


track: Biluzkeria maite dun batek

artist: Ignacio Eizmendi (Basarri), Unidentified men

album: Ondarroa 1/53


track: Mendiko umia naiz ta

artist: Simon Badiola, Unidentified men


track: Talk/ambience

artist: Peter Kennedy, Eddie Sanger


track: Zuek Getariarrok

artist: Unidentified men


track: Ni naiz emakume


track: Nere maitia jeiki


track: Udaberrian txoriak

artist: Simon Badiola, Imanol Lertxundi, Unidentified men


track: Ameriketan ez dakizute (II)

artist: Ignacio Eizmendi (Basarri)


track: Ameriketan ez dakizute (I)


track: Hiru Lo-Kanta: Neuk alboan / Aitita dala Tutulumendi / Neure umia (II)

artist: Unidentified woman


track: Unidentified song

artist: Imanol Lertxundi, Unidentified men


track: Hiru Lo-Kanta: Neuk alboan / Aitita dala Tutulumendi / Neure umia (I)


track: Koadrila batzen gara (II)

artist: Unidentified women


track: Koadrila batzen gara (I)


track: Ai, ama! Gaztian nintzanian dama


track: Afaldurikan bapo, bapo


track: Txalupa handixe (I)


track: Goizeko ordu bietan (fragment)


track: Interview with Harry Cox about The Yarmouth Fisherman's Song

artist: Harry Cox, Alan Lomax

album: Norfolk 10/53


track: The Yarmouth Fishermen's Song

artist: Harry Cox


track: Interview with Annie Cosgrave about It's Me Who Keeps The Fire Going / Unidentified song fragment

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified

album: Newtongrange 12/53


track: The Blantyre Explosion

artist: Bob Holland


track: It's Me Who Keeps The Fire Going

artist: Annie Cosgrave


track: Six Jolly Wee Miner Lads (Six Jolly Miners) (II)


track: Interview with Annie Cosgrave about Six Jolly Wee Miners

artist: Annie Cosgrave, Alan Lomax


track: Interview with Annie Cosgrave about The Gresford Disaster and her father


track: The Gresford Disaster


track: Interview with Annie Cosgrave about The Collier Lad, her children, and work in the mines


track: The Collier Lad


track: Six Jolly Wee Miner Lads (Six Jolly Miners) (I)

artist: Annie Cosgrave, Bob Holland


track: Interview with Annie Cosgrave about My Love Is But A Miner Lad and having a mining husband


track: My Love Is But A Miner Lad


track: Lovin' Hannah

artist: Jean Ritchie

album: Margaret Barry III 11/53


track: Commentary on Going To Mass Last Sunday by Jean Ritchie

artist: Alan Lomax, Jean Ritchie


track: Going To Mass Last Sunday

artist: Margaret Barry


track: My Lagan Love


track: Unidentified banjo breakdown


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about the unidentified banjo breakdown

artist: Margaret Barry, Alan Lomax


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about how music makes her feel


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about religion and spirits


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about her pregnancy and first child


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about an adventure in Lismore (continued)


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about an adventure in Lismore


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about her travels


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about her first public performance


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about her father joining a band


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about old-fashioned lodging houses


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about her father's second wife (continued)


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about her father's second wife


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about coming to London

album: Margaret Barry 7/58


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about an experience with an aggressive man (continued)


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about an experience with an aggressive man


track: Talk/ambience


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about the dangers of traveling


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about meeting men and her search for a perfect husband


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about her singing relatives


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about her grandfather and the instruments he made


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about photographs of her relatives


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about her grandmother


track: Unidentified diddling tune / Interview with Margaret Barry about a tune she composed in a dream


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about songs she composed in a dream


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about her dreams about music


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about courting and love


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about her courting days


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about confronting her father after returning from singing in Macroom


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about her early singing days in Macroom


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about her first public performance


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about her education and singing ambitions


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about lullabies and cradles / Unidentified lullaby


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about keening and diddling / Unidentified lullaby


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about playing a wake in Northern Ireland (continued) / Unidentified keen


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about playing a wake in Northern Ireland


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about singing at ceilis (continued)


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about singing at ceilis


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about travelling and singing (continued)


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about travelling and singing


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about her father's musical siblings


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about her grandmother (continued)


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about her grandmother


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about learning to play the banjo and her father's banjo playing


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about horseracing and gambling (continued)


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about horseracing and gambling


track: The Laird O Drum (beginning)

artist: Jeannie Robertson

album: Jeannie Robertson 5/58


track: The Laird O Drum (continued)


track: The Auld Beggarman


track: The Laird O Drum (false start)


track: Jimmie Raeburn (Jimmy Raeburn) (II)


track: My Father Was Hanged For Sheep Stealing


track: Willie's Fate


track: The Twa Brothers


track: Green Grows The Laurel


track: Lord Donald (continued)


track: Lord Donald (beginning)


track: With His Grey Beard Newly Shaven


track: Unidentified Sardinian religious song

artist: Wanda Sana

album: Wanda Sana 1957


track: Lamentu Por Filigio Mortu


track: Duru Duru (III)


track: Stornelli (III)


track: Canto Della Trexenta (II)


track: Serenade Of A Departing Soldier (II)


track: Serenade Of A Departing Soldier (I)


track: Unidentified Sardinian love song


track: Lamentu Por Maritu Morto


track: Ninna nanna (II)


track: Ninna nanna (fragment)


track: Canto Della Trexente (fragment) (I)


track: Canto Della Trexente (fragment) (II)


track: Canto Della Trexente (I)


track: Ballo Toudo (II)


track: Ballo Toudo (I)


track: Ninna nanna (I)


track: Introduction to Ballo Toudo by Wanda Sana


track: Introduction to ninna nanna by Wanda Sana


track: Interview with Wanda Sana about Desagio

artist: Alan Lomax, Wanda Sana


track: Casey Jones

artist: Ken Colyer, Unidentified

album: Great Yarmouth 1957


track: Midnight Special


track: Sawed-Off Pete

artist: Ken Colyer


track: Talk/ambience

artist: Ken Colyer, Alan Lomax


track: Ricky Rang Roo


artist: Ken Colyer, Unidentified man


track: Unidentified dance tune

artist: Jimmy (Ewan MacColl) Miller

album: Ewan MacColl 1957/58


track: Unidentified ballad


track: Spanish Ladies

artist: Alan Lomax, Jimmy (Ewan MacColl) Miller


track: Captain Ward And The Rainbow (Ward The Pirate)


track: Johnny Todd


track: Blow You Winds


track: Henry Martin


track: The Golden Vanity (The Merry Golden Tree)


track: The High Barbaree


track: The Amsterdam Maid (I'll Go No More A Roving)


track: One Two Three Four Five

artist: Unidentified boy


track: A Tisket A Tasket


track: Oh Dear, What Can The Matter Be?


track: Ask A Policeman


track: Ting-a-Ling


track: Rain, Rain Go Away


track: Rags And Bones


track: As I Went Down To Windsor


track: Join The British Army


track: Awky Duck


track: Christmas Rhyme


track: One, Two, Three Alairy


track: On The Croft


track: Flip Flop


track: Poor Mary Sat A Weeping


track: He's A Navvy


track: The Higher Up The Mountain


track: All That Shivers


track: All That Glitters


track: Rosalie

artist: Jimmy (Ewan MacColl) Miller, Peggy Seeger


track: Paddy Knight


track: The Lag's Song


track: The Space Song

artist: Peggy Seeger


track: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face


track: Interview with Davie Stewart about courtship, love, and sex

artist: Alan Lomax, Davie Stewart

album: Davie Stewart 1957


track: Interview with Davie Stewart about his travels and his taste for Irish music


track: Interview with Davie Stewart about his father, childhood, farmer-traveller relations, and the first song he learned


track: Interview with Davie Stewart about being disciplined by his father


track: Interview with Davie Stewart about his upbringing, childhood, ancestors, and family


track: Interview with Davie Stewart about travelling in Ireland and fighting


track: Interview with Davie Stewart about travelling in Ireland, playing the fairs, and two lost ponies


track: Interview with Davie Stewart about playing an all-night hooley in Ireland


track: Interview with Davie Stewart about meeting his wife and settling down


track: Interview with Davie Stewart about The Roving Tinker


track: The Roving Tinker

artist: Davie Stewart


track: Dark-Eyed Lover


track: Interview with Davie Stewart about Dark-Eyed Lover


track: The Laird Of Dentidoonbye


track: Maggie The Milkmaid


track: Jamie Raeburn (Jimmie Raeburn / Jimmy Raeburn)


track: Interview with Davie Stewart about Maggie The Milkmaid


track: Drumdelgie


track: Interview with Davie Stewart about traveller singing style / Bonny Udny


track: Tramps And Hawkers


track: McGinty's Meal And Ale


track: The Dying Ploughboy


track: Bogie's Bonny Belle


track: The Dowie Dens O Yarrow


track: The Tarves Rant


track: Interview with Davie Stewart about traveller camping methods

artist: Shirley Collins, Davie Stewart


track: The Highland Tinker


track: Interview with Davie Stewart about bawdy songs


track: Interview with Davie Stewart about an Irish cattle drover, the song I'm Drunk And Seldom Sober, and Irish banjo player Teddy Fury


track: Interview with Davie Stewart about diddling / Miss McLeod's Reel / The Lonely Shepherd's Daughter


track: Interview with Davie Stewart about farm labor, bothy life, and the differences between Irish and Scots music


track: Interview with Davie Stewart about cant, the Traveller language

artist: Alan Lomax, Anna Lomax, Davie Stewart


track: Berker story (continued)


track: Berker story (beginning)


track: Discussion between Davie Stewart, Alan Lomax, and Anna Lomax about berkers


track: Story of the piper and the fairies


track: Nicky Tams


track: The Glendaruel Highlanders


track: The Hash O Bennagoak


track: The Merchant's Son


track: Auld Jock Bruce O The Fornet


track: Mormond Braes


track: The Day We Went To Rothesay-O


track: MacPherson's Rant


track: That's All Right, Honey

artist: Alan Lomax

album: Alan Lomax as performer I


track: Almost Done (On A Monday)


track: Introduction to That's All Right, Honey


track: Old Blue


track: Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet?


track: Duncan And Brady


track: Introduction to Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet?


