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Africa: Drum, Chant & Instrumental Music ©Elektra/Asylum, 1990


1. "Hausa Street Music"
2. "Bounkam Solo"
3. "Kountougi Solo"
4. "Djerma Dundun Drummer"
5. "Tuareg Medicinal Chant"
6. "Lodagaa Wiiks and Gulu"
7. "Songhay Kombi and Ettebel"
8. "Kouco Solo"
9. "Songhay Gulu Drummer"

African Chants and Harmonies ©Rerooted, 2003


1. "Hlabelela"
2. "Thula Baba"
3. "Siya Vuma"
4. "Shango"
5. "Ngongonyana"
6. "Meropa"
7. "Khulumani"
8. "I Hear the Sound"
9. "Silaphanje"
10. "Tshaka Boom Boom"

Afro-American Spirituals, Work Songs & Ballads ©Rounder, 1998


1. "Trouble So Hard"
2. "Choose Your Seat and Set Down"
3. "Handwriting on the Wall"
4. "The New Burying Ground"
5. "Lead Me to the Rock"
6. "The Blood-Stained Banders"
7. "Run, Old Jeremiah"
8. "Ain't No More Cane on This Brazos"
9. "Long Hot Summer Days"
10. "Long John"
11. "Jumpin' Judy"
12. "Rosie"
13. "I'm Going to Leland"
14. "Jumping Judy"
15. "Look Down That long, Lonesome Road"
16. "The Grey Goose"
17. "John Henry"

Atlanta Blues ©Smithsonian Folkways, 1966


1. "Motherless Child"
2. "She's Gone Blues"
3. "Easy Rider, Don't You Deny My Name"
4. "Old Rock Island Blues"
5. "Boogie Woogie Blues"
6. "Death Cell Blues"
7. "Broke Down Engine"
8. "Country Breakdown"
9. "Mojo Blues"
10. "Please Ma'am"
11. "Beaver Slide Rag"
12. "Sundown Blues"
13. "Hard Road Blues"
14. "Daddy Don't Care"

Before the Blues, Vol. 1 ©Yazoo, 1996


1. "Bamalong Blues"
2. "Run, Mollie, Run"
3. "Lonesome Road Blues"
4. "Jackson Stomp"
5. "On Jordan's Stormy Banks We Stand"
6. "Mississippi Jail House Groan"
7. "Forked Deer"
8. "Bye Bye Baby Blues"
9. "Pretty Polly"
10. "Soft Steel Piston"
11. "Two White Horse in a Line"
12. "Jamestown Exhibition [Instrumental]"
13. "Dupree Blues"
14. "France Blues"
15. "Dying Mother and Her Child"
16. "John Hardy"
17. "Wayward Girl Blues"
18. "Newport Blues"
19. "Tom Sherman's Barroom"
20. "Stack O'Lee Blues"
21. "Lawdy Lawdy Worried Blues"
22. "I'll Go With Her Blues"
23. "Christian Soldiers"

Before the Blues, Vol. 2 ©Yazoo, 1996


1. "Dallas Rag"
2. "How Long"
3. "Skin Game Blues"
4. "K.C. Moan"
5. "Just a Spoonful"
6. "Doggone My Good Luck"
7. "There's a Brown Skin Girl Down the road Somewhere"
8. "You're Going to Leave the Old Home, Jim"
9. "Deep Blue Sea Blues"
10. "Cold Morning Shout"
11. "Been Listening All the Day"
12. "Mississippi Boweavil Blues"
13. "I'll Lead a Christian Life"
14. "The Old Folks Started It"
15. "Vine Street Drag"
16. "Nobody's Fault But Mine"
17. "Last Kind Words Blues"
18. "Guitar Stomp"
19. "Jakc O'Diamond Blues"
20. "Reuben Oh Reuben"
21. "Memphis Stomp"
22. "On the Wall"
23. "Roving Cowboy"

Before the Blues, Vol. 3 ©Yazoo, 1996


1. "Frisco Town"
2. "Spike Driver Blues"
3. "Feather Blues"
4. "Fox and the Hound"
5. "A Lazy Farmer Boy"
6. "Pick Poor Robin Clean"
7. "Nappy Head Blues"
8. "Sourwood Mountain"
9. "Levee Camp Moan Blues"
10. "John Henry Blues"
11. "Coming to Christ"
12. "House Carpenter"
13. "Furniture Man"
14. "Alabama Strut"
15. "Kassie Jones, Pt. 1"
16. "Thousands Woman Blues"
17. "Champaign Charlie Is My Name"
18. "Molly Man"
19. "Chicken You Can Roost Behind the Moon"
20. "Little Birdie"
21. "Black Skunk Blues"
22. "Drunkard's Special"
23. "Easy Winner"

