Research Catalog

Title

American primitive. Vol. II : pre-war revenants (1897-1939).

Publication

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

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Details

Additional Authors

Fahey, John, 1939-2001.

Description

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

Alternative Title

Pre-war revenants (1897-1939)

Subjects

• Blues (Music)
• Gospel music

Note

• Title from container.
• Compact discs.
• Program notes by Dean Blackwood and Scott Blackwood (39 p.) inserted in container.

Contents

v. 2. Pre war revanants (1897-1939). 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). 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).

OCLC

• ocm62744773
• SCSB-13589182

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries