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Mr. Ghost Goes To Town

Wonder What Tomorrow Gonna Bring (Rerun)

10:00am, 11-6-2021
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A collection of American field recordings, primarily made by John and/or Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress. The majority of the recordings were made during Alan Lomax's trip around the American South in 1959, and a few of them were made from John's southern trips in the '30s and '40s. 

Some of the performers had previously recorded commercially in decades past, while other recordings capture amateur musicians at church and other social settings.  


In 1959 and 1960, Alan Lomax revisited the American South after 10 years abroad to record the still-living stream of traditional music in newly developed stereo sound. The collection features some of the region’s most representative musicians and styles: Delta blues guitarists, fife-and-drum ensembles, Sacred Harp singers, Ozark and Appalachian ballad singers, and prison work gangs. Performers include Sidney Carter, Vera Ward Hall, Sid and Rose Hemphill, Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers, Wade Ward, Willie Jones, J. E. Mainer, Neal Morris, E. C. Ball, Almeda Riddle, Hobart Smith, Ed Young, and Mississippi Fred McDowell (his first recordings). English folksinger Shirley Collins assisted Alan Lomax on the 1959 trip, and his daughter, Anna, accompanied him on the 1960 trip. 
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  • 10:02am Rock Me, Shake Me (Lula, MS 1942) by Manuel Casey on Field Recordings Vol. 15 (Document)
  • 10:06am Blues (Virginia, 1936) by Big Boy on Field Recordings Vol. 1: Virginia (Document)
  • 10:11am Kill It Kid Rag (Atlanta, 1940) by Blind Willie McTell on Tryin' To Get Home - 1940 Library Of Congress Recordings (Document )
  • 10:13am If It's All Night Long (Como, MS 1959) by Bob & Miles Pratcher on Alan Lomax Recordings: Southern U.S. 1959 and 1960 (-)
  • 10:17am Adam in the Garden (St. Simons Island, GA 1959) by Georgia Sea Island Singers on Alan Lomax Recordings: Southern U.S. 1959 and 1960 (-)
  • 10:19am Trials, Troubles, Tribulations (Rugby, VA 1959) by E.C. Ball on Alan Lomax Recordings: Southern U.S. 1959 and 1960 (-)
  • 10:21am Wild Ox Moan (Livingston, AL 1959) by Vera Ward Hall on Alan Lomax Recordings: Southern U.S. 1959 and 1960 (-)
  • 10:22am Drop Down Mama (Como, MS 1959) by Mississippi Fred McDowell on Alan Lomax Recordings: Southern U.S. 1959 and 1960 (-)
  • 10:25am Old Aunt Dinah by Butter Boy on Deep River of Song: Black Texicans: Balladeers And Songsters of the Texas Frontier (Rounder )
  • 10:27am Railroad Bill (Bluefield, VA 1959) by Hobart Smith on Alan Lomax Recordings: Southern U.S. 1959 and 1960 (-)
  • 10:29am A Joke Told By Texas Gladden by Texas Gladden on Alan Lomax Recordings: Southern U.S. 1959 and 1960 (-)
  • 10:30am Three Nights Drunk (Concord, NC) by J.E. Mainer & The Mountaineers on Alan Lomax Recordings: Southern U.S. 1959 and 1960 (-)
  • 10:32am Wonder What Tomorrow Gonna Bring (Harmontown, MS 1959) by Members of the Free Springs Methodist Church on Alan Lomax Recordings: Southern U.S. 1959 and 1960 (-)
  • 10:33am There Is Not a Friend Like Jesus (Hart Temple, Memphis, TN 1959) by Annie Mae Clayton on Alan Lomax Recordings: Southern U.S. 1959 and 1960 (-)
  • 10:36am Catin Prie Donc Pour Ton Negre (Angola, LA 1934) by Oakdale Carriere on Field Recordings Vol. 8 (Document )
  • 10:38am Jenny Jenkins (Rugby, VA 1959) by E.C. Ball and Orna Ball on Alan Lomax Recordings: Southern U.S. 1959 and 1960 (-)
  • 10:41am O Mary Don't You Weep (St. Simons Island, GA 1959) by Georgia Sea Island Singers on Alan Lomax Recordings: Southern U.S. 1959 and 1960 (-)
  • 10:42am Buzzard Song (Old King Buzzard) (Jasper, TX 1940) by Arthur Armstrong on Deep River of Song: Black Texicans: Balladeers And Songsters of the Texas Frontier (Rounder )
  • 10:44am Corn Dodgers (Timbo, AR 1959) by Neal Morris on Alan Lomax Recordings: Southern U.S. 1959 and 1960 (-)
  • 10:47am No Mo' Freedom (Parchman, MS 1939) by Mattie May Thomas on Alan Lomax Recordings: Southern U.S. 1959 and 1960 (-)
  • 10:48am Dis Ol' Hammer (Virginia State Penitentiary, 1936) by Jimmie Strothers on Field Recordings Vol. 1: Virginia (Document )
  • 10:50am When the Roll is Called in Heaven by Star Gazers on Field Recordings Vol. 14 (Document )
  • 10:52am Hold On to God's Unchanging Hand (Tyro, MS) by Anderson Burton & Congregation on Alan Lomax Recordings: Southern U.S. 1959 and 1960 (-)
  • 10:53am It Just Suits Me (That Suits Me) (St. Simons Island, GA 1960) by John Davis, Bessie Jones, Emma Ramsay, Hobart Smith on Alan Lomax Recordings: Southern U.S. 1959 and 1960 (-)
  • 10:58am Dead and Gone (Zachary, LA 1960) by Butch Cage & Willie B. Thomas on Country Negro Jam Session (Arhoolie)
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