Jones, Bessie / Davis, John / McDowell, Fred: The Complete Friends of Old Time Music Concert
Jones, Bessie / Davis, John / McDowell, Fred: The Complete Friends of Old Time Music Concert
Format: CD
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Artist: Jones, Bessie / Davis, John / McDowell, Fred
Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 093074025826
Genre: Blues
Bessie Jones, John Davis, and the Georgia Sea Island Singers gained wide renown during the 1960s and '70s for their powerful performances of traditional songs from the African American Gullah Geechee community on St. Simons Island, Georgia. Most in the group were born and raised on St. Simons, and could trace their ancestry to the enslaved West and Central Africans who worked on the island's cotton plantations. Throughout the '60s, the Georgia Sea Island Singers were prominent voices in the civil rights movement, bringing hundreds of years of Black musical tradition to bear on a pivotal time in American history. This previously unheard recording captures their complete Friends of Old Time Music concert of April 1965, at which they were joined by legendary bluesman Mississippi Fred McDowell, cane fife player Ed Young, and folklorist Alan Lomax, who acted as emcee. The album showcases a variety of traditional music from the Island and beyond, including stirring work songs, emotionally charged spirituals, jubilant songs for children, and revelatory renditions of Mississippi blues.
Tracks:
1.1 Introduction By Alan Lomax / Travelin' Shoes
1.2 Handclapping - Cane Fife
1.3 Buzzard Lope (Dance) - in That Old Field
1.4 Josephine
1.5 Goodbye My Riley O
1.6 Go Row the Boat Child
1.7 Join the Band
1.8 Sink 'Em Low
1.9 Going Down to the River
1.10 Shake 'Em on Down
1.11 Once There Was No Sun
1.12 Adam in the Garden
1.13 Who Built the Ark
1.14 Let My Children Go
1.15 My God Is a Rock
1.16 I Heard the Angels Singing
1.17 Read 'Em John
1.18 Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning
1.19 Sign of the Judgment
1.20 Chevrolet
1.21 Write Me a Few of Your Lines
1.22 Don't Ever Leave Me
1.23 Marching on the Mississippi Line
1.24 Down to the Mire
1.25 Before This Time Another Year