Black American Religious Music From S.E. Georgia ©Smithsonian Folkways, 1983


1. "Sweet Jesus"
2. "Gospel"
3. "Lord is Blessing Me Right Now"
4. "Jesus, I'm Thankful"
5. "Looking for a Home"
6. "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child"
7. "Balm in Gilead"
8. "Steal Away to Jesus"
9. "Precious Lord, Take My Hand"
10. "Something Within"
11. "My Father Watches Over Me"
12. "I Heard The Voices of Jesus Say"
13. "Come and Go with Me to My Father's House"

Blues - Music from the Documentary Film by Sam Charters ©Smithsonian Folkways, 1967


1. "Alone in the Evening Blues"
2. "Slidin' Delta"
3. "Old Cotton Fields of Home"
4. "John Henry"
5. "Bad Blues"
6. "Sitting Here Thinking"
7. "Lonesome Ground"
8. "If I Could Holler Like a Mountain Jack"
9. "When I First Started Hoboing"
10. "Weeping Willow Blues"

The Bluesville Years, Vol. 6- Blues Sweet Carolina Blues ©Prestige, 1996


1. "Meet Me in the Bottom"
2. "Baby I'm Going Away"
3. "Mama Where Did You Stay Last Night?"
4. "Baby Please Don't Go"
5. "See What You Done Done?"
6. "Baby, You Just Don't Know"
7. "Hey Mama, Hey Pretty Girl"
8. "What Have I Done to You?"
9. "Callin' My Mama"
10. "Ida Mae"
11. "Trucking Them Blues Away"
12. "Lonesome Over There"
13. "Dupree Blues"
14. "That's No Way to Do"
15. "Weeping Willow Blues"
16. "My Baby Left Me This Morning"
17. "Ain't Nobody Home But Me"
18. "The Boy Was Kissing the Girl (And Playing the Guitar at the Same Time)"
19. "Candy Man"
20. "Tell You Women 'Bout Me"
21. "Whiskey Store Blues"
22. "Take These Blues Off My Mind"
23. "One Thing for Sure"

Carolina Blues & Gospel ©Document, 1998


1. "South West Pacific Blues (Hot Cornbread and Blackeyed Peas)"
2. "Wiggle Round Me Baby (Quincey Avenue Boogie/Can't Go On)"
3. "My Baby Blues (Bad and Evil Blues)"
4. "The Wide Boogie (House of Love)"
5. "I'll Water You Every Day"
6. "Bigheaded Woman"
7. "Big Moose Blues (Double Crossin' Blues)"
8. "Talking Boogie (Talkin' Blues/Release Me Baby)"
9. "I Wonder Who's Holding You"
10. "Mama Blues"
11. "I Got What My Daddy Likes"
12. "Let's Do the Boogie Woogie"
13. "Straighten Them Out"
14. "Another Woman's Man"
15. "I'll Ride on a Cloud With My Lord"
16. "Our Father Loves His son"
17. "Beer Bottle Boogie"
18. "Uneasy Blues"
19. "I Want to Die Easy"
20. "I Really Believe"
21. "The New Gospel Street"
22. "If You Only Knew"
23. "Mother Dear"
24. "The Lord's Gospel Train"
25. "Rumors of War"
26. "Life Was a Burden"

Carolina Gospel Quartets ©Document, 1996


1. "Lily of the Valley (I Want You To Move) - Spartanburg Famous Four"
2. "Go Where I Send Thee - Spartanburg Famous Four"
3. "I Know My Time Ain't Long - Spartanburg Famous Four"
4. "Satan, Your Kingdon Must Come Down - Spartanburg Famous Four"
5. "John, Don't You Write No More - Spartanburg Famous Four"
6. "Can You Make I to the City - Spartanburg Famous Four"
7. "Do You Call that Religion - Spartanburg Famous Four"
8. "John Wrote the Revelations - Spartanburg Famous Four"
9. "How Can You Talk About Other People? - Spartanburg Famous Four"
10. "The Graveyard Is Waiting on Poor Me - Spartanburg Famous Four"
11. "Anybody in Heaven that You Know - Spartanburg Famous Four"
12. "When that First Trumpet Sounds - Spartanburg Famous Four"
13. "New Burying Ground - Shelby Gospel Four"
14. "How About You? - Shelby Gospel Four"
15. "Lord Have Mercy - Shelby Gospel Four"
16. "Take Your Burden to the Lord - Shelby Gospel Four"
17. "What are They Doing in Heaven, Today? - Gospel Light Jubilee Singers"
18. "I Can Tell the World About This - Gospel Light Jubilee Singers"
19. "You Better Run on - Gospel Light Jubilee Singers"
20. "Go Where I Send Thee - Gospel Light Jubilee Singers"
21. "My Good Lord Done Been Here - Gospel Light Jubilee Singers"
22. "Sit Down Child - Gospel Light Jubilee Singers"
23. "I Am in His Care - Gospel Light Jubilee Singers"
24. "Take My Hand and Lead Me on - Gospel Light Jubilee Singers"

