Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Fahey, John, 1939-2001.

Description

1. 1 sound disc : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Alternative title

1. Pre-war revenants (1897-1939)

Subject

1. Blues (Music) > To 1931
2. Gospel music
3. Blues (Music) > 1931-1940

Contents

1. Disc 1. I want Jesus to talk with me Homer Quincy Smith -- Deal rag Walter Taylor -- Motherless child blues Elvie Thomas -- Big bed bug (Bed bug blues) Tommy Settlers and his Blues Moaner -- I got your ice cold Nugrape Nugrape Twins -- Molly man (Red Hot) Old Mose -- Black dog blues Bayless Rose -- Workhouse blues Mattie May Thomas -- Bo-Lita Kid Brown and his Blue Band -- My mama always talked to me John Hammond -- Ballin' the Jack The Salty Dog Four -- Friday moan blues Alfred Lewis -- Pick poor robin clean Geeshie Wiley -- It's cold in China blues The Mississippi Moaner -- Black sheep blues Pigmeat Terry -- Old hen cackle Two Poor Boys -- Frisco blues Bayless Rose -- Hot time blues William Harris -- Take a look at that baby Two Poor Boys -- Skinny leg blues Geeshie Wiley -- Little birdie John Hammond -- Little girl in Rome Otto Virgial -- Dangerous blues Mattie May Thomas -- Mean low blues Blues Birdhead -- Be my kid blues Elizabeth Johnson.
2. Disc 2. Last kind words blues Geeshie Wiley -- Poor mourner Cousins & Demoss -- Jamestown exhibition Bayless Rose -- There's a city built of mansions Nugrape Twins -- Cairo blues Henry Spaulding -- Two white horses in a line Two Poor Boys -- Shrimp man (Red Hot) Old Mose -- Don't mistreat your good boyfriend The Bubbling Over Five -- Bull frog blues William Harris -- Purty Polly John Hammond -- Go down Moses Homer Quincy Smith -- Over to my house Wiley and Thomas -- Shaking weed blues Tommy Settlers and his Blues Moaner -- Big Mac from Macamere Mattie May Thomas -- Moaning the blues Pigmeat Terry -- Original blues Bayless Rose -- John Henry blues (Take 3) Two Poor Boys -- Sobbin' woman blues Elizabeth Johnson -- Bad notion blues Otto Virgial -- Eagles on a half Geeshie Wiley -- Mississippi swamp man Alfred Lewis -- Red Cross the diciple of Christ today Moses Mason -- Kansas City blues William Harris -- As free a little bird as can be John Hammond -- No mo' freedom Mattie May Thomas.

Call number

1. *LDC 39857

Note

1. Title from container.
2. Gospel and blues music compiled by John Fahey.
3. Compact discs.
4. Program notes (39 p. : ill.) in container.

Event (note)

1. Recorded between 1926 and 1939, except for the 2nd selection on disc 2, recorded 1897.

Title

1. American primitive. Vol. II [sound recording] : pre-war revenants (1897-1939).

Imprint

1. [Austin, Tex.] : Revenant, [1997?]

Performer

1. Various performers.

Event

1. Recorded between 1926 and 1939, except for the 2nd selection on disc 2, recorded 1897.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Music Division Audio and Moving Image material

Added author

1. Fahey, John, 1939-2001.

Other standard identifier

1. 630814021429

Publisher no.

1. RVN 214 Revenant

Research call number

1. *LDC 39857 Program notes on file