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Subject(s)

• African Americans—Georgia—Saint Simons Island—Music [Browse]
• Folk songs, English—Georgia—Saint Simons Island [Browse]
• Spirituals (Songs)—Georgia—Saint Simons Island [Browse]
• Work songs [Browse]
• Blues (Music)—1961-1970 [Browse]

Host

• Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002 [Browse]

Singer

• Jones, Bessie, 1902-1984 [Browse]
• Davis, John, 1903-1972 [Browse]
• McDowell, Fred [Browse]

Instrumentalist

• McDowell, Fred [Browse]
• Young, Ed, 1908-1974 [Browse]

Performer

• Sea Island Singers [Browse]

Presenter

• Friends of Old-Time Music [Browse]
• Newport Folk Foundation [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Spirituals (Songs) [Browse]
• Folk songs [Browse]
• Blues (Music) [Browse]
• Work songs [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Negro spirituals [Browse]

Notes

• Title from disc label
• Analog recording
• Songs, blues and spirituals from the African American Gullah Geechee community, St. Simons Island, Georgia
• Biographial and historical notes in English by Eric S. Crawford, Nathan Salsburg and Peter K. Siegel (47 pages : portraits) inserted in container.

Time and place of event

Recorded by Peter K. Siegel at a concert presented by the Friends of Old Time Music and the Newport Folk Foundation April 9, 1965 New School, New York City

Participant(s)/​Performer(s)

Bessie Jones, John David & the Georgia Sea Island Singers ; with Mississippi Fred McDowell and Ed Young

Language note

Sung in English and in the Gullah language (Sea Islands Creole dialect)

Contents

• 1. Introduction by Alan Lomax - Travelin' shoes (2:29)
• Dances and children's play songs. 2. Handclapping and cane fife (3:07) ; 3. Buzzard lope (dance) - In that old field (2:12) ; 4. Josephine (1:14)
• Work songs. 5. Goodbye my Riley O (2:41) ; 6. Go row the boat child (1:39) ; 7. Join the band (1:26) ; 8. Sink 'em low (2:29)
• Country blues. 9 . Going down to the river (3:30) ; 10. Shake 'em on down (3:04)
• Bible-inspired songs. 11. Once there was no sun (2:40) ; 12. Adam in the garden (1:26) ; 13. Who built the ark (1:38) ; 14. Let my children go (3:19) ; 15. My God is a rock 94:14) ; 16. I heard the angels singing (3:11) ; 17. Read 'em John (1:37) ; 18. Keep your lamp trimmed and burning (3:32) ; 19. Sign of the judgment (2:45)
• Country blues. 20. Chevrolet (4:22) ; 21. Write me a few of your lines (3:29) ; 22. Don't ever leave me (3:56)
• Bringing it home. 23. Marching on the Mississippi line (3:12) ; 24. Down to the mire (3:18) ; 25. Before this time another year (4:56)

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Publisher no.

• 40258
• SFW CD 40258

OCLC

1437910490

Universal Product Code

• 093074025826

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