track: Railroad Bill


track: Cuando Canto d'Improviso (When I Suddenly Sing)

artist: Violeta Parra

album: Violeta Parra 1956


track: Maire Yo Le Digo Adios (Verso Por Despedida)


track: Ay, Mi Palomo


track: La Vida Ya Que Se


track: Willie's Rare

artist: Alex McEwen, Rory McEwen

album: Rory and Alex McEwan 1956


track: The Craw Killed The Pussie-O


track: The Lum Hat Wantin A Croon


track: Interview with A. H. Rasmussen about Roll The Cotton Down

artist: Alan Lomax, Albert Henry (A. H.) Rasmussen

album: London 4/55


track: Maximillian's Daughter (Santy Anna)

artist: Albert Henry (A. H.) Rasmussen


track: Roll The Cotton Down


track: Johnny Come Down To Hilo (beginning)


track: Johnny Come Down To Hilo (continued) / Introduction to Roll The Cotton Down


track: Shenandoah


track: Blow The Man Down (II)


track: Interview with A. H. Rasmussen about chantey tempo and its relation to work


track: The Amsterdam Maid (I'll Go No More A Roving)


track: Blow The Man Down (I)


track: Commentary on chanties by A. H. Rasmussen / The Amsterdam Maid (I'll Go No More A Roving) (fragment)


track: Commentary on Blow The Man Down by A. H. Rasmussen


track: Hey Lally Lally Lo (Hey Lolly Lolly Lo) (II)

album: Alan Lomax as performer II


track: Huree Huro (The Tiree Love Song)

artist: Shirley Collins, Alan Lomax


track: Hey Lally Lally Lo (Hey Lolly Lolly Lo) (I)

artist: Alan Lomax, Anna Lomax


track: Hey Lally Lally Lo (Hey Lolly Lolly Lo) (false start) (III)


track: The Time Draws Near (My Dearest Dear)

artist: Shirley Collins


track: Hey Lally Lally Lo (Hey Lolly Lolly Lo) (false start) (II)

artist: Alan Lomax, Anna Lomax, Elizabeth Lomax, Herbert Sturz


track: Hey Lally Lally Lo (Hey Lolly Lolly Lo) (false start) (I)


track: Unidentified instrumental (fragment)


track: Rothsay-O

artist: Jim Bray, Sandy Brown, Shirley Collins, Alan Lomax, Jimmy (Ewan MacColl) Miller, Peggy Seeger

album: Alan Lomax and the Ramblers


track: Champion At Keeping Them Rolling

artist: Jim Bray, Sandy Brown, Alan Lomax, Jimmy (Ewan MacColl) Miller


track: Wished I Was In Heaven Sitting Down (I)

artist: Fred McDowell

album: Como III 9/59


track: Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning (I)


track: Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning (II)


track: Wished I Was In Heaven Sitting Down (false start)


track: Soon One Morning


track: I Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind On Jesus)


track: Move Up

artist: Ed McNeill, Unidentified men


track: You Done Told Everybody In The Neighborhood


track: Lord Have Mercy


track: Motherless Children

artist: Felix Dukes, Fred McDowell


track: 61 Highway Blues


track: Worried Mind Blues


track: Joe Turner

artist: Bob Pratcher, Miles Pratcher

album: Como II 9/59


track: If It's All Night Long


track: Gravel Road Blues

artist: Fanny Davis, Fred McDowell, Miles Pratcher


track: The Sun Rose This Morning (Going Down to the River)


track: Shake 'Em On Down


track: Wished I Was In Heaven Sitting Down

artist: Denise Gardner, Mattie Gardner, Fred McDowell, Lucille Powell, Ida Mae Towns

album: Como I 9/59


track: Mary Mack

artist: Mattie Gardner, Jessie Lee Pratcher, Ida Mae Towns


track: Little Sally Walker


track: I'm Bound To Get To Heaven At Last


track: Green Sally Up


track: Fred McDowell's Blues (Going Down South)


track: Interview with Fred McDowell about learning guitar

artist: Alan Lomax, Fred McDowell


track: Drop Down Mama

artist: Fred McDowell, Miles Pratcher


track: When You Get Home, Please Write Me A Few Of Your Lines


track: I'm Gonna Live Anyhow Till I Die


track: Old Hen Cackle, Run Get The Egg


track: Bill Bailey


track: Buttermilk


track: Joe Turner


track: If It's All Night Long


track: Hen Duck

artist: Elisha Franklin, Viola James, William Major James, Ed Young, Jr. Young, Sr. Young


track: Jim And John (III)

artist: Ed Young, Jr. Young, Sr. Young


track: Church, I Know We Got Another Building


track: On That Rock


track: Jim And John (II)


track: Oree (III)


track: Chevrolet


track: Sitting On Top Of The World


track: Interview with Ed Young and Lonnie Young, Sr. about Jim and John

artist: Shirley Collins, Ed Young, Sr. Young


track: Jim And John (I)


track: Oree (II)


track: Oree (I)


track: I Won't Marry At All (fragment)

artist: Roy Everett Blevins, Spencer Moore

album: Chilhowie 9/59


track: Talk/ambience


track: Interview with Spencer Moore about his parody of Sixteen Tons

artist: Alan Lomax, Spencer Moore


track: Sixteen Tons parody

artist: Spencer Moore


track: The Girl I Left Behind


track: The Lawson Murder


track: Interview with Spencer Moore about Jimmy Sutton


track: Jimmy Sutton (II)


track: Jimmy Sutton (I)


track: Three Nights Drunk

artist: Horton Barker


track: A Rich Irish Lady


track: Interview with Hobart Smith about learning to play and his repertoire

artist: Alan Lomax, Hobart Smith

album: Bluefield II 8/59


track: Sourwood Mountain

artist: Hobart Smith


track: Old Joe Clark


track: Billy In The Lowground


track: Railroad Bill


track: Brownskin Blues


track: Parson Burrs (Will Aggravate Your Soul)


track: Interview with Hobart Smith on Parson Burrs


track: The Little Schoolboy (Two Brothers)


track: Interview with Texas Gladden, Hobart Smith, and Preston Smith about The Little Schoolboy

artist: Shirley Collins, Texas Gladden, Alan Lomax, Hobart Smith, Preston Smith


track: Soldier, Soldier


track: Interview with Texas Gladden and Hobart Smith about Soldier, Soldier

artist: Texas Gladden, Hobart Smith


track: Claude Allen


track: Interview with Texas Gladden and Hobart Smith about Claude Allen

artist: Shirley Collins, Texas Gladden, Hobart Smith


track: See That My Grave Is Kept Clean


track: Graveyard Blues


track: Black Annie


track: Arkansas Traveler


track: Banging Breakdown


track: Brisk Young Soldier

artist: Texas Gladden


track: Poor Ellen Smith


track: Cold Mountains


track: Hawkins County Jail (II)

album: Bluefield I 8/59


track: Interview with Hobart Smith about Hawkins County Jail


track: Hawkins County Jail (I)


track: Three Little Babes


track: Interview with Texas Gladden about Three Little Babes

artist: Texas Gladden, Alan Lomax


track: Hick's Farewell


track: Interview with Texas Gladden about how many songs she knows and her health

artist: Shirley Collins, Texas Gladden


track: Interview with Texas Gladden about Hick's Farewell


track: Interview with Texas Gladden about I Never Will Marry


track: I Never Will Marry (II)


track: I Never Will Marry (I)


track: Dark Scenes Of Winter


track: Interview with Texas Gladden about Dark Scenes Of Winter


track: Fly Around My Blue Eyed Gal


track: Salty Dog Blues

artist: Hobart Smith, Preston Smith


track: John Brown (Dreamt The Devil Was Dead)


track: I'm Going Down The Road Feeling Bad


track: Drunken Hiccups


track: Jim And Me

artist: Texas Gladden, Hobart Smith, Preston Smith


track: When The Stars Begin To Fall


track: Lonely Tombs


track: Welcome by Preston Smith

artist: Alan Lomax, Preston Smith


track: Interview with Texas Gladden and Hobart Smith about Peg And Awl

artist: Texas Gladden, Alan Lomax, Hobart Smith


track: Interview with Texas Gladden and Hobart Smith about Railroad Bill


track: Railroad Bill


track: Dark Blue Eyes

artist: Texas Gladden, Preston Smith


track: Interview with Texas Gladden about Dark Blue Eyes

artist: Texas Gladden, Alan Lomax, Preston Smith


track: Prayer by I. D. Back

artist: I. D. Back

album: Blackey 9/59


track: Salvation, Oh The Name I Love (continued)

artist: I. D. Back, Unidentified


track: A joke told by Texas Gladden


track: Salvation, Oh The Name I Love


track: Preaching / testimony by I. D. Back


track: Poor Pilgrim Of Sorrow


track: Preaching by I. D. Back


track: Prayer by D. N. Asher

artist: D. N. Asher


track: The Day Is Past And Gone

artist: Jack Brown, Unidentified


track: Sermon (Willing Soldiers for the Lord)


track: Sweet Rivers Of Redeeming Love


track: When Jesus Christ Was Here Below (74)


track: Come With Me To The Old Churchyard (28)

artist: Elmer Dickson, Mrs. Elmer Dickson, Unidentified


track: Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah (464)

artist: Ike Caudill, Unidentified


track: Unidentified lining hymn


track: WEUP radio broadcast by Daddy Cool

artist: Daddy Cool

album: Alabama in transit 9/59


track: WROS Old Time Religious Hour radio broadcast (IV)

artist: Unidentified preacher


track: WROS Old Time Religious Hour radio broadcast (II)


track: WROS Old Time Religious Hour radio broadcast (III)


track: WROS Old Time Religious Hour radio broadcast (I)

artist: Unidentified preacher, Unidentified woman


track: Commentary by Alan Lomax and Shirley Collins (II)

artist: Shirley Collins, Alan Lomax


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about a football song and a song about a racehorse she composed

artist: Margaret Barry

album: Margaret Barry 7/58


track: Commentary by Alan Lomax and Shirley Collins (I)


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about making a living singing

artist: Margaret Barry, Shirley Collins, Alan Lomax


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about a journal she kept and music dying out

artist: Margaret Barry, Alan Lomax


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about dates and ages


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about her St. Patrick's Day television appearance (continued) (IV)


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about her St. Patrick's Day television appearance (conclusion)


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about her St. Patrick's Day television appearance (continued) (III)


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about her St. Patrick's Day television appearance (continued) (II)


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about her St. Patrick's Day television appearance (continued) (I)


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about her St. Patrick's Day television appearance


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about her pub performances and a St. Patrick's Day television appearance


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about her meeting Michael Gorman and his help arranging performances for her


track: Interview with Margaret Barry about various people with whom she lived in a tenement and her banjo-playing uncle


track: Huntington (, 193)

artist: Jim Ayres, Unidentified

album: Fyffe 9/59


track: Doddridge (, 263)


track: Morgan (, 304)

artist: Sally Gilman, Unidentified


track: Sacred Mount (, 456)


track: Announcement at Sacred Harp Convention (IV)

artist: Sally Gilman


track: Heavenly Rest (, 403)

artist: Ray Hughes, Unidentified


track: Closing prayer at Sacred Harp Convention

artist: Carl Hughes


track: Protection (, 402)

artist: Laura Stricken, Unidentified


track: Parting Hand (, 62) / Hallelujah (, 146) / Amazing Grace (New Britain (, 45)

artist: Unidentified


track: Closing speech at Sacred Harp Convention

artist: Marcus Cagle


track: The Family Bible (, 165)

artist: R. D. Lassiter, Unidentified


track: Arkansas (, 271)

artist: Dr. M. O. Slaughter, Unidentified


track: Never Turn Back (, 378)


track: New Prospect (fragment) (words only) (, 390)

artist: Unidentified, Lonnie West


track: The Marriage In The Sky (, 438)

artist: Lee Phillips, Unidentified


track: The Better Land (, 454)


track: New Prospect (fragment) (, 390)


track: Victoria (, 290)


track: Bishop (, 420)

artist: Bob Steifel, Unidentified


track: Mount Zion (, 220)


track: Milford (, 273)

artist: Mr. Holly, Unidentified


track: Bear Creek (, 269)


track: Announcement at Sacred Harp Convention (X)


track: Funeral Anthem (words only)

artist: Joyce Smith (Walton), Unidentified


track: Funeral Anthem (solfeggio) (, 320)


track: Send A Blessing (, 369)


track: Testimony at Sacred Harp Convention

artist: Joyce Smith (Walton)


track: The Church's Desolation (, 89) (partial)

artist: Max Golden, Unidentified


track: Easter Anthem (, 236)

artist: Lloyd Redding, Unidentified


track: Morgan (, 304)

artist: Unidentified, Arlan Webb


track: New Bethel (, 395)

artist: Foy Frederick, Unidentified


track: Christ Our Song (, 386)


track: New Jordan (, 442)

artist: Unidentified, Mrs. Wilburn


track: The Promised Land (, 128)


track: The Bower Of Prayer (, 100)


track: Fredericksburg (, 389)

artist: J. H. Carter, Unidentified


track: Symphony (, 151)


track: Calvary (, 300)

artist: Unidentified, Sylvia Wooten


track: Praise God (, 328)

artist: Unidentified, J. W. Webb


track: Blooming Youth (, 176)


track: I Would See Jesus (, 75)

artist: Mrs. Allen, Unidentified


track: Louisiana (, 207)

artist: Otis Parker, Unidentified


track: The Church's Desolation (, 89)


track: Protection (, 402)

artist: William (Uncle Will) Laminack, Unidentified


track: Melancholy Day (, 419)


track: Announcement at Sacred Harp Convention (III)

artist: Unidentified man


track: The Morning Trumpet (, 85)

artist: J. Edge, Unidentified


track: Canaan's Land (, 101)


track: Confidence (, 270)

artist: Mrs. Botts, Unidentified


track: Weeping Sinners (, 108)


track: Montgomery (, 189)

artist: J. H. Lambert, Unidentified


track: Invitation (, 327)


track: David's Lamentation (, 268)

artist: Unidentified


track: New Prospect (, 390)


track: The Child Of Grace (, 77)

artist: Unidentified, Mary Wood


track: Alan Lomax's request for David's Lamentation (, 268)

artist: Alan Lomax


track: Weeping Mary (, 408)


track: Christmas Anthem (, 225)


track: Invocation (, 131)


track: New Britain (, 45)

artist: Martin Blackman, Unidentified


track: Cussetta (, 73)


track: Prayer for recess at Sacred Harp Convention

artist: Carl Hughes


track: Memorial lesson at Sacred Harp Convention


track: Providence (, 298)

artist: Bob Leith, Unidentified


track: Adoration (, 138)

artist: Unidentified, Mrs. Woody Walker


track: North Port (, 324)

artist: B. W. Ashley, Unidentified


track: Minister's Farewell (, 69)


track: Westford (, 280)


track: Claremount (, 245)

artist: Homer Murphy, Unidentified


track: Mount Pleasant (, 218)

artist: B. F. Ship, Unidentified


track: Norwich (, 362)


track: Manchester (, 392)

artist: John Alexander, Unidentified


track: Soldier Of The Cross (, 325)


track: The Grieved Soul (, 448)

artist: Virginia Dell Shrader, Unidentified


track: Amsterdam (, 84)


track: Melancholy Day (, 419)

artist: M. W. Light, Unidentified


track: Homeward Bound (, 373)

artist: C. C. Matthews, Unidentified


track: Return Again (, 335)


track: Wondrous Love (, 159)

artist: Mrs. King Roberts, Unidentified


track: Masonic Ode (, 228)

artist: Laurie Denson, Unidentified


track: Travelling On (, 208)

artist: Maud Quinn, Unidentified


track: Sinner's Friend (, 132)


track: Windham (, 38)

artist: W. W. Kidd, Unidentified


track: Victoria (, 290)

artist: Velma Johnson, Unidentified


track: Antioch (, 277)


track: The Last Words Of Copernicus (, 112)


track: Loving Jesus (, 361)

artist: Unidentified, Enis Wall


track: Notes Almost Divine (, 396)

artist: A. L. Parker, Unidentified


track: Crantville (, 423)


track: Arbacoochee (, 430)


track: Heavenly Vision (, 250)

artist: Bill Mathews, Unidentified


track: Consecration (, 448)

artist: Jim Ayres, Unidentified


track: Baptismal Anthem (, 232)


track: Sardis (, 460)

artist: Valerie Jo McCullers, Unidentified


track: Sabbath Morning (, 283)

artist: Mary Johnson, Unidentified


track: Morning Prayer (, 411)


track: Ecstasy (, 106)

artist: Mr. Boyd, Unidentified


track: Cussetta (, 73)


track: Greenwich (, 183)

artist: Dr. M. O. Slaughter, Unidentified


track: Announcement at Sacred Harp Convention (II)

artist: Unidentified man


track: Invitation (, 327)


track: Announcement at Sacred Harp Convention (I)


track: Train Hundred And Eleven

artist: Jim Dillon, Glenn Mainer, Joseph Emmett (J. E.) Mainer, Floyd Overcash

album: Concord 10/59


track: Glenn's Chimes

artist: Jim Dillon, Carolyn Mainer Helmes, Glenn Mainer, Joseph Emmett (J. E.) Mainer, Mary Mainer, Floyd Overcash


track: Train Hundred And Eleven (introduction / false start)

artist: Joseph Emmett (J. E.) Mainer


track: Whoa Mule


track: Columbus Stockade (II)


track: Columbus Stockade (I)


track: Three Nights Drunk

artist: Jim Dillon, Glenn Mainer, Joseph Emmett (J. E.) Mainer, Mary Mainer, Floyd Overcash


track: Johnson's Old Grey Mule (II)


track: Columbus Stockade (false start)


track: Johnson's Old Grey Mule (I)


track: Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed

artist: Annie Mae McDowell, Fred McDowell


track: I Been Drinkin' Water Out Of A Hollow Log

artist: Fred McDowell


track: Worried Mind Blues


track: What's The Matter Now?


track: Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning


track: I Want Jesus To Walk With Me (IV)

artist: Fred McDowell, James Shorter


track: I Want Jesus To Walk With Me (III)


track: I Want Jesus To Walk With Me (II)


track: I Want Jesus To Walk With Me (I)


track: I Want Jesus To Walk With Me (false start)


track: My Mother Died And Left Me


track: Freight Train Blues


track: Blues (You're Gonna Be Sorry)

artist: Fanny Davis, Fred McDowell, Miles Pratcher


track: Good Morning Little Schoolgirl


track: Rolled And Tumbled

artist: Rosalie Hill


track: When The Train Comes Along

artist: Sidney Hemphill Carter, Rosalie Hill, Fred McDowell


track: Wished I Was In Heaven Sitting Down (II)


track: John Henry (continued)

artist: James Lindsey, Dale Stoneman, Glen Stoneman

album: Hillsville I 8/59


track: Lonesome Dove

artist: Norman Edmonds, Paul Edmonds, Rufus Quesinberry


track: Silly Bill


track: Leather Breeches

artist: Cullen Galyen, Dale Stoneman, Glen Stoneman


track: Greasy String


track: Salt River


track: Breaking Up Christmas


track: Sally Anne


track: Bonaparte's Retreat

artist: Norman Edmonds


track: Interview with Norman Edmonds about Bonaparte's Retreat

artist: Shirley Collins, Norman Edmonds, Alan Lomax


track: Interview with Norman Edmonds about tunings

artist: Shirley Collins, Norman Edmonds


track: Walking In The Parlor


track: Interview with Norman Edmonds about his playing

artist: Norman Edmonds, Alan Lomax


track: Cripple Creek

artist: George Stoneman


track: Interview with George Stoneman about banjo technique (with fragments of Sally Anne and Cripple Creek)

artist: Shirley Collins, George Stoneman


track: Interview with George Stoneman about banjo styles

artist: Shirley Collins, Alan Lomax, George Stoneman


track: Let Me Ride

artist: Viola James, Unidentified

album: Harmontown 9/59


track: Soon One Morning (When Death Come Creeping My Room)

artist: Unidentified


track: All Of My Appointed Time / I'm Gonna Wait Till My Change Shall Come

artist: Unidentified man


track: Unidentified song fragment


track: When Malindy Sings

artist: Unidentified woman


track: Let My Last Day Be My Best


track: I'm Going Home To Live With Jesus

artist: Viola James


track: Running For Jesus


track: Wonder What Tomorrow Gonna Bring


track: Since I Laid My Burden Down

artist: Unidentified women


track: Down In Arkansas (continued)

artist: Almeda Riddle

album: Greers Ferry 10/59


track: Down In Arkansas


track: Interview with Almeda Riddle about Down In Arkansas (II)

artist: Alan Lomax, Almeda Riddle


track: Texas Rangers


track: Interview with Almeda Riddle about Down In Arkansas (I)


track: Alan Bain (first two verses)


track: Alan Bain (conclusion)


track: Alan Bain (beginning)


track: Alan Bain (continued)


track: Poor Wayfaring Stranger


track: The Lonesome Dove


track: Interview with Almeda Riddle about Poor Wayfaring Stranger


track: Interview with Almeda Riddle about The Lonesome Dove


track: Interview with Almeda Riddle about The Titanic


track: The Titanic


track: The House Carpenter (last two stanzas twice)


track: The House Carpenter


track: Interview with Almeda Riddle about Rainbow 'Mid The Willows (2)


track: Rainbow 'Mid The Willows


track: Rainbow 'Mid The Willows (last verse)


track: Interview with Almeda Riddle about Rainbow 'Mid The Willows (1)


track: The Merry Golden Tree (continued)


track: Interview with Almeda Riddle about The Merry Golden Tree


track: The Merry Golden Tree


track: The Hangman's Tree (Gallows Pole) (continued)


track: Talk/ambience


track: The Hangman's Tree (Gallows Pole)


track: Interview with Almeda Riddle on The Hangman's Tree (Gallows Pole) (II)


track: My Little Rooster


track: Interview with Almeda Riddle about The Hangman's Tree (Gallows Pole) (I)


track: Green Gravel


track: Interview with Almeda Riddle about Nishi Had A Mama


track: Nishi Had A Mama (first verse)


track: Interview with Almeda Riddle about Chick-a-la-li-o and her family


track: Nishi Had A Mama


track: Chick-a-la-li-o


track: Go Tell Aunt Nancy


track: Interview with Almeda Riddle about Go Tell Aunt Nancy


track: Mama Buy Me A China Doll


track: Bury Me Beneath The Willow


track: Froggie Went A Courting


track: Interview with Almeda Riddle about Froggie Went A Courting


track: The Merry Golden Tree (fragment)


track: Interview with Almeda Riddle about The Merry Golden Tree


track: Jesse James (fragment)


track: Interview with Almeda Riddle about The House Carpenter and her family


track: The House Carpenter


track: Grey Eagle

artist: Bob Carpenter, Charles (Uncle Charlie) Higgins

album: Galax 8/59


track: Grey Eagle (fragment)


track: Fox Chase

artist: Bob Carpenter, Wade Ward


track: Interview with Wade Ward, Mrs. Wade Ward, Charlie Higgins, and Bob Carpenter about Wade's barking ability

artist: Bob Carpenter, Shirley Collins, Charles (Uncle Charlie) Higgins, Alan Lomax, Mrs. Wade Ward, Wade Ward


track: Train On The Island (John Henry)

artist: Wade Ward


track: Interview with Wade Ward, Mrs. Wade Ward, Charlie Higgins, and Bob Carpenter about the fox chase


track: Interview with Wade Ward, Mrs. Wade Ward, Charlie Higgins, and Bob Carpenter about Reuben Train and Ruby


track: Molly Put The Kettle On


track: Interview with Wade Ward and Charlie Higgins about tea

artist: Shirley Collins, Charles (Uncle Charlie) Higgins, Alan Lomax, Wade Ward


track: Interview with Wade Ward and Charlie Higgins about the raincrow

artist: Shirley Collins, Charles (Uncle Charlie) Higgins, Wade Ward


track: Big Ball In Brooklyn

artist: Bob Carpenter


track: Wildwood Flower


track: Unidentified dance tune (II) (version 2)


track: Blackberry Blossom


track: East Tennesee Blues


track: Talk/ambience


track: Old Joe Clark (III)


track: Katie Hill


track: Chilly Winds (I)


track: June Apple

artist: Bob Carpenter, Charles (Uncle Charlie) Higgins, Wade Ward


track: Backstep Cindy


track: Interview with Wade Ward and Charlie Higgins about June Apple

artist: Charles (Uncle Charlie) Higgins, Alan Lomax, Wade Ward


track: Interview with Wade Ward, Charlie Higgins, and Bob Carpenter about Sally Anne

artist: Bob Carpenter, Charles (Uncle Charlie) Higgins, Alan Lomax, Wade Ward


track: Sally Anne


track: Unidentified dance tune (II) (version 1)


track: Interview with Wade Ward, Charlie Higgins, and Bob Carpenter about Piney Woods Gal


track: Piney Woods Gal


track: Old Joe Clark (II)


track: Old Joe Clark (I)

artist: Bob Carpenter, Cullen Galyen, Wade Ward


track: Interview with Wade Ward and Charlie Higgins about Uncle Joe


track: Uncle Joe


track: Interview with Wade Ward and Charlie Higgins about Old Joe Clark


track: Unidentified dance tune (I)

artist: Charles (Uncle Charlie) Higgins, Dale Poe, Wade Ward


track: Don't Let Your Deal Go Down


track: Walking In My Sleep


track: Uncle Charlie's Breakdown (continued)


track: Talk/ambience

artist: Charles (Uncle Charlie) Higgins, Wade Ward


track: Uncle Charlie's Breakdown


track: Willow Garden


track: Cripple Creek


track: Interview with Wade Ward and Charlie Higgins about their playing


track: Little Maggie


track: Eternal Home (, 336)

artist: Valerie Jo McCullers, Unidentified


track: Northfield (, 155)

artist: Eugene Dawson, Unidentified


track: Sherburne (, 186)


track: Fleeting Days (, 348)

artist: Mrs. Tom Hight, Unidentified


track: Oxford (, 306)


track: Announcement at Sacred Harp Convention (IX)

artist: Eugene Dawson


track: Closing prayer at Sacred Harp Convention

artist: Carl Hughes


track: Present Joys (, 318) (fragment)

artist: Unidentified


track: I'm On My Journey Home (, 345)


track: Present Joys (, 318)

artist: J. A. Pruitt, Unidentified


track: Lover Of The Lord (, 124)


track: Newburgh (, 182)

artist: Reba Dell Lacey, Unidentified


track: Milford (, 273)


track: New Harmony (, 406)

artist: H. A. Bertram, Unidentified


track: Sharpsburg (, 39)


track: Amsterdam (, 84)

artist: Sue Holly, Unidentified


track: Panting For Heaven (, 384)

artist: Clarence Oliver, Unidentified


track: Dull Care (, 98)


track: Eternal Home (, 336)

artist: Mrs. Cleland Cobb, Unidentified


track: Harmony (, 172)


track: Eternal Day (, 383)

artist: Phil Taylor, Unidentified


track: Stafford (, 78)


track: Jasper (, 426)

artist: Willie Mae Driscoll, Unidentified


track: Sardinia (, 296)

artist: Jessie Dryden, Unidentified


track: Montgomery (, 189)

artist: Rosie Hughes, Unidentified


track: Northfield (, 155)


track: New Jerusalem (, 299)

artist: Unidentified, Butch White


track: Babel's Streams (, 126)


track: Jordan (, 439)

artist: Unidentified, Mrs. Webb


track: The Enquirer (, 74)

artist: J. A. Steifel, Unidentified


track: New Topia (, 215)

artist: N. J. Brothers, Unidentified


track: Calvary (, 300)


track: Sardis (, 460)

artist: R. H. Burnham, Unidentified


track: Traveling On (, 208)


track: Morning Sun (, 436)

artist: Willie Mae Latham, Unidentified


track: Announcement at Sacred Harp Convention (VIII)

artist: Unidentified man


track: New Jordan (, 442)


track: Sherburne (, 186)

artist: A. A. Blocker, Unidentified


track: Florida (, 203) (fragment)


track: Love The Lord (, 375) (fragment)

artist: Unidentified


track: Mission (, 204)

artist: William (Uncle Will) Laminack, Unidentified


track: Bear Creek (, 269)


track: The Christian's Nightly Song (, 416)

artist: Mrs. Foy Frederick, Unidentified


track: Never Turn Back (, 378)

artist: Unidentified, W. A. Wendham


track: Alabama (, 196)


track: Announcement at Sacred Harp Convention (VII)

artist: William (Uncle Will) Laminack


track: Struggle On (, 400)

artist: Ellie McDowell, Unidentified


track: Praise God (, 328)


track: Save, Lord, Or We Perish (, 224)

artist: Whitt Denson, Unidentified


track: Christian's Delight (, 429)

artist: Lonnie Odum, Unidentified


track: World Unknown (, 428)


track: Anthem of the Savior (, 355)

artist: Irene Parker, Unidentified


track: Announcement at Sacred Harp Convention (VI)


track: Arbacoochee (, 430)


track: Mount Zion (, 220)

artist: Mr. M. O. Kelly, Unidentified


track: Soar Away (, 455)

artist: Unidentified, Unidentified woman


track: Cross Of Christ (, 123)


track: A Cross For Me (, 349)

artist: Mrs. Leslie Crowden, Unidentified


track: Fellowship (, 330)


track: Burdette (, 422)

artist: Bud McGraw, Unidentified


track: New Hope (, 316)


track: Business meeting and elections at Sacred Harp Convention


track: Hallelujah (, 146)

artist: Buford King, Unidentified


track: The Marcellas (, 405)


track: Delight (, 216)

artist: Jessie McCullers, Unidentified


track: The Fountain (, 397)


track: Interview with Mississippi hitchhiker (II)

artist: Shirley Collins, Alan Lomax, Unidentified man

album: Mississippi in transit 9/59


track: Interview with Mississippi hitchhiker (I)


track: The Whole World In His Hands

album: Memphis IV 10/59


track: I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray

artist: Reverend R. C. Crenshaw, Unidentified


track: Steal Away

artist: Unidentified, Unidentified man


track: Unidentified lining hymn


track: Introduction to Steal Away


track: Collection speech (continued)


track: Preaching / Unidentified lining hymn


track: Collection speech / Unidentified lining hymn

artist: Reverend R. C. Crenshaw, Unidentified, Unidentified man


track: Free At Last (Give Me Wings, I'll Fly Away)

artist: Reverend R. C. Crenshaw, Mr. A. Dawson, Professor Fleming, Unidentified


track: Sermon: Forgetting the Past / I Love the Lord, He Hears My Cry


track: Get Right Church And Let's Go Home


track: What A Fellowship

artist: Mr. A. Dawson, Sadie Parks, Unidentified


track: Vacation In Heaven

artist: Mr. A. Dawson, Professor Fleming, Unidentified woman


track: Did You Ever See A Man Like Jesus

artist: Mr. A. Dawson, Professor Fleming, Unidentified, Unidentified woman


track: Sing Till The Power Of The Lord Come Down

artist: Mr. A. Dawson, Professor Fleming, Unidentified


track: Prayer by Reverend Kelly

artist: Mr. A. Dawson, Reverend Kelly, Unidentified


track: Announcements at the New Browns Chapel

artist: Unidentified woman


track: Don't You Know It'll Be All Right (I'll Overcome Some Day)


track: Preaching by Reverend Reynolds

artist: Reverend Reynolds


track: I'm Going Home On The Morning Train


track: Collection address / I Wonder Will We Meet Again?


track: We Need Rain

artist: Elder James Rogers, Unidentified

album: Memphis III 10/59


track: Power

artist: Unidentified, Mattie Wigley


track: What You Think About Jesus (He's All Right)

artist: Bernice McClellan, Unidentified


track: Power (conclusion) (fragment)

artist: Unidentified


track: Power (continued) (fragment)


track: Sermon by Bishop J. O. Patterson

artist: Bishop J. O. Patterson, Unidentified


track: Lift Him Up (Help Me Jesus)

artist: Unidentified, Unidentified woman


track: Power In The Blood


track: Singing during collection at the Pentecostal Temple


track: Collection at the Pentecostal Temple


track: Jesus Keep (fragment)


track: Do Like The Bible Says (fragment)


track: Unidentified hymn / Look Where He Brought Me From

artist: Unidentified, Unidentified man, Unidentified woman


artist: Unidentified, Unidentified man


track: Testimony at the Pentecostal Temple


track: I Don't Know About You (I'm Gonna See It Through)


track: Prayer at the Pentecostal Temple


track: Going To See The King (When I Rise)


track: Getting Ready To Move Upstairs


track: Heaven Is Mine


track: Jesus Will Carry You Through


track: No Tears In Heaven

artist: Unidentified girls, Unidentified woman

album: Memphis II 10/59


track: God Is A Wonder In My Soul

artist: S. Garner, Unidentified


track: Sing Till The Power Of The Lord Come Down (II)

artist: Famous Smith, Unidentified


track: What He Done For Me

artist: Reverend L. L. Lockhart, Unidentified, Unidentified woman


track: Sermon at the Hart Temple

artist: Reverend L. L. Lockhart, Unidentified


track: Praise at the Hart Temple


track: Testimony at the Hart Temple

artist: Sister Littlejohn, Unidentified woman


track: Make It Somehow


track: Radio commercials at the Hart Temple


track: I Know A Man

artist: Robert Sim, Unidentified, Unidentified woman


track: Announcement and dedication at the Hart Temple

artist: Unidentified woman


track: Sing Till The Power Of The Lord Come Down (I)


track: Opening prayer at the Hart Temple

artist: Reverend L. L. Lockhart


track: There Is Not A Friend Like Jesus

artist: Annie Mae Clayton, Unidentified


track: No One Else Than Him

artist: Unidentified group


track: Bet I'll Get A Break

artist: Charlie Burse, Robert Carter, Dewey Corley, Will Shade, Eugene Smith

album: Memphis I 9/59


track: I'm Going To Newport News


track: West Indian Blues


track: Kokomo (II)


track: Kokomo (I)


track: Crawford's Jump

artist: Cecil Augusta


track: Stop All The Buses


track: Must This Body Die?

artist: George Spangler, Unidentified

album: Mayking 9/59


track: Why Must I Wear This Shroud?


track: And Treasures Are Laid Up Above

artist: Brother Day, Unidentified


track: Announcements at Thornton Old Regular Baptist Church

artist: Unidentified preacher


track: Preaching at Thornton Old Regular Baptist Church by Brother Day

artist: Brother Day


track: Preaching at Thornton Old Regular Baptist Church (III)


track: Preaching at Thornton Old Regular Baptist Church (II)

artist: Unidentified, Unidentified preacher


track: Preaching at Thornton Old Regular Baptist Church (I)


track: Our Home On Earth


track: The Sun Forbear To Shine


track: Amazing Grace

artist: Howard Adams, Unidentified


track: Preaching by George Spangler

artist: George Spangler


track: Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah


track: One Night, While The Moon Was Shining From Heaven

artist: Howard Adams, George Spangler, Unidentified


track: Brethren, We've Met Again


track: Announcement at Thornton Old Regular Baptist Church


track: Death Have Mercy (Spare Me Over Another Year) (III)

artist: Vera Ward Hall

album: Livingston 10/59


track: Death Have Mercy (Spare Me Over Another Year) (II)


track: Death Have Mercy (Spare Me Over Another Year) (I)


track: Young Speckled Lady


track: Trouble So Hard (II)


track: Trouble So Hard (I)


track: Trouble So Hard (fragment)


track: That's All Right

artist: Wade Darling


track: Old Speckled Lady


track: Wild Ox Moan (continued)


track: Boll Weevil Holler (II)


track: Wild Ox Moan


track: Boll Weevil Holler (I)


track: Talk/ambience


track: I Got A Home In That Rock


track: Ridin' In A Buggy / Candy Gal


track: Last Month Of The Year (III)


track: No Room At The Inn (story) (III)


track: No Room At The Inn (song) (III)


track: Wild Ox Moan (Black Woman) (II)


track: Wild Ox Moan (Black Woman) (I)


track: Mama's Gonna Buy (Come Up Horsey / Little Lap Dog)


track: Last Month Of The Year (last stanza)


track: Last Month Of The Year (II)


track: No Room At The Inn (story) (II)


track: No Room At The Inn (song) (II)


track: Last Month Of The Year (I)


track: No Room At The Inn (story) (I)


track: No Room At The Inn (song) (I)


track: Interview with Emma Hammond about dance tunes

artist: Albert Hammond, Emma Hammond, Alan Lomax

album: Lexington 9/59


track: Sandy Land

artist: Emma Hammond, Alan Lomax


track: Great Big Ice Potato

artist: Emma Hammond


track: Untitled banjo tune (II)

artist: Albert Hammond, Emma Hammond


track: Jenny Lind Polka


track: Untitled banjo tune (I)


track: Alabama Girls

artist: Shirley Collins, Emma Hammond, Alan Lomax


track: Joree's Scratch


track: The F Chord Tune / Camp Meeting


track: The Wiley Chord (II)


track: The Rabbit Dance


track: The Wiley Chord (I)


track: Live And Let Live

artist: Cleveland Murts


track: Dewdrop Waltz (II)


