| Description |
7 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Note |
Original field recordings & photographs by George Mitchell. |
| Performer |
Various artists. |
| Event |
Recorded between the early 1960's and the early 1980's. |
| Note |
Program notes by Sam Sweet with George Mitchell inserted in container. |
| Contents |
Disc 1. Volumes 1-7. Lucy Mae blues ; I woke up crying ; Love blues ; I told you not to do that / Cecil Barfield -- In the evening ; Hey lawdy Mama ; Thousand woman blues ; Blue shadow falling ; Cold rainy day ; Amy / Buddy Moss -- Motherless child ; Hush, somebody is calling my name ; What God can do ; He'll understand and say well done / Leon Pinson -- Big road blues ; Cool water blues ; Big Fat Mama blues ; Take a little walk with me / Houston Stackhouse -- Everyone got a woman ; What she need with a rooster ; Sink or swim ; Prison bound / Big Joe Williams -- Who's gonna be your man ; If I lose let me lose / John Lee Ziegler -- Black woman ; Bumble bee / Othar Turner. |
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Disc 2. Volumes 8-14. Rabbit on a log ; Raise a ruckus tonight ; My three women ; Red Cross store / Lonzie Thomas -- Rats in the kitchen ; Special agent ; Trying to see ; Mail man blues / Sleepy John Estes -- Down home blues ; Catfish blues ; Black Mattie ; Sun don't shine / Teddy Williams -- Trouble brought me down ; My Lord ; Mother is dead ; Lay my burden down ; Your close friend ; I'm going to leave it in the hands of the Lord / Green Paschal -- Hard time blues ; Just want to talk to you / William "Do Boy" Diamond -- Just a dream I got on my mind ; Memphis is a wonderful city ; Down to Arkansas / Dewey Corley & Walter Miller -- Rock me Mama ; Freight train blues ; So sweet ; Bud Grant's grunt / Bud Grant. |
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Disc 3. Volumes 15-22. Go ahead on ; You've been gone so long ; White horses / Bud White -- When I'm sober I'm drunk blues ; Mean mistreater ; Blues around my bed ; Looking for my woman / George Henry Bussey -- Old red #2 ; Jack of diamonds ; Them greasy greens ; Rocking chair / Jim Bunkley -- Old breakdown ; Drop down Mama #1 / Tom Turner -- Search me lord ; My mother died and left me ; Consolation ; Home going / James Shorter -- Better than myself ; Steady rollin' man ; Drink drink drink / Abe McNeil -- Country blues ; River blues / Joe Callicott -- 3 o'clock in the morning ; I's be troubled / Johnny Woods. |
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Disc 4. Volumes 23-29. Someday baby ; Racehorse Charleston ; Done lost my health ; Drive your car / Robert Diggs -- Woke up this morning ; Long wavy hair ; Please come home ; Pole pattin' / Cliff Scott -- I wanna ramble ; Sitting here looking 1000 miles away / Jimmy Lee Harris -- Just like a bird without a feather ; Skinny woman ; Goin' down south ; Poor black Mattie / R.L. Burnside -- Hold my body down ; Trying to make it home ; Precious Lord ; He'll make a way / Robert Johnson -- Sugar mama ; Black gal ; Sloppy drunk ; Decoration day / Robert Longstreet -- Shake em' on down ; Mama says I'm crazy / Fred McDowell. |
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Disc 5. Volumes 30-38. That ain't it ; Gonna lose your mind / John Henry Barbee -- Flat foot boogie ; Mama can I lay it down ; How can you do it / Albert Macon & Robert Thomas -- John Henry ; Goin' up to the country #1 ; Goin' up to the country #2 / Jessie Clarence Gorman -- Dirty dozens ; Won't you send me John ; Wine headed man / Will Shade -- K.C. blues / Will Shade & Charlie Burse -- Every time I come around ; J.W.'s special ; Old hen cackle ; Buck dance / Georgia Fife & Drum band -- Hey Freddie ; Late in the evening ; Punky Tony ; Shimmy she wa / Como Fife & Drum Band -- You got reap what you sow ; Everything's gonna be alright / Maxwell Street Jimmy -- That's the way the good thing go ; Georgia buck ; When the saints go marching in / Precious Bryant -- Pork & beans ; Count the days I'm gone ; Roll & tumble ; Bullying well / Rosa Lee Hill. |
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Disc 6. Volumes 39-45. Good morning judge ; Furry Lewis' careless love / Furry Lewis -- What make grandpa love grandma so ; Have you ever seen peaches / Jimmy Lee Williams -- Hoboing into Hollywood ; Sundown blues ; Rabbit on a log ; You're gonna miss me / J. W. Warren -- House on the hill ; I have to love somebody / Eddie Harris -- Old country rock #1 ; Instrumental #1 ; Who stole the lock off the henhouse door? ; Instrumental #4 / James Davis -- Canned heat ; Nighthawk boogie ; Down by the woodshed / Robert Nighthawk -- Home going ; I want to be ready ; Interview / Jessie Mae Hemphill. |
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Disc 7. Bonus Disc. Miss Maybelle ; When my baby got on board / Jessie Lee Vortis -- Them greasy greens #1 ; Rock and roll to Milledgeville / George Hollis -- Black rat swing / Willie Rockomo -- Tease me baby #2 / Bruce Upshaw & Willie Rockomo -- Someday baby #1 ; Wonder why my baby treat me so bad ; Rosa Lee / Bruce Upshaw -- I got a woman ; So sweet / Buddy Hubbard -- You're gonna miss me ; Mamie ; I'm so lonesome / Ira "Tiny" Coney -- Blood red river ; Sitting on top of the world ; Glory hallelujah / Eddie Hodge -- Jesus is coming back to me ; Bound for Zion / Pettis Sisters -- You told me baby ; Sweet as an apple on a tree ; Juke #2 ; Woke up this morning ; Tell me you love me / Houston & Sara Mae Stovall. |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
Blues (Music) -- 1961-1970.
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Blues (Music) -- 1971-1980.
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Blues (Music) -- 1981-1990.
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Field recordings.
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| Added Author |
Mitchell, George, 1944-
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Barfield, Cecil.
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Moss, Buddy, 1914-1984.
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Pinson, Leon.
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Stackhouse, Houston, 1910-1980.
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Williams, Big Joe, 1903-1982.
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Zeigler, John Lee, 1929-2008
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Turner, Othar.
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Thomas, Lonzie.
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Estes, Sleepy John, 1899-1977.
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Williams, Teddy.
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Paschal, Green.
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Diamond, Do-Boy.
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Corley, Dewey, 1898-1974
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Miller, Walter, 1907-1979.
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Grant, Bud (Musician)
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White, Bud.
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Bussey, George Henry, 1925-
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Bunkley, Jim, 1912-1970.
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Turner, Tom, 1901-
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Shorter, James.
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McNeil, Abe, 1909-
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Callicott, Joe, 1901-1969.
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Woods, Johnny, 1917-1990.
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Diggs, Robert.
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Scott, Cliff, approximately 1929-
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Harris, Jimmy Lee, 1935-
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Burnside, R. L. (Rural L.), 1926-2005.
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Johnson, Robert, 1911-1938.
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Longstreet, Robert (Musician)
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McDowell, Fred.
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Barbee, John Henry, 1905-1964.
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Macon, Albert, 1920-1993
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Thomas, Robert, 1929-
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Gorman, Jessie Clarence.
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Shade, Will, 1898-1966.
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Burse, Charlie.
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Maxwell Street Jimmy, 1925-1995.
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Bryant, Precious.
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Hill, Rosa Lee.
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Lewis, Furry, 1893-1981.
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Williams, Jimmy Lee, 1925-
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Warren, J. W., 1921-2003.
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Harris, Edward P., 1923-1953.
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Nighthawk, Robert, 1909-1967.
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Hemphill, Jessie Mae.
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Vortis, Jesse Lee.
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Hollis, George.
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Rockomo, Willie.
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Upshaw, Bruce.
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Hubbard, Buddy.
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Coney, Ira.
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Hodge, Eddie B.
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Stovall, Houston.
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Stovall, Sara Mae.
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Pettis Sisters.
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Georgia Fife & Drum Band.
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Como Fife & Drum Band.
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| Standard No. |
767981111421 |
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