Carolina Gospel Quartets, Vol. 2 ©Document, 1997


1. "Good News, the Chariot is Coming"
2. "Lord Send Thee"
3. "Is Your Name Signed Down?"
4. "You're Going to Need That Pure Religion"
5. "I See the Sign of Judgement"
6. "Lord, I'm Goin' Through"
7. "Dying Gambler (O Save Me Lord)"
8. "You Can't Go Wrong and Get Bye"
9. "Let the Church Roll On"
10. "Be Ready when He Comes"
11. "Fire Down Yonder"
12. "That's What's the Matter With the Church"
13. "Leanin' on the Lord"
14. "Climbing Up All Day"
15. "Nicodemus"
16. "Hezekiah"
17. "Moses"
18. "The Kings"
19. "Satan"
20. "Noah"

Earliest Negro Vocal Groups, Vol. 3 ©Document, 1995


1. "Anticipatin' Blues"
2. "He took It Away from Me"
3. "I'm Wild About Moonshine"
4. "I Ain't Giving' Nothin' Away"
5. "I'll Be Good, But I'll Be Lonesome"
6. "Sweet Mama (Papa's Getting Mad)"
7. "Hard Trials and Great Tribulation"
8. "My Lord's Gonna Move This Wicked Race"
9. "Hampton Road Blues"
10. "Lullaby Blues"
11. "Gonna Raise Ruckus Tonight"
12. "My Man Rocks Me"
13. "Hey Hey and Hee Hee (I'm Charleston Crazy)"
14. "Moanin' Groanin' Blues"
15. "Dis Train"
16. "The Welcome Table"
17. "The Tree"
18. "Oh! My Soul is a Witness"
19. "Mother's Religion"
20. "The Old Account was Settled"
21. "God Gonna Set This World on Fire"
22. "Shine for Jesus"
23. "Do You Want to Go There?"
24. "Lord, I Want to Be a Christian"

Earliest Negro Vocal Groups, Vol. 4 ©Document, 1997


1. "My Lord's Writing All the Time"
2. "Shout All Over God's Heaven"
3. "We're Walking in the Light"
4. "Little David, Play on Your Harp"
5. "Great Camp Meeting"
6. "My Lord's Gonna Move This Wicked Race"
7. "Oh Mary. Don't You Weep, Don't You Mourn - Virginia Female Jubilee Singers"
8. "Revival Day - Virginia Female Jubilee Singers"
9. "The Old Arks a Movering - Virginia Female Jubilee Singers"
10. "Lover of the Jesus - Virginia Female Jubilee Singers"
11. "King Jesus is a Listening - Virginia Female Jubilee Singers"
12. "When Jesus Christ was Born - Virginia Female Jubilee Singers"
13. "I've Been a Sinner All My Life - Virginia Female Jubilee Singers"
14. "Wait Until I Get on the Road, Oh Yes! Oh Yes! - Virginia Female Jubilee Singers"
15. "Go Down Moses Way Down in Egypt Land - Virginia Female Jubilee Singers"
16. "My Time Ain't Long - Virginia Female Jubilee Singers"
17. "Baseball Blues"
18. "Sweet Mamma (Papa's Getting Mad)"
19. "Norfolk Religion"
20. "Home Again Blues"
21. "Old Pal Why Don't You Answer Me"
22. "'U' Need Some Loving"
23. "My Jazz Girl"
24. "Happy Boy Blues"
25. "Alabama Blues"

Earliest Negro Vocal Groups, Vol. 5 ©Document, 2000


1. "Shout All Over God's Heaven"
2. "Roll Jordan Roll"
3. "All Over This World"
4. "The Great Campmeeting"
5. "Swing Low Sweet Chariot"
6. "I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray"
7. "Shout All Over God's Heaven"
8. "Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray"
9. "River Over Jordan"
10. "Were You There?"
11. "In'a That Mornin' Oh My Lord"
12. "I Done Done What You Told Me to Do"
13. "You May Carry Me, YouBury Me in the Comin' Day"
14. "Good News, Chariot's Comin'"
15. "Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray"
16. "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
17. "Shout All Over God's Heaven"
18. "Lift Every Voice and Sing"
19. "My Way is Clouded"
20. "Everytime I Feel the Spirit"
21. "Keep A'Inchin' Along"

The Earliest Negro Vocal Quartets (1894-1928) ©Document, 2000


1. "Keep Movin'"
2. "Down on the Old"
3. "Poor Mourner"
4. "Steal Away"
5. "Gabriel's Trumpet"
6. "We'll Anchor Bye and Bye"
7. "The Camp Meeting Jubilee"
8. "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
9. "Shout All Over God's Heaven"
10. "The Bonnie Blues Flag"
11. "Laughing Song"
12. "What a Time"
13. "The Watermelon Party"
14. "Rise and Shine"
15. "The Old Time Religion"
16. "Jerusalem Mornin'"
17. "Oh What He's Done for Me"
18. "Watermelon Party"
19. "Bohunkus and Josephus"
20. "Oyster and Wine at 2 A.M."
21. "Pussy Cat Rag"
22. "When the Corn Pone's Hot"
23. "No Hiding Place"

Field Recordings, Vol. 1- Virginia (1936-1941) ©Document, 1998


1. ""Twas on a Monday"
2. "Oh Lawd, Don't 'Low Me to Beat 'Em"
5. "Can't You Line 'Em"
6. "Laying Rail Chant, Pts. 1 & 2"
10. "Po' Farmer (Poor Farmers)"
12. "John Henry"
13. "Freight Train Blues"
14. "Keep Away from the Bloodstained Banner"
15. "Tennessee Dog"
20. "Corn - Shucking Time"
24. "House Done Built Without Hands"
27. "Do, Lord, Remember Me"
28. "Poontang Little, Poontang Small"
30. "I'll Go On"
31. "Rise, Run Along, Mourner (The Man was Burning)"
32. "Oh Jesus, Let Me Ride"
34. "Blues"

Field Recordings, Vol. 2- North Carolina And South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas (1926-1943) ©Document, 1998


1. "Prison Blues"
2. "Let's Go to Bury"
3. "Do You Call That Religion"
4. "Travelin' to That New Buryin' Ground"
5. "Look Down That Lonesome Road"
6. "Blackberries Flowers"
7. "Deep Down in My Heart"
9. "Finger Ring"
11. "Glory to God, My Son Come Home"
16. "John Henry"
17. "Fandango"
22. "Bottle it Up and Go"
25. "Smithy Rag"
26. "Jumpin' Judy"
27. "Track-Linging Song"
29. "Jumpin' Judy"
30. "Rock Island Line"

Field Recordings, Vol. 3- Mississippi (1936-1942) ©Document, 1998


1. "Calling Trains"
2. "Lead Me to the Rock"
3. "Rosie (Big Leg Rosie)"
4. "Mississippi Sounding Calls [A-1]"
5. "Mississippi Sounding Calls [B-1]"
6. "Arwhoolie (Cornfield Holler)"
7. "Oh, the Sun's Goin' Down and I Won't Be Here Long (Quittin' Time Song)"
9. "Heaving the Lead Line (Calls and Song to Pilot)"
10. "Little Girl, Little Girl"
11. "(Jes' A) Pullin' the Skiff"
13. "The Keghouse Blues"
14. "Interview: How Long, Pts. 1 & 2"
15. "The Worried Life Blues"
23. "Angel Child"
24. "The Carrier Railroad (The Carrier Line)"
25. "The Arkansas Traveller"

Field Recordings, Vol. 4- Mississippi & Alabama (1934-1942) ©Document, 1998


1. "I'm Going to Leland"
2. "I Don't Mind the Weather if the Wind Don't Blow"
3. "Diamond Joe"
4. "Old Cold 'Taters"
5. "We're Goin' Around the Mountain"
11. "Ol' Uncle Rabbit"
13. "Gwan Roun' Rabbit"
15. "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More"
16. "Boll Weevil"
17. "Railroad Bill"
18. "Tilas Mack"
29. "I'm Gwine to Texas"
31. "Ho, Boy, Caincha Line (Lining Track)"
32. "Rosie"
34. "Trouble So Hard"
42. "Poor Little Johnny"
44. "All Hid"

Field Recordings, Vol. 7- Florida ©Document, 1998


1. "The Train"
2. "The Fox and the Hounds"
3. "Alabama Blues, Pt. 2"
4. "Uncle Bud, Pts. 1 & 2"
5. "Frankie and Albert (Cooney adn Delia)"
6. "John Henry"
7. "Po' Laz'us (Every Mail Day; Muley on the Mountain)"
8. "I'm a Pilgrim"
9. "John Henry [A]"
10. "John Henry [B]"
11. "Casey Jones"
12. "Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On"
13. "Out in the Cold Again"
14. "Blues"
15. "Tone the Bell Easy"
16. "Motherless Child"
17. "Frankie and Albert (Cooney and Delia)"
18. "Po' Boy, Long Ways from Home"
19. "A Dream of Mine"
20. "Blues (I Ain't Got No Mama Now) [1]"
21. "Blues (I Ain't Got No Mama Now) [2]"
22. "What Did the Doodle-Bug Say to the Mole?"
23. "Education Blues"
24. "Careless Love"
25. "Uncle Bud"

Field Recordings, Vol. 8- Louisiana, Alabama & Mississippi (1934-1947) ©Document, 1998


1. "Oh Dago (Dègo)"
3. "Rockaway"
6. "Blues de la Prison [French Negro Blues]"
10. "Come up Horsey, Hey, Hey"
11. "You're Gonna Need My Help Someday"
12. "How'm I Doing It, Hey Hey"
14. "Today Is Monday (Everybody Happy)"
17. "Rabbit"
18. "Mister Rabbit"
20. "Go 'Way Devil Leave Me Alone, Pt. 1-2"
23. "If There's Anybody Here Wants to Buy Some Cabbage"
27. "Dangerous Blues"
31. "I Got a Man on the Wheeler (Levee Camp Blues)"
33. "(The) Last Month of the Year"
35. "Noah Built the Ark"
37. "Oh Mr. Dooley, Don't Rest Me"
39. "Susie Gal"
41. "Sometimes I Wonder"

Field Recordings, Vol. 9- Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia & Kentucky (1924-1939) ©Document, 1998


1. "Boogin' Lovin'"
2. "30 Days in Jail"
12. "Pick and Shovel Captain"
13. "6 Months Ain't No Sentence"
14. "Down in the Chain Gain"
15. "Nobody Knows My Name"
16. "I've Been Picking and Shoveling"
17. "Heaven Is a Beautiful Place I Know"
18. "I've Got Another Building"
19. "We're Going to Break Bread Together on Our Knees"
20. "Rabbit in the Pea Patch"
21. "Run Sinner, and Hide Your Face (Run, Sinner, Run)"
22. "Bile 'Em Cabbages Down"
23. "The McKenzie Case"
24. "If You Want to Make a Preacher Cuss"
26. "Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane"
30. "Foldin' Bed"

Field Recordings, Vol. 13 (1933-1943) ©Document, 2000


1. "Dat's All Right, Honey (Texas)"
2. "If I Get My Ticket, Lord (Texas)"
18. "No More, My Lord (Louisiana)"
19. "Wasn't I Lucky? (Arkansas)"
21. "Red River Blues (Mississippi)"
22. "Knock Along Brother Rabbit (Mississippi)"
29. "Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child (Florida)"
30. "Going Walk Around the Jordan, Tell the News (Alabama)"
31. "Dog Caught a Hog"
36. "The Angels Rolled the Stone Away (Georgia)"
41. "God Don't Like It, No, No (South Carolina)"
42. "Pauline (Tennessee)"
43. "Climbing Up the Mountain to Jordan (Delaware)"

Field Recordings, Vol. 14 (1934-1950) ©Document, 2000


1. "Will You Guide Me? (Texas)"
3. "It Keeps On Leakin' In This Old Building (Texas)"
5. "The Sun Didn't Shine Out On Yonder Mountain (Texas)"
6. "The Hold Baby (Texas)"
7. "Have You Any Time For Jesus? (Texas)"
8. "When The Moon Went Down And Vanished Away (Texas)"
13. "Good Evening Everybody (Alabama)"
15. "Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around (Tennessee)"
16. "John The Revolver (Georgia)"
17. "Twenty-Fifth Day Of December (Georgia)"
21. "Heaven In My View (Kentucky)"
22. "When The Roll Is Called In Heaven"
23. "Brother Moses"

Freedom Songs - Selma, Alabama ©Smithsonian Folkways, 1965


1. "God Will Take Care of You, Jacob's Ladder"
2. "Steal Away, Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen"
3. "Come By Here"
4. "Berlin Wall"
5. "We Shall Not Be Moved"
6. "Oh, Freedom"
7. "If You Miss Me From the Back of the Bus"
8. "Wake Up This Morning With My Mind Stayed on Freedom"
9. "Which Side Are You On?"
10. "Everybody Wants Freedom"
11. "Freedom Now Chant"
12. "Got Tell It on the Mountain, Which Side Are You on?"
13. "Oh, Wallace"
14. "Get On Board"
15. "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around"
16. "This Little Light of Mine"
17. "We Shall Overcome"
18. "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round, Freedom, Wallace"
19. "Which Side Are You On, Boy?"

Hard Times Comes Again No More, Vol. 1 ©Yazoo, 1998


1. "Down on Penny's Farm"
2. "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?"
3. "Hard Time Blues"
4. "All I Got's Gone"
5. "Bread Line Blues"
6. "Miss Meal Cramp Blues"
7. "My Name is John Johanna"
8. "Serve 'Em Fine"
9. "It's Hard Time"
10. "All In, Down and Out Blues"
11. "Richmond Blues"
12. "Hard Times"
13. "Georgia Hobo"
14. "One Dime Blues"
15. "Dixie Boll Weevil"
16. "See the Black Clouds A'breakin' Over Yonder"
17. "Down and Out Blues"
18. "Starving to Death on a Government Claim"
19. "We Sure Got Hard Times"
20. "Georgia Blues"
21. "Blues Harvest Blues"
22. "Weaver's Life"
23. "Hard Times Come Again No More"

Hard Times Comes Again No More, Vol. 2 ©Yazoo, 1998


1. "Price of Cotton Blues"
2. "Keno, the Rent Man"
3. "Bad Time Blues"
4. "Wreck of the Tennessee Gravy Train"
5. "The Arkansas Sheik"
6. "Away from Home"
7. "I'n Satisfied"
8. "Got the Farm Land Blues"
9. "Time is Tight Like That"
10. "Weave Room Blues"
11. "Boll Weevil"
12. "Providence Help the Poor"
13. "The Tramp"
14. "Cotton Mill Collic"
15. "Starvation Blues"
16. "Broke Down Section Hand"
17. "Little Old Sod Shanty"
18. "Down South Blues"
19. "No One's Hard Up But Me"
20. "Cotton Mill Blues"
21. "No Dough Blues"
22. "The Northern Starvers are Returning Home"
23. "Them Good Old Times are Coming Back Again"

How Can I Keep From Singing, Vol. 1 ©Yazoo, 1996


1. "My Heart Keeps Singing"
2. "Woke Up This Morning"
3. "Standing on the Promises"
4. "I Can Tell the Word About This"
5. "Walking in Sunlight"
6. "This Song of Love"
7. "It Won't Be Long Till My Grave is Made"
8. "I'm Gonna Cross the River of Jordan Some O'These Days"
9. "My Loved Ones are Waiting"
10. "True Friendship"
11. "Weeping Pilgrim"
12. "Sleep On, Mother Sleep On"
13. "My Christian Friend in Bonds of Love"
14. "He's Got Better Things for You"
15. "God Leads His Dear Children Along"
16. "Coronation"
17. "I Want to Go Where Jesus Is"
18. "The Great Transaction's Done"
19. "Every Time I Feel the Spirit"
20. "Come, Let Us Eat Together"
21. "Bringing in the Sheaves"
22. "Will David Play His Harp for Me"
23. "Who'll Join This Union?"

How Can I Keep From Singing, Vol. 2 ©Yazoo, 1996


1. "What Shall Our Answer Be"
2. "I've Got a Home in Beluah Land"
3. "Rock of Ages"
4. "Weeping Mary"
5. "I Want to Be Like Jesus in My Heart"
6. "He Rose Unknown"
7. "Will My Mother Know Me There?"
8. "Mempihis Flu"
9. "Jesus Is My Friend"
10. "Job"
11. "Hallelujah to the Lamb"
12. "There Is a Fountain Filled With Blood"
13. "Silver Slippers"
14. "Light in the Valley"
15. "Shine on Me"
16. "Oh, Death"
17. "Thou Carest Lord"
18. "My Loving Brother"
19. "Take Thy Burden to the Lord"
20. "Lonely Tomb"
21. "Goin' to Rest Where Jesus Is"
22. "Lonesome Valley"
23. "Prayer Meeting"

I Can't Be Satisfied-Early American Women Blues Singer, Vol. 1: Country ©Yazoo, 1997


1. "Lonesome Day Blues"
2. "Papa's Got Your Bath Water On"
3. "Black Hand Blues"
4. "Going Away Blues"
5. "Mind Reader Blues"
6. "Outdoor Blues"
7. "That Lonesome Rave"
8. "I Ain't Givin' Nobody None"
9. "School Girl Blues"
10. "Dead Drunk Blues"
11. "My Low Down Brown"
12. "My Back to the Wall"
13. "Eagles on a Half"
14. "Penitentiary"
15. "Rolling Log Blues"
16. "State of Tennessee Blues"
17. "Shake It Daddy"
18. "Twelve Pound Daddy"
19. "THe Voice of the Blues"
20. "Be My Kid Blues"
21. "Pick Poor Robin Clean"
22. "Yellow Bee"
23. "Down the Big Road Blues"

I Can't Be Satisfied-Early American Women Blues Singer, Vol. 2: Town ©Yazoo, 1997


1. "Dirty T.B. Blues"
2. "Strugglin' Womans Blues"
3. "Everybody Does It Now"
4. "Pay Roll Blues"
5. "Forget Me Not Blues"
6. "Section Hand Blues"
7. "Good Chib Blues"
8. "Traveling Blues"
9. "Do Dirty Blues"
10. "I Helped You, Stick Man, When You Were Down and Out"
11. "He's Never Gonna Throw Me Down"
12. "Blood Hound Blues"
13. "Dead Drunk Blues"
14. "Parlor Social de Luxe"
15. "Bye Bye Baby"
16. "Winter Blues"
17. "My Own Man Blues"
18. "Jimm Nappy"
19. "How Long"
20. "Trouble in Mind"
21. "Walking Blues"
22. "Mistreatin' Man Blues"
23. "Trouble Everywhere I Roam"

John's Island, South Carolina - It's People And Songs ©Smithsonian Folkway, 1973


1. "Old Lady Come From Booster"
2. "Cherio"
3. "Mama Lama"
4. "Who Are the Greatest"
5. "Dr. Knickerbocker - Tic Tac"
6. "Mr. Postman Died"
7. "Miss Mary Mack - I Want to Go to Mexico"
8. "Shake it if You Can"
9. "Have You Ever Been Mistreated"
10. "That's All Right"
11. "Motherless Child"
12. "He Rose from the Dead"
13. "Easter Mourning Sermon"
14. "Jesus Knows All About My Troubles"
15. "Give Me That Old Time Religion"