track: Dewdrop Waltz (I)


track: Interview with Emma Hammond about singing vulgar songs and women playing banjo


track: Catfish, Catfish (Shout, Lulu, Shout)


track: Haste To The Wedding


track: Interview with Emma Hammond and Albert Hammond about Catfish, Catfish (Shout, Lulu, Shout)


track: Eighth Of January


track: Story of Pat and Mike

artist: George Fields, Alan Lomax


track: Interview with George Fields and Lonnie Odum about Stoney Point

artist: Shirley Collins, George Fields, Alan Lomax, Lonnie Odum


track: Billy In The Lowground (Madagascar)

artist: George Fields


track: Interview with George Fields about fiddling


track: Bob Johnson's Tune (II)


track: Interview with George Fields and Lonnie Odum about Pie Crust


track: Interview with George Fields and Lonnie Odum about fiddler Bob Johnson

artist: George Fields, Alan Lomax, Lonnie Odum


track: Bob Johnson's Tune (I)


track: Interview with George Fields and Lonnie Odum about learning fiddle


track: Discussion between George Fields and Lonnie Odum about a wrestling match

artist: George Fields, Lonnie Odum


track: Nigger And White Man Playing Seven-Up


track: Walk Along John

artist: Absie Morrison

album: Landis 10/59


track: My Pretty Little Gal Is Gone


track: Prettiest Girl In Town


track: Interview with Absie Morrison about My Pretty Little Gal Is Gone

artist: Shirley Collins, Alan Lomax, Absie Morrison


track: Nancy's Got A Pretty Dress On


track: The Scotch Musick


track: Virginian March


track: Interview with Absie Morrison about The Scotch Musick


track: Sheep And Goats Go To Pasture


track: Interview with Absie Morrison about songs of surrender

artist: Alan Lomax, Absie Morrison


track: Hey Betty Martin (Tip Toe Betty Martin)


track: Interview with Absie Morrison about Hey Betty Martin


track: Lord Cornwallis' March


track: Interview with Absie Morrison about Lord Cornwallis' March


track: Bonaparte's Retreat


track: Interview with Absie Morrison about his forefathers


track: Bonaparte's Charge


track: Interview with Absie Morrison about Bonaparte's Retreat


track: Preaching at St. James Church

artist: Unidentified, Unidentified preacher

album: Huntsville 9/59


track: I'll Meet You On Canaan's Shore (continued, with preaching)


track: I'll Meet You On Canaan's Shore

artist: Unidentified


track: Old Ship Of Zion


track: Baptism invocation at St. James Church (continued)

artist: Reverend W. A. Donaldson, Unidentified


track: Baptism invocation at St. James Church


track: Prayer at St. James Church


track: Lay Down, You Weary One, Lay Down


track: Since I Laid My Burden Down


track: Baptism at St. James Church (continued)

artist: Reverend G. I. Townsel, Unidentified


track: Unidentified long meter hymn


track: Baptism at St. James Church


track: Red Cross Store

artist: Joe B. (Forrest City Joe) Pugh

album: Hughes 10/59


track: Train Time


track: Down On The Levee Blues


track: Down On The Levee Blues (false start)


track: Joe Lee's Rock (I)

artist: Roland (Boy Blue) Hayes, Willie (Joe Lee) Jones, Darnell Walker


track: Joe Lee's Rock (II)


track: Rocks Is My Pillow

artist: Willie Washington


track: She Lived Her Life Too Fast (II)

artist: Thomas Martin, Joe B. (Forrest City Joe) Pugh, Oliver Lee (Sonny Boy) Rodgers


track: Drink On, Little Girl (II)


track: Forrest City Boogie


track: Stop Breaking Down


track: You Got Dimples In Your Jaws


track: Boy Blue Rock


track: Boogie Children (II)


track: Boogie Children (I)


track: Forrest City Jump


track: Boogie Children (false start)


track: You Don't Love Me That Way


track: She Lived Her Life Too Fast (I)


track: You Gotta Cut That Out

artist: Joe B. (Forrest City Joe) Pugh, Unidentified


track: Drink On, Little Girl (I)


track: Blues Before Sunrise


track: You Gotta Cut That Out (false start) (II)


track: You Gotta Cut That Out (false start) (I)

artist: Alan Lomax, Thomas Martin, Joe B. (Forrest City Joe) Pugh, Oliver Lee (Sonny Boy) Rodgers


track: Baptising Down At The Creek

artist: Cullen Galyen, Charles Hawkes, James Lindsey, Eldridge Montgomery, Thurman Pugh

album: Hillsville II 8/59


track: My Lord Keeps A Record


track: Unidentified song fragment


track: The Old Country Church


track: John Henry (IV)


track: John Henry (III)


track: The Hickory Cane (II)


track: The Hickory Cane (III)


track: The Hickory Cane (I)


track: Big Ball In Boston (V)


track: Big Ball In Boston (IV)


track: Big Ball In Boston (III)


track: Big Ball In Boston (II)


track: Big Ball In Boston (I)


track: Big Tilda


track: Silly Bill


track: Rosewood Casket


track: John Henry (II)


track: John Henry (I)


track: Cotton Eyed Joe (III)


track: Cotton Eyed Joe (II)


track: Cotton Eyed Joe (I)


track: Shady Grove (IV)


track: Shady Grove (III)


track: Cotton Eyed Joe (false start)


track: Single Girl, Married Girl

artist: Ruby Vass


track: Banks Of The Ohio


track: The Old Gospel Ship


track: Sinful to Flirt


track: Shady Grove (II)


track: Shady Grove (I)


track: Old Joe Clark


track: Little Liza Jane


track: Jesse James (II)


track: Jesse James (I)


track: Cindy

artist: James Lindsey, Dale Stoneman, Glen Stoneman


track: Fortune


track: Richland


track: John Henry


track: Preaching by Ellis Hopkins

artist: Ellis Hopkins, Unidentified men

album: Whitesburg II 9/59


track: Interview with Ada Combs about log-rollings, quiltings, dance parties, and fights

artist: Ada Combs, Alan Lomax

album: Whitesburg I 9/59


track: Pretty Polly (fragment) / Give Me The Hook, Give Me The Line (fragment) / Jenny Get Around (fragment) / Interview with Ada Combs about courting, rearing children, marriage, domestic abuse, and murder

artist: Harry M. Caudill, Ada Combs, Alan Lomax


track: Interview with Ada Combs about courting, square dances, snake-handlers, God's will, and killings

artist: Shirley Collins, Ada Combs, Alan Lomax


track: O Mary Don't You Weep

artist: Viola James, H. C. Lee, Unidentified

album: Tyro 9/59


track: I'm Pressing On

artist: H. C. Lee, Unidentified


track: Jesus On The Mainline

artist: Viola James, James Shorter, Unidentified


track: Is There Anybody Here Who Loves My Jesus

artist: Viola James, Unidentified


track: This Little Light Of Mine

artist: James Shorter, Unidentified


track: Certainly Lord

artist: Evelina McClathery, Unidentified


track: Jesus Is Real To Me

artist: Mary Lee, Unidentified


track: I'm A Soldier In The Army Of The Lord

artist: Louise Green, Unidentified


track: Rock My Soul In The Bosom Of Abraham

artist: Velma Lucas, Unidentified


track: Trying To Make Heaven My Home


track: God's Unchanging Hand

artist: Anderson Burton, Unidentified


track: The Little Family (Mary, Martha, And Lazarus)

artist: Ollie Gilbert

album: Timbo 10/59


track: Who Will Shoe Your Foot?


track: Pretty Polly Oliver


track: The Western Cowboy


track: Down In Arkansas Among The Sticks

artist: Carlos (Bookmiller) Shannon


track: Cotton Eyed Joe


track: Interview with Carlos Shannon about his father

artist: Shirley Collins, Carlos (Bookmiller) Shannon


track: Eighth Of January


track: Buffalo Gals


track: Go Preaching Through The Wildnerness

artist: Oscar Gilbert


track: It Rained A Mist (The Jew's Garden)


track: Talk/ambience

artist: Shirley Collins, Ollie Gilbert, Oscar Gilbert


track: Interview with Ollie Gilbert and Oscar Gilbert about Joseph Looney


track: Once I Courted A Lady Beauty Bright


track: The Diver Boy (Edwin In The Lowlands Low)


track: Interview with Neal Morris about Rock All The Babies To Sleep

artist: Alan Lomax, Neal Morris


track: The Banks Of The Arkansas / Rock All the Babies To Sleep

artist: Neal Morris


track: Rock All the Babies To Sleep (II)


track: Rock All the Babies To Sleep (I)


track: Wave The Ocean

artist: Charlie Everidge, Neal Morris


track: The Banks Of The Arkansas


track: The Banks Of The Arkansas (false start)


track: Sally Goodin


track: Interview with Charlie Everidge and Neal Morris about the mouth bow

artist: Charlie Everidge, Alan Lomax, Neal Morris


track: Turkey In The Straw


track: Turkey In The Straw (false start)


track: Interview with Neal Morris about Jesse and Frank James


track: Jesse James (last stanza)


track: The Irish Soldier And The English Lady (The Nightingale Song)


track: Interview with Neal Morris on The Irish Soldier And The English Lady (The Nightingale Song)


track: Willie Brennan (Brennan On The Moor)


track: Introduction to The Irish Soldier And The English Lady (The Nightingale Song)


track: The Lass Of Loch Royale


track: Interview with Neal Morris about Anything


track: Corn Dodgers (single verse) (II)


track: Corn Dodgers (single verse) (I)


track: Interview with Neal Morris about Corn Dodgers


track: The Juice Of The Forbidden Fruit


track: Interview with Neal Morris about The Juice of the Forbidden Fruit


track: Interview with Neal Morris about Turnip Greens


track: Starting Up For Heaven (Standing In The Safety Zone)

artist: William Ayres, Brother Homer, Brother McGhee, Brother Owens, Brother Whitaker, Samuel Jones, James Leegan

album: Tate County 9/59


track: Unidentified gospel song


track: Introduction of the Morning Echoes


track: Announcement at St. Peter Church (II)

artist: Unidentified preacher


track: Got On My Travelin' Shoes

artist: Unidentified, Isham Williams


track: Announcement at St. Peter Church (I)


track: The Old Ship Of Zion


track: Have You Ever Heard A Man Speak Like This Before?


track: Buzzard Lope (Throw Me Anywhere, Lord) (III)

artist: George Cohen, Jerry Harris, Leola Harris, Bessie Jones, Emma Lee, Viola McQueen, Ruth Ozell

album: St. Simons Island I 10/59


track: Commentary by Isham Williams

artist: Isham Williams


track: Buzzard Lope (Throw Me Anywhere, Lord) (II)


track: Daniel In The Lion's Den (II)

artist: George Cohen, Jerry Harris, Leola Harris, Emma Lee, Viola McQueen, Ruth Ozell


track: Johnny Cuckoo


track: My Lord's Getting Us Ready For That Great Day (continued)

artist: George Cohen, John Davis, Jerry Harris, Leola Harris, Emma Lee, Viola McQueen, Ruth Ozell


track: Daniel In The Lion's Den (false start) (I)


track: Run To The Rock

artist: George Cohen, Henry Cohen, Jerry Harris, Leola Harris, Emma Lee, Viola McQueen, Ruth Ozell, Willis Proctor


track: My Lord's Getting Us Ready For That Great Day


track: Wade In The Water


track: Live Humble

artist: George Cohen, John Davis, Jerry Harris, Leola Harris, Bessie Jones, Emma Lee, Viola McQueen, Ruth Ozell


track: Little David, Play On Your Harp (II)


track: Little David, Play On Your Harp (I)


track: Down By The Riverside


track: On Calvary


track: He Never Said A Mumblin' Word


track: Everyone Talking About Heaven

artist: Joe Armstrong, Jerome Davis, John Davis, Peter Davis, Bessie Jones, Henry Morrison, Willis Proctor, Ben Ramsay, Unidentified woman


track: Sign Of The Judgment

artist: Joe Armstrong, Jerome Davis, John Davis, Peter Davis, Bessie Jones, Henry Morrison, Willis Proctor, Ben Ramsay


track: Prayer


track: Buzzard Lope (Throw Me Anywhere, Lord) (I)


track: Hambone

artist: Charles Gaskin, Bessie Jones


track: I'm Gonna Sail Like A Ship On The Ocean


track: Lazarus

artist: Henry Morrison


track: Interview with Henry Morrison about Lazarus

artist: Alan Lomax, Henry Morrison


track: One Of These Days


track: Daniel In The Lion's Den (I)


track: Eli, You Can't Stand


track: Blow Gabriel (Judgement Bar) (I)


track: Goodbye, Everybody


track: Blow Gabriel (Judgement Bar) (II)


track: Knee Bone


track: Adam In The Garden (III)


track: Daniel


track: Blow Gabriel (Judgement Bar)


track: Read 'Em, John


track: Moses, Don't Get Lost (II)


track: Adam In The Garden (II)


track: Moses, Don't Get Lost (I)


track: Adam In The Garden (I)


track: Hop Along, Let's Get Her (II)


track: Carrie Belle (II)


track: Carrie Belle (I)

artist: Joe Armstrong, Jerome Davis, John Davis, Peter Davis, Henry Morrison, Willis Proctor, Ben Ramsay


track: Hop Along, Let's Get Her (I)


track: O Raggy Levee (II)


track: O Raggy Levee (I)


