PARCHMAN FARM: PHOTOGRAPHS & FIELD REC 1 - CD PARCHMAN FARM: PHOTOGRAPHS & FIELD REC 1

Popis - PARCHMAN FARM: PHOTOGRAPHS & FIELD REC 1:
'Photographs And Field Recordings: 1947-1959' In 1947, 1948 and 1959, renowned folklorist Alan Lomax went behind the barbed wire into the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. Armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck-and, in 1959, a camera, Lomax documented as best an outsider could the stark and savage conditions of the prison farm, where the black inmates labored "from cant to cant," chopping timber, clearing ground, and picking cotton for the state. They sang as they worked, keeping time with axes or hoes, adapting to their condition the slavery-time hollers that sustained their forbears and creating a new body of American song. Theirs was music, as Lomax wrote, that "testified to the love of truth and beauty which is a universal human trait." 124-page hardcover book with 2 CDs, 6.25 inches x 9.5 inches (landscape). Includes slipcase and foil stamping. 44 audio recordings, 12 previously unreleased, all newly remastered; 77 photographs, many published here for the first time; Essays by Alan Lomax, Anna Lomax Wood, and Bruce Jackson. Produced by Lance Ledbetter, founder of Dust-to-Digital, and Nathan Salsburg, curator of the Alan Lomax Archive.
Disc 1: 1947-48 Work Songs And Hollers.
1. Jimpson and Group - Murderer's Home
2. 88 and Group - Rosie
3. 22 and Group - It Makes A Long Time Man Feel Bad
4. 88 - Whoa Buck
5. Tangle Eye, Hard Hat, 22, and Little Red - When I Went to Leland
6. Buzzard and Group - I'm Going To Memphis
7. 22 and Group - The Prettiest Train I Ever Saw
8. 22 and Group - John Henry
9. Dan Barnes and Group - John Old Alabama
10. Foots - Hollers
11. Dobie Red and Group - Stewball
12. Bama - Levee Camp Hollers
13. Tangle Eye, Hard Hat, 22 and Little Red - Early In The Morning
14. Dobie Red and Group - I Got A Bulldog (Well I Wonder)
15. 22 and Group - Dollar Mamie
16. Bama - Stackalee
17. Dan Barnes and group - I Don't Want No Jet Black Woman
18. Bull, Foots and Dobie Red - Did You Hear About Louella Wallace
19. Tangle Eye - Tangle Eye's Blues
20. 22 and Group - Rosie
21. Bama - I'm Going Home
22. Jimpson and Group - No More My Lord
23. Unidentified Group - The Weather Get Warm.
Disc 2: 1947-48 Blues/1959 Work Songs And Hollers.
1. Floyd Batts - Lucky Song
2. Clarence Alexander - Disability Boogie Woogie
3. John Edwards and Group - Berta
4. Clyde Jones and Group - Poor Lazarus
5. John Dudley - Cool Drink Of Water Blues
6. Ed Lewis - Levee Camp Holler/Interview
7. Ed Lewis and Group - Black Gal
8. Bama - I Don't Want You Baby
9. Grover Wells and Group - Rosie
10. Bridges Lee Cole - Hollers
11. John Dudley - You Got A Mean Disposition
12. John Dudley - Big Road Blues
13. Ervin Webb and Group - I'm Going Home
14. George Golden and Group - Berta
15. Grover Wells - Up The River
16. Clarence Alexander - Prison Blues
17. Johnny Lee Moore, Ed Lewis, James Carter, and Henry Mason - Tom Devil
18. Willie Washington - My Jack Don't Drink No Water
19. Leroy Campbell and Yancey - Sometimes I Wonder
20. Henry Ratcliff - Look For Me In Louisiana
21. Heuston Earms - Ain't Been Able To Get Home No More.