Negro Folk Music of Africa and America ©Smithsonian Folkway, 1951


1. "Igane Kamalume"
2. "Shayisa Inkasa"
3. "Music of Boatmen"
4. "Bara Sanabo - Bara"
5. "Bara Sanabo - Bara"
6. "Traveling Song"
7. "Festival Songs"
8. "Bina Adamu"
9. "Ballad"
10. "Ballad"
11. "Jesha Cult Song"
12. "Cowherds' Festival"
13. "Worksong"
14. "Juba Dance"
15. "Nago Dance"
16. "Merengue - Chere Maman"
17. "Gallinita Toma To Maiz"
18. "Lucumi Song"
19. "Ajo Ajo"
20. "Beli Dance"
21. "What Shall I do to be Saved?"
22. "Didn't You Hear My Lord When He Called"
23. "My Name Has Been Written Down"
24. "Move Members Move"

Negro Folk Music of Alabama, Vol. 1 - Secular Music ©Smithsonian Folkway, 1956


1. "Mama Don't Tear My Clothes"
2. "Southern Pacific"
3. "Black Woman"
4. "Kansas City Blues"
5. "Salty Dog Blues"
6. "I'm Goin' Up North"
7. "Little Sally White"
8. "See See Rider"
9. "Mama's Goin' to Buy Him a Little Lap Dog"
10. "Soon as My Back's Turned"
11. "She Done Got Ugly"
12. "Now Your Man Done Gone"
13. "Field Calls"
14. "Father's Field Call"
15. "Childer's Call"
16. "Greeting Call"
17. "Complaint Call"
18. "Brer Rabbit and the Alligators"

Negro Folk Music of Alabama, Vol. 2 ©Smithsonian Folkway, 1956


1. "Trampin' Trampin'"
2. "Dead and Gone"
3. "Abraham and Lot"
4. "Rock Chariot, I Told You to Rock"
5. "I Wonder Where My Brother Gone"
6. "Free at Last"
7. "Jonah"
8. "Low Down Death Right Easy"
9. "Jesus Goin' to Make Up My Dyin' Bed"
10. "Prayer"
11. "Prayer Meeting"
12. "Move Members Move"

Negro Folk Music of Alabama, Vol. 3 ©Smithsonian Folkway, 1956


1. "Railroad - Lining Track"
2. "Texas Sandstorm"
3. "John Henry"
4. "Chicago and Rome"
5. "Challenge to the Doctor"
6. "Draft Board"
7. "River, Creek, Sun, Moon"
8. "The Champion"
9. "Brer Rabbit Tales"
10. "Sermonizing"

Negro Folk Music of Alabama, Vol. 4 ©Smithsonian Folkway, 1956


1. "Animals in the Church"
2. "King David"
3. "Israelites Shouting"
4. "Didn't You Hear"
5. "When You Feel Like Moaning"
6. "Death Have Mercy"
7. "It's Getting Late in the Evening "
8. "Lord, I'm Waiting on You"
9. "Job Job"
10. "Come on Up to Bright Glory"
11. "This May Be Your Last Time"

Negro Folk Music of Alabama, Vol. 5 - Spiritual ©Smithsonian Folkway, 1956


1. "I'm Going Home on the Morning Train"
2. "My God Ain't No Lying Man"
3. "Where the Sun Will Never Go Down"
4. "Troubled Lord I'm Troubled "
5. "Look How They Done My Lord"
6. "Job Job"
7. "What Month was Jesus Born In"
8. "Somebody's Talking About Jesus"
9. "Death is Awful"
10. "The Hills of Mt. Zion"
11. "Low Down the Chariot and Let Me Ride"
12. "The Blood Done Signed My Name"
13. "Everybody Talkin' About Heaven"
14. "Noah, Noah"
15. "Plumb the Line"
16. "Traveling Shoes"

Negro Folk Music of Alabama, Vol. 6 ©Smithsonian Folkway, 1956


1. "Mary Mack"
2. "Bob a Needle"
3. "Watch That Lady"
4. "Old Lady Sally Wants to Jump"
5. "Loop de Loo"
6. "Green Green Rocky Road"
7. "Rosie Darling Rosie"
8. "I Must See"
9. "Bluebird Bluebird"
10. "May Go 'Round the Needle"
11. "Stopping on the Window"
12. "Charlie Over the Ocean"
13. "Session With Celina Lewis"
14. "Water on the Wheel"
15. "Go Prey Ye"
16. "Captain Holler Hurry"
17. "John Henry"
18. "Going to Have a Talk with the Chief of Police"
19. "Meet Me in the Bottoms"
20. "When the Role in Called in Heaven"
21. "I Moaned and I Moaned"
22. "I'm Standing in a Safety Zone"

Negro Religious Field Recordings, Vol. 1(1934-1942) ©Document, 1994


1. "My Soul Is a Witness"
2. "Good Lord (Run Old Jeremiah)"
3. "I Feel Like Dying in This Army"
4. "I Got a Hiding Place"
5. "I'm Going to Lift Up a Standard for My King"
6. "I'm Coming Home om the Morning Train"
7. "I'm Running for My Life"
8. "I'm a Soldier in the Army of the Lord"
9. "You Just Sing for Jesus"
10. "My Lawd So High You Can't Go Over Him"
11. "Please Don't Drive Me Away"
12. "Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down"
13. "Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down [Alterante Version]"
14. "When I've Done the Best I Can, I Want My Crown"
15. "A Charge to Keep I Have"
16. "Im Toling, Lord"
17. "Meet Me in Jerusalem"
18. "When I Lay My Burden Down"
19. "In New Jerusalem"
20. "Steal Away"
21. "The Old Ship Zion"
22. "Little David"
23. "Daniel Saw de Stone"