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about Raggy Levee

artist: Joe Armstrong, Jerome Davis, John Davis, Peter Davis, Bessie Jones, Alan Lomax, Henry Morrison, Willis Proctor, Ben Ramsay


track: Riley (II)


track: Join The Band


track: Riley (I)


track: You Got My Letter


track: Pay Me My Money Down


track: Sometime

artist: Bessie Jones, Unidentified woman


track: Go to Sleepy Little Baby (II)

artist: Bessie Jones


track: The East Coast Line


track: Rock In The Weary Land


track: Go to Sleepy Little Baby (I)


track: You Better Mind How You Talk


track: O Mary Don't You Weep


track: O Death


track: Bold English Soldier (fragment) (II)

artist: Shirley Collins, Alan Lomax

album: Shirley Collins 1959


track: Bold English Soldier (fragment) (I)

artist: Shirley Collins


track: The Gentleman Soldier (The Sentry Box)


track: Ramble Away (fragment)


track: Ramble Away


track: Cuckoo's Nest


track: Maids When You're Young (Never Wed An Old Man)


track: Red Bird

artist: Bobby Jean Hemphill, Ruby Hemphill, Lucille Rice

album: Senatobia II 9/59


track: Sally Go Round The Sunshine


track: Jumpety Jump


track: Bumblebee Done Stang Me


track: Hold Up the Gatepost


track: Interview with Sidney Hemphill Carter about Everybody Ought To Treat A Stranger Right

artist: Sidney Hemphill Carter, Alan Lomax


track: Cornbread Rough, Cornbread Tough


track: Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby

artist: Sidney Hemphill Carter


track: In and Out the Window, Cindy


track: Everybody Ought To Treat A Stranger Right


track: Little Sally Walker (III)


track: Little Sally Walker (II)


track: Little Sally Walker (I)


track: Interview with Sidney Hemphill Carter about her father's singing


track: Pease Porridge


track: Leather Britches


track: Interview with Sidney Hemphill Carter and Sid Hemphill about Pharoah

artist: Sidney Hemphill Carter, Shirley Collins, Sid Hemphill, Alan Lomax


track: Pharoah


track: Worried Now


track: Unidentified blues

artist: Sid Hemphill, Lucius Smith

album: Senatobia I 9/59


track: Interview with Sid Hemphill and Lucius Smith about their playing together

artist: Sid Hemphill, Alan Lomax, Lucius Smith


track: Unidentified song


track: The Devil's Dream (II)


track: Interview with Lucius Smith about The Devil's Dream

artist: Alan Lomax, Lucius Smith


track: The Devil's Dream (I)


track: Come On Boys, Let's Go To The Ball


track: Interview with Lucius Smith about Beaver Dam

artist: Shirley Collins, Lucius Smith


track: You Can't Read, You Can't Write

artist: Sid Hemphill


track: Interview with Sid Hemphill about You Can't Read, You Can't Write

artist: Sid Hemphill, Alan Lomax


track: Don't Let My Rabbit Get Away (II)


track: Don't Let My Rabbit Get Away (III)


track: Walk In The Parlor (II)


track: Banjo Man (John Booker)


track: Interview with Sid Hemphill about Banjo Man


track: Don't Let My Rabbit Get Away (I)


track: Polly, Will You Marry Me (II)


track: Banjo Man (John Booker) (fragment)


track: Polly, Will You Marry Me (I)


track: Goodbye Honey, You Call That Gone

artist: Lucius Smith


track: Interview with Lucius Smith about Goodbye Honey, You Call That Gone

artist: Shirley Collins, Alan Lomax, Lucius Smith


track: Interview with Lucius Smith about Memphis Blues and his tunings


track: Memphis Blues


track: Make Lulu Behave Herself (II)


track: Interview with Lucius Smith about Make Lulu Behave Herself / Banjo tuning


track: Interview with Sid Hemphill and Lucius Smith about family and women


track: Walk In The Parlor (I)


track: Make Lulu Behave Herself (I)


track: Emmaline, Take Your Time


track: Interview with Sid Hemphill about Emmaline, Take Your Time


track: The Lone Green Valley

artist: Texas Gladden

album: Salem 8/59


track: The Baseball Man

artist: Texas Gladden, Cynthia Tuttle


track: Whole Heap A Little Horses (II)


track: Interview with Texas Gladden about her granddaughter

artist: Texas Gladden, Alan Lomax, Cynthia Tuttle


track: The Teddy Bears' Picnic


track: Whole Heap A Little Horses (I)


track: Father, Adieu

artist: Estil (E. C.) Ball

album: Rugby 8/59


track: Poor Wayfaring Stranger


track: Lonesome Valley

artist: Estil (E. C.) Ball, Orna Ball, Blair Reedy, Lacey Richardson


track: Jenny Jenkins (II)

artist: Estil (E. C.) Ball, Orna Ball


track: Lonesome Valley (fragment)


track: Jenny Jenkins (I)


track: The Cabin On The Hill

artist: Estil (E. C.) Ball, Orna Ball, Blair Reedy


track: The Farmer's Curst Wife


track: Announcement by E. C. Ball


track: Father, Jesus Loves You


track: Poor Ellen Smith


track: Pretty Polly


track: Please Let Me Stay A Little Longer

artist: Estil (E. C.) Ball, Blair Reedy, Lacey Richardson


track: When I Get Home I'm Gonna Be Satisfied (II)


track: When I Get Home I'm Gonna Be Satisfied (I)


track: Trials, Troubles, Tribulations (II)


track: Trials, Troubles, Tribulations (fragment)


track: When I Get Home I'm Gonna Be Satisfied (false starts)

artist: Estil (E. C.) Ball, Alan Lomax


track: Trials, Troubles, Tribulations (I)

artist: Estil (E. C.) Ball, Lacey Richardson


track: Paper Of Pins (II)

artist: Estil (E. C.) Ball, Orna Ball, Lacey Richardson


track: Trials, Troubles, Tribulations (false start)


track: Paper Of Pins (I)


track: Early In The Morning

artist: Johnny Lee Moore, Unidentified prisoners

album: Parchman 9/59 (Camp B)


track: Stewball (III)


track: I Am A Pilgrim (fragment)


track: Interview with Heuston Earms about Poor Lazarus, his childhood, and his hardships

artist: Heuston Earms, Alan Lomax


track: I Been Havin' Troubles

artist: Heuston Earms


track: Interview with Heuston Earms about singing and his time in prison


track: Stewball (II)


track: Ain't Been Able to Get Back Home No More (Rosie)


track: Interview with Heuston Earms about Stewball


track: Rosie (Style C)


track: Interview with Heuston Earms about good work song leaders


track: Rosie (Style B)


track: Interview with Heuston Earms about Camp C's Rosie


track: Rosie (Style A)


track: Interview with Heuston Earms about different styles of Rosie


track: John Henry

artist: Ed Lewis


track: Interview with Ed Lewis about work songs

artist: Ed Lewis, Alan Lomax


track: Tom Devil

artist: James Carter, Ed Lewis, Henry Mason, Johnny Lee Moore


track: Dollar Mamie


track: Interview with James Carter, Heuston Earms, and other prisoners about Poor Lazarus

artist: James Carter, Heuston Earms, Alan Lomax


track: Poor Lazarus

artist: James Carter, Unidentified prisoners


track: Levee Camp Holler (II)


track: Interview with Ed Lewis about his Levee Camp Holler


track: Levee Camp Holler (Downtown Money Waster) (I)

artist: Johnny Lee Moore


track: Eighteen Hammers


track: I Be So Glad When The Sun Goes Down

artist: Ed Lewis, Unidentified prisoners


artist: George Golden, Unidentified prisoners


track: Stewball (II)


track: Berta (II)


track: Black Gal


track: Stewball (I)


track: Berta (I)

artist: John Edwards, Unidentified prisoners


artist: James Campbell, Fred Paine, Unidentified prisoners

album: Parchman 9/59 (Camp 7)


track: Captain George

artist: James Campbell, L. C. Hoskins, John Oliver, Ernest Woodson


track: Alberta (Berta, Berta)

artist: Albert Culbertson, Leroy Grant, Walter Hood, Leroy Miller, Grover Wells


track: It Makes A Long Time Man Feel Bad

artist: Leroy Grant, Clifton Haughton, Walter Hood


track: Little Bitty Frenchman

artist: L. A. Bedford, Unidentified prisoners, Grover Wells


track: Forty Miles

artist: Leroy Grant


track: (Look For Me In) Louisiana

artist: Henry Ratcliff


track: Mama Lucy


track: John Henry

artist: Unidentified prisoners, Grover Wells


track: Poor Lazarus

artist: Clyde Jones, Unidentified prisoners


track: Rosie


artist: Leroy Miller, Unidentified prisoners


track: Going To Memphis

artist: Clifton Haughton, Unidentified prisoners


track: Roxie

artist: Unidentified prisoners

album: Parchman 9/59 (Camp 11)


track: Talk/ambience

artist: Floyd Batts


track: Boats Up The River (fragment)


track: Lucky Song


track: Interview with Floyd Batts about Lucky Song

artist: Floyd Batts, Alan Lomax


track: Dangerous Blues


track: Tom Devil

artist: Ernest Woodson


track: Tom Devil / Take This Hammer

artist: L. C. Hoskins, Unidentified prisoners


track: Dollar Mamie

artist: Floyd Batts, Unidentified prisoners


track: Cool Drink Of Water Blues (II)

artist: John Dudley

album: Parchman 10/59


track: I'm Gonna Move To Kansas City


track: You's One Little Wretch

artist: Harold Blackman, Ervin Webb


track: Interview with Ervin Webb about You's One Little Wretch

artist: Alan Lomax, Ervin Webb


track: Interview with John Dudley about playing guitar at dances

artist: John Dudley, Alan Lomax


track: Cool Drink Of Water Blues (I)


track: Composite of field hollers

artist: Bridges Lee Cole


track: Interview with William Washington about My Jack Don't Drink No Water

artist: Alan Lomax, Willie Washington


track: My Jack Don't Drink No Water

artist: Willie Washington


track: Interview with Ervin Webb about I'm Going Home


track: I'm Going Home

artist: Unidentified group, Ervin Webb


track: I'm Going Home (continued)

artist: Unidentified, Ervin Webb


track: You Got A Mean Disposition


track: Clarksdale Mill Blues (II)


track: Clarksdale Mill Blues (I)


track: Interview with Mississippi hitchhiker (III)

artist: Shirley Collins, Alan Lomax, Unidentified man

album: Mississippi in transit 9/59


track: In The Name Of The Almighty God

artist: Unidentified man


track: Cluck Old Hen

artist: Hobart Smith

album: Williamsburg 4/60


track: The Devil's Dream


track: Joe Turner

artist: Hobart Smith, Ed Young


track: The Fisher's Hornpipe


track: Joe Turner (false start)


track: Claude Allen


track: Railroad Bill


track: Before This Time Another Year (II)

artist: John Davis, Bessie Jones, Alberta Ramsay, Emma Ramsay, Ed Young


track: Before This Time Another Year (false start) (II)

artist: Bessie Jones


track: Before This Time Another Year (I)

artist: John Davis, Bessie Jones, Ms. Ora, Nathaniel (Nat) Rahmings, Alberta Ramsay, Emma Ramsay, Ed Young


track: Drunken Hiccups


track: I Got A Home

artist: Ms. Ora, Nathaniel (Nat) Rahmings, Hobart Smith, Ed Young


track: Talk/ambience

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified


track: Before This Time Another Year (false start) (I)

artist: Bessie Jones, Ed Young


track: Beulah Land

artist: John Davis, Bessie Jones, Ms. Ora, Nathaniel (Nat) Rahmings, Hobart Smith, Ed Young


track: Buzzard Lope

artist: John Davis, Henry Morrison, Nathaniel (Nat) Rahmings, Alberta Ramsay, Emma Ramsay, Hobart Smith, Ed Young


track: Walk On The Bay

artist: John Davis, Mrs. Nathaniel Rahmings, Nathaniel (Nat) Rahmings, Alberta Ramsay, Emma Ramsay, Hobart Smith, Ed Young


track: Reg'lar, Reg'lar, Rollin' Under

artist: Mrs. Nathaniel Rahmings, Nathaniel (Nat) Rahmings, Alberta Ramsay, Emma Ramsay, Hobart Smith, Ed Young


track: Poor Lazarus (III)

artist: Robert Beane, Shedrick Cain, James Campbell, Arnold Fisher, Laurence Hodge

album: Weems or Whitestone 5/60


track: Buzzard Lope (false start)


track: Poor Lazarus (II)


track: Hey, Hey, Honey (X)


track: Hey, Hey, Honey (IX)


track: Hey, Hey, Honey (VIII)


track: Hey, Hey, Honey (VII)


track: Hey, Hey, Honey (false start)


track: Hey, Hey, Honey (VI)


track: Hey, Hey, Honey (V)


track: Medley of work songs and chanteys

artist: Shedrick Cain, James Campbell, Arnold Fisher, Laurence Hodge


track: Hey, Hey, Honey (fragment)


track: Sweet Roseanna (false start)

artist: Shedrick Cain


track: Bitin' Spider


track: Evelina


track: Let Me Ride


track: Straighten 'Em (II)


track: Let Me Ride (false start)


track: Hey, Hey, Honey (III)


track: Hey, Hey, Honey (IV)


track: Hey, Hey, Honey (II)


track: Talk/ambience


track: Hey, Hey, Honey (I)


track: I'm Tired


track: Walk In Jerusalem


track: Straighten 'Em (I)


track: The Christian Automobile


track: Just Beyond The River


track: The Prayer Wheel


track: How I Love Jesus


track: Sweet Roseanna (V)


track: Sweet Roseanna (IV)


track: Sweet Roseanna (III)


track: Sweet Roseanna (II)


track: Medley of chanteys


track: Little Liza Jane


track: Poor Lazarus (I)


track: Sweet Roseanna (I)


track: Hey, Hey, Honey / Evelina (fragment)


track: Daniel In The Lion's Den

artist: Charles Barnett

album: Weems 5/60


track: Sheep From The Goats


track: David And Goliath


track: Sheep From The Goats (false start)


track: Interview with Charles Barnett about The Lord Called Adam / Old Time Religion / John Henry

artist: Charles Barnett, Alan Lomax


track: The Lord Called Adam


track: Moses Was A Servant Of The Lord


track: Unidentified song fragment


track: Run To Jesus For Refuge


track: Unidentified song (II)


track: Interview with Charles Barnett about learning songs


track: Unidentified song (I)


track: Interview with Charles Barnett about dancing


track: Remember, Jesus Died When He Was Young


track: Interview with Charles Barnett about working at steamboat wharfs

artist: Charles Barnett, Alan Lomax, Unidentified man


track: Georgia Buck Is Dead


track: Interview with Charles Barnett about Georgia Buck is Dead


track: Interview with Jim Queen about spirituals / John Henry / Goin' Back To West Virginia / Carry Myself To Jesus

artist: Alan Lomax, Jim Queen

album: Warrenton 5/60


track: Somebody Waiting For Me

artist: Jim Queen


track: Old Man, Can I Have Your Daughter?


track: Interview with Jim Queen about his singing voice


track: Old Jim Little (II)


track: Interview with Jim Queen about Lynchburg Town


track: Interview with Jim Queen about the songs he knows / God Almighty's Waiting For Me Too / Sugar In The Gourd


track: Old Man, Can I Have Your Daughter? / Interview with Jim Queen


track: Somebody Waiting For Me / The Rooster And The Gobbler


track: Interview with Jim Queen about Somebody Waiting For Me


track: Interview with Jim Queen / Coo Coo


track: Old Jim Little (I)


track: Interview with Jim Queen about learning songs from white people


track: Don't Like A Nigger No How / Don't Let A Dollar Roll By


track: Juba

artist: Bessie Jones

album: St. Simons Island III 4/60


track: Interview with Jim Queen about his first banjo


track: Oh Me, Oh My, Don't Let A Dollar Roll By


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about I'm Gonna Lay Down My Life For The Lord

artist: Bessie Jones, Alan Lomax


track: I'm Gonna Lay Down My Life For My Lord

artist: John Davis, Peter Davis, Bessie Jones, Henry Morrison, Willis Proctor


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about Turkle Dove Done Drooped His Wings


track: Turkle Dove (Done Drooped His Wings)


track: O Day (Yonder Come Day)


track: Interview with Bessie Jones and John Davis about O Day (Yonder Come Day)

artist: John Davis, Bessie Jones, Alan Lomax


track: Sink 'Em Low


track: Hard Times In Old Virginia


track: Interview with Bessie Jones on Sink 'Em Low


track: Interview with Willis Proctor about Walk Billy Abbott

artist: Alan Lomax, Willis Proctor


track: Old Tar River (II)

artist: John Davis, Peter Davis, Henry Morrison, Willis Proctor


track: Walk Billy Abbot


track: Old Tar River (fragment) / Interview with John Davis about Old Tar River

artist: John Davis, Alan Lomax


track: Talk/ambience


track: Union


track: Sheep, Sheep, Don't You Know The Road (II)


track: Old Tar River (I)


track: Sheep, Sheep, Don't You Know The Road (false start)


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about Sheep, Sheep Don't You Know The Road


track: Sheep, Sheep, Don't You Know The Road (I)

artist: John Davis, Peter Davis, Bessie Jones, Henry Morrison, Willis Proctor, Robin


track: Moses


track: Row The Boat, Child


track: Raggy Levee (II)


track: Interview with Bessie Jones, Peter Davis, and John Davis about Raggy Levee

artist: John Davis, Peter Davis, Bessie Jones, Alan Lomax


track: Raggy Levee (I)


track: Interview with Bessie Jones, John Davis, and Henry Morrison about Oh Raggy Levee and Ain't I Right?

artist: John Davis, Bessie Jones, Henry Morrison


track: Ain't I Right? (II)


track: Ain't I Right? (I)


track: Interview with Henry Morrison and John Davis about Ain't I Right?

artist: John Davis, Alan Lomax, Henry Morrison


track: See Aunt Dinah (II)

artist: John Davis, Peter Davis, Bessie Jones, Henry Morrison, Willis Proctor, Unidentified girls, Unidentified man


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about the See Aunt Dinah dance


track: See Aunt Dinah (I)

artist: John Davis, Peter Davis, Bessie Jones, Henry Morrison, Willis Proctor, Robin, Unidentified man


track: Let Me Fly

artist: John Davis, Bessie Jones, Henry Morrison, Alberta Ramsay, Emma Ramsay

album: St. Simons Island II 4/60


track: Lawyer's Suit


track: John


track: It Just Suits Me (That Suits Me)

artist: John Davis, Bessie Jones, Emma Ramsay, Hobart Smith


track: O Day

artist: John Davis, Bessie Jones, Emma Ramsay, Hobart Smith, Ed Young


track: Talk/ambience


track: The Titanic


track: O Day (false start)


track: Heaven On My Mind

artist: Alberta Ramsay, Emma Ramsay, Rena, Unidentified woman


track: See Aunt Dinah

artist: John Davis, Cornelia Hunter, Bessie Jones, Henry Morrison, Alberta Ramsay


track: The Titanic (false start)

artist: Bessie Jones


track: Heaven On My Mind (false start)


track: There Was Very Untidy Man

artist: Robert Graves

album: Robert Graves 1960


track: The Lambs On The Green Hills


track: There Was A Fiddler Both Stout And Strong (fragment)


track: O Jean Baptiste Pourquoi?


track: Introduction to O Jean Baptiste Pourquoi?


track: Wiltshire Shepherd Song


track: Poor Little Jimmy Murphy


track: Introduction to Wiltshire Shepherd Song


track: Introduction to Poor Little Jimmy Murphy


track: Marching Song Of The 88th Carnatic Regiment Of The Indian Army


track: Introduction to the Marching Song Of The 88th Carnatic Regiment Of The Indian Army


track: Marching Song Of The Welsh Wiltshire Regiment


track: Introduction to the Marching Song Of The Welsh Wiltshire Regiment


track: The Lambs On The Green Hills (fragment)


track: Microphone test

artist: Unidentified woman


track: O Emma

artist: Alan Lomax, Hally Wood

album: Rio Piedras 5/60


track: Cuckoo (The Cockoo, She's A Pretty Bird)

artist: Hally Wood


track: I Love My Love

artist: Alan Lomax


track: Waitin' For Rain (II)


track: Waitin' For Rain (I)


track: Give Me The Gourd (Reg'lar, Reg'lar, Rollin' Under)


track: Unidentified corn-shucking song


track: Way Down In The Cotton Field


track: Farewell To The Rock


track: Hands Go Round (Jing Jang)


track: Tune Played On A Little Set Of Quills

artist: Bernice Prentice


track: Alan Lomax comments on quill song


track: I Rock 'Em A Mona


track: Sabbath Has No End


track: No More Rain Fall


track: Unidentified spiritual

artist: Unidentified

album: Portsmouth 5/60


track: Round The Corn, Sally


track: Shock Along, John


track: God Is Good To Me

artist: Unidentified, Unidentified woman


track: Unidentified instrumental


track: Preaching by Bishop C. A. Twine at Number Two Union Holiness Church

artist: Bishop C. A. Twine


track: Announcements / Preaching


track: A Charge To Keep I Have

artist: Bishop C. A. Twine, Unidentified


track: Come, Ye Disconsolate / Testimony


track: Preaching at Number Two Union Holiness Church

artist: Unidentified man


track: Unidentified hymn


track: Bible reading (John 3:1-8)


track: Unidentified hymn (further recitation and conclusion)


track: Recitation of unidentified hymn


track: Come, Ye Disconsolate


track: Jesus On The Mainline

album: Norfolk 5/60


track: Prayer at the Number Two Union Holiness Church


track: Soldier In The Army Of The Lord (continued) (fragment)


track: I'm A Soldier In The Army Of The Lord


track: Trouble In My Way


track: How Could I Live


track: Medley of spirituals (II)

artist: Caleb Garris, Unidentified

album: Belleville 4/60


track: The Lord Is My Strength And My Song


track: O Lord, I Come (The House Of The Lord)


track: Medley of spirituals (I)

artist: Caleb Garris, Rhoda Parrish, Unidentified


track: Honor The Lamb


track: Talk/ambience


track: John The Revelator (II)


track: Honor The Lamb (fragment)