Old Harp Singers of East Tennessee ©Smithsonian Folkways, 1951


1. "Western Mount Pleasant"
2. "Wonderous Love"
3. "Morning Trumpet"
4. "Northfield"
5. "Liberty"
6. "Ocean"
7. "Greenfields"
8. "Hightower"
9. "Pleasant Hill"
10. "Amazing Grace"

Prison Songs, Vol. 1 - Murderous Home ©Rounder, 1997


1. "The Murder's Home"
2. "No More, My Lord"
3. "Old Alabama"
4. "Black Woman"
5. "Jumpin' Judy"
6. "Whoa Buck"
7. "Prettiest Train"
8. "Old Dollar Mamie"
9. "It Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad"
10. "Rosie"
11. "Levee Camp Holler"
12. "What Makes a Work Song Leader?"
13. "Early in the Mornin'"
14. "How I Got in the Penitentiary"
15. "Tangle Eye Blues"
16. "Stackerlee"
17. "Prison Blues"

Prison Songs, Vol. 2 - Don'tcha Hear Poor Mother Calling ©Rounder, 1997


1. "Don'tcha Hear Poor Mother Calling?"
2. "John Henry"
3. "Strongest Man I Ever Saw"
4. "Well, I Wonder"
5. "Lies"
6. "I'm Goin' Home"
7. "More Lies"
8. "O' Berta"
9. "Disability Boogie Woogie"
10. "O Rosie"
11. "Hollers"
12. "Stewball"
13. "Fox Chase"
14. "Katy Left Memphis"
15. "About Prison Singers"
16. "Rosie"
17. "High Rollin' Sergeant"
18. "Garbage Man (Toast)"
19. "When I Went to Leland"
20. "Prodigal Son"
21. "I'm Goin' to Memphis"

Ruckus Juice & Chitlins, Vol. 1: The Great Jug Bands ©Shanachie, 1998


1. "Low Down Blues"
2. "Giving It Away"
3. "Cocaine Habit Blues"
4. "Try and Treat Her Right"
5. "Glad and Sorry Blues"
6. "What's That Tastes Like Gravy?"
7. "Newport Blues"
8. "Big Railroad Blues"
9. "Fourth Street Mess Around"
10. "Banjoreno"
11. "Tear It Down"
12. "Ticket Agent Blues"
13. "You Ought to Move Out of Town"
14. "Cold Iron Bed"
15. "Bill Wilson"
16. "Cash Money Blues"
17. "Minglewood Blues"
18. "That's My Rabbit, My Dog Caught It"
19. "Spider's Nest Blues"
20. "She's in the Graveyard Now"
21. "Please Don't Holler, Mama"
22. "The Vamps of '28"
23. "Ruckus Juice and Chittlin'"

Ruckus Juice & Chitlins, Vol. 2: The Great Jug Bands ©Shanachie, 1998


1. "Bring It With You When You Come"
2. "German Blues"
3. "Selling the Jelly"
4. "You May Leave But This Will Bring You Back"
5. "Walkin' Cane Stomp"
6. "Rising Sun Blues"
7. "The Old Folks Started It"
8. "Memphis Shake"
9. "Stealin' Stealin'"
10. "Sweet Potato Blues"
11. "R.F.C. Blues"
12. "Brown Jug Blues"
13. "Last Chance Blues"
14. "He's in the Jailhouse Now"
15. "George Street Stomp"
16. "Casey Bill"
17. "Greenville Strut"
18. "Boodle Am Shake"
19. "Jug Band Special"
20. "Smackin' the Sax"
21. "What Makes My Baby Cry?"
22. "Piccolo Blues"
23. "Jug Rag"

Sea Island Folk Festival - Moving Star Hall Singers with Alan Lomax ©Smithsonian Folkways, 1965


1. "Remember Me"
2. "Meet Me in Galilee"
3. "Ask the Watchman How Long"
4. "See God's Ark A-Moving"
5. "Talk About the Sea Island Folk Festival"
6. "Ezekial in the Valley"
7. "Gullah Folk Tale"
8. "Somebody Stole My Henhouse Key"
9. "Blues"
10. "Ezekiel in the Valley"
11. "Mary Rolled the Stone Away"
12. "Moonlight in Glory"
13. "You Got to Move"

Sing For Freedom, Vol. 3 - Lest We Forget ©Smithsonian Folkways, 1980


1. "Up Over My Head, This Little Light of Mine"
2. "Bullyin' Jack of Diamonds"
3. "Give Me teh Gourd to Drink Water"
4. "Been in the Storm So Long"
5. "Guide My Feet While I Run This Race"
6. "99 1/2 Won't Do"