track: Jesus Born In Beth'ny (fragment)


track: John The Revelator (I)


track: When The Stars Begin To Fall


track: The Gospel Train


track: Interview with Rhoda Parrish about the composition of the church's songs

artist: Alan Lomax, Rhoda Parrish, Unidentified


track: Honor, Honor

artist: Rhoda Parrish, Unidentified


track: Come On, Israel


track: I'm On Battlefield For My Lord


track: Further On (continued)


track: David Was A Righteous Man (David Was A Shepherd Boy) / Further On


track: Medley of spirituals


track: If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again

artist: Cephus Brown, P. Claiborne, Ellis McPherson, Ida Lee Scott, Sonny Scott, Melvin Smith


track: Jesus Lifted Me


track: The Very Same God


track: Interview with Cephus Brown, Sonny Scott, and Ida Lee Scott about The Very Same God

artist: Cephus Brown, Alan Lomax, Ida Lee Scott, Sonny Scott


track: Interview with Cephus Brown, Sonny Scott, and Ida Lee Scott about Dark Day


track: Dark Day


track: In That New Jerusalem

artist: Cephus Brown, P. Claiborne, Ellis McPherson, Melvin Smith


track: Witness For My Lord


track: The Gospel Train (false start)


track: Dogging Steel (continued)

artist: Unidentified men, Willie

album: Williamson 9/59


track: Dogging Steel


track: Interview with Harry Caudill and Anne Frye Caudill about society and gender in Eastern Kentucky

artist: Anne Frye Caudill, Harry M. Caudill, Shirley Collins, Alan Lomax

album: Whitesburg II 9/59


track: Interview with Harry Caudill and Anne Frye Caudill about economics, gender, and society in Eastern Kentucky

artist: Anne Frye Caudill, Harry M. Caudill, Alan Lomax


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on children and grandchildren (II)

artist: Bessie Jones, Antoinette Marchand

album: Bessie Jones IX 10/61


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on children and grandchildren (I)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on rough boys, parenting, and punishing children


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on how her daughter addresses her


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on work in a shrimp factory


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on being a mother and grandmother


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on migrant farm work (continued)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on work in a tomato juice factory


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on migrant farm work


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the first time her husband George saw snow


track: He Done Just What He Said

artist: Bessie Jones

album: Bessie Jones IV 9/61


track: Go Ahead


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Go Ahead and He Done Just What He Said


track: Anyhow (Scandalize My Name)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on The Sun Will Never Go Down and Anyhow


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the necessity of prayer


track: Where The Sun Will Never Go Down


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on There's Singin' In The Air and Where The Sun Will Never Go Down


track: There's Singin' In The Air


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the timelessness of music


track: I've Got A Right To The Tree Of Life


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about leprechauns and I Got A Right To The Tree Of Life


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about frizzled chickens kept for hoodoo


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about keeping healthy and living longer


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about When That Train Make Its Last Station Blow, and her father's family


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about the Primitive Baptists and When That Train Make His Last Station Blow


track: When That Train Make Its Last Station Blow


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about her first marriage


track: Bow On My Knees And I Pray


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Bow On My Knees And I Pray (II)


track: Casey Jones


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about being saved (II)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Bow On My Knees And I Pray (I)


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about being saved (I)


track: Ain't That Good News (fragment)


track: Jesus Told Me To Go


track: Lord, Help Me To Stand


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Lord, Help Me To Stand


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about making up songs (fragment)


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about overcoming her stammer


track: The Devil Been To My House Today


track: Somebody Needs You, Lord, Come By Here (Kumbaya)


track: Go On, I'll Go With You


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about Go On, I'll Go With You


track: I Don't Know What I'll Do Without The Lord


track: How Much I Owe For Love Divine


track: What Do You Want Your Lord To Say?


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on How Much I Owe For Love Divine


track: Got To Glorify (A Charge To Keep I Have)


track: If You Meet King Jesus At The River


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on A Charge To Keep I have


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Got To Glorify


track: The Blood Done Signed My Name


track: If You Started For The Kingdom, Don't Turn Back


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about learning songs


track: Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on You Started For The Kingdom, Don't Turn Back


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about You Ought To Get Tired Sometime and Juba


track: You Ought To Get Tired Sometime (Scandalize My Name)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the multitude of Christian denominations

album: Bessie Jones IV 10/61


track: Talk/ambience


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about the mumps


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about going to the dentist


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about lesbians


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about her Dawson relatives in St. Simons and about children knowing their father


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about her favorite trees


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about death, funerals, and tombstones


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about the single life


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about her hustler friends in Miami

artist: Bessie Jones, Alan Lomax


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about a Polk County turpentine camp and the Polk County Blues


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about her daughter's interest in boys


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about raising babies


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about weaning


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about nursing human and animal babies


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about the benefits of fasting and of baptism

artist: Bessie Jones, Alan Lomax, Antoinette Marchand


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about modesty in female dress


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about rape


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about Milan, Georgia, and her fear of mules


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about agriculture in Dawson and Fitzgerald, Georgia


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about the landscape of Dawson and Fitzgerald, Georgia


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about house-building and saving up for a home


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about rice plantations and agriculture on St. Simons Island


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about a jealousy fight and playing cards


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on a quarrel with another woman


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on her Uncle Gene and selling one's soul to the devil


track: Lay Around Town


track: Discussion with Bessie Jones about guitar lessons and dance styles


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about Diamond Joe


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about Hopalong Charlie and Dupree and 1920s popular music


track: Diamond Joe


track: Ride On, King (fragment)

album: Bessie Jones III 9/61


track: I Know My Time Ain't Long (Goodbye, Sinner)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on I Know My Time Ain't Long (Goodbye, Sinner) and Ride On King


track: Throw Me Overboard


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on I Know My Time Ain't Long (Goodbye, Sinner)


track: Once There Was No Moon


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Throw Me Overboard


track: Heaven, Heaven (Gonna Shout All Over God's Heaven)


track: Commentary with Bessie Jones on Once There Was No Moon


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Uncle Ned and Heaven, Heaven


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Won't It Be Grand and I Know An Old Man And His Name Was Ned


track: Uncle Ned (I Know An Old Man And His Name Was Ned)


track: Won't It Be Grand?


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about Nora, Hoist The Window and Won't It Be Grand?


track: Nora, Hoist The Window / Let The Dove Come In (Who Built The Ark?)


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about her family's songs and Nora, Hoist The Window


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about Lordy, Don't Leave Me, Some Of These Days, and Walk In The Light


track: Walk In The Light


track: Lordy, Don't Leave Me


track: Let Me Fly To Mount Zion (The Promised Land)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Let Me Fly To Mount Zion and Lordy, Don't Leave Me


track: Over Yonder (On That Other Shore)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Over Yonder


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Bob-a-Needle (Bobbin' Needle)


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about old spirituals


track: Bob-a-Needle (Bobbin' Needle)


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about Uncle Jesse and Bob-a-Needle


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about East Coast Line and Uncle Jesse


track: Uncle Jesse


track: East Coast Line


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on East Coast Line


track: Soup Soup (II)


track: Soup Soup (I)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Soup Soup


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Nana, Thread Needle and Soup Soup


track: Nana, Thread Needle (II)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Just From The Kitchen and Nana, Thread Needle


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Nana, Thread Needle


track: Nana, Thread Needle (I)


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about Elephant Fair


track: Just From The Kitchen


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on We're Called The Christian Soldiers and her schooling


track: We're Called The Christian Soldiers


track: Elephant Fair


track: Sunshine And Rain


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Sunshine And Rain


track: My Lord What A Mornin' (When The Stars Begin To Fall)


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about courtship


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on My Lord What A Mornin' (When The Stars Begin To Fall)


track: Have Courage To Say No


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on secular and spiritual education


track: Steal Away


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about If You Don't Like The Way I Do, her schooling, and Steal Away


track: If You Don't Like The Way I Do (If You Don't Like My Peaches)


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about the Coonshine dance


track: Coonshine (Mama Don't Allow)


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about singing during work


track: Ol' Mule, I Say


track: Shortnin' Bread


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Rap Jack and Ol' Mule, I Say


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Ol' Mule, I Say and her musical grandfather


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about Old Bill The Rolling Pin


track: Old Bill The Rolling Pin


track: Railroad Bill


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about songs she learned from her grandparents


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on being saved

album: Bessie Jones III 10/61


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about her father and grandparents


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about frizzled chickens


track: Stories about hunting and fishing


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on share-cropping


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on taking in foster children


track: Story about a neglected child singing the blues


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about the flood of 1928 (II)

album: Bessie Jones II 9/61


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about laughter and racial stereotyping


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about the flood of 1928 (I)


track: Story about a white farmer praying for rain


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on midwifery and delivering babies (III)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on midwifery and delivering babies (II)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on conception and pregnancy


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on midwifery and delivering babies (I)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on napping in fields and snakes


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on childhood fishing experiences


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on her home in Dawson and heat exhaustion


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on dangerous snakes


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on her Native American great-grandfather


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on chickens and guinea hens


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the uses of calamus root

album: Bessie Jones II 11/61


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on robbers and Native Americans


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on poisonous mushrooms


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the uses of mullein


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the uses of camphor and witch haze


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the uses of gray skirrel CHECK


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the uses of aromatic deer tongue and dog tongue


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the uses of wintergreen


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the uses of long heart CHECK


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the medicinal uses of wild herbs and weeds


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the uses of catalpa


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the uses of mint


track: Plumb The Line

album: Bessie Jones II 10/61


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about Travelin' Shoes and Plumb The Line


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones about Plumb The Line


track: Travelin' Shoes


track: Goin' to Chatanooga


track: Pretty Little Girl


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Pretty Little Girl


track: Josephine


track: Bessie Jones introduces Pretty Little Girl


track: Come On Sister, Let's Go Around The Wall (That Suits Me)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Let's Go Around The Wall and The Wall Of Tribulation


track: Rock From Side To Side (I'm Going To Sit In The Humble Chair)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Rock From Side To Side


track: Way Down Yonder In The Brickyard (Step It Down)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones about Way Down Yonder In The Brickyard (Step It Down)


track: Sir Mister Brown


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones about Way Down Yonder In The Brickyard


track: Oh, Green Fields, Roxie


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones about Sir Mister Brown


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Oh Green Fields, Roxie


track: Sandy Ree (Sangaree)


track: This Train Is A Clean Train (This Train)


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about This Train is a Clean Train and Sandy Ree (Sangaree)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on turpentine camps


track: Bob Young's Raisin Whoop


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on cooking alligator


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Wade in the Green Valley (Heavy, Heavy) and Gator


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on One-Foot-Two-Foot (II)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on One-Foot-Two-Foot (I)


track: Goodbye Everybody


track: Goodbye And Fare You Well


track: One Foot, Two Foot


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Goodbye Everybody and Goodbye And Fare You Well


track: J. P. Morgan


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Shoo Turkey and J. P. Morgan


track: Shoo, Turkey


track: Interview with Bessie Jones on All Hid and Shoo, Turkey


track: All Hid


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on All Hid


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones about Wire Gal, Boil Your Cabbage Down, and Juba


track: Wire Gal


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Pigeon Wing and Wire Gal


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about Possum-La and Sink The Titanic


track: Sink The Titanic


track: Possum-La


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about Crumb Williams

album: Bessie Jones I 9/61


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about bootlegging


track: Toast about quitting drinking


track: Riddles about East Hell and West Hell


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about working on a bean farm


track: Medley of riddles (II)


track: Story about a rabbit (III)


track: Story about a rabbit (II)


track: Medley of riddles (I)


track: Story about a rabbit (I)


track: Story about a man who prayed to the devil


track: Story about a man who prayed to see his dead son


track: Slavery-era story about a man named Enoch


track: Beggin' The Blues


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about The Man I Love He Is Dead And Gone, Freight Train Blues, and Beggin' The Blues


track: The Man I Love He Is Dead And Gone (I)


track: The Man I Love He Is Dead And Gone (II)


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about her first marriage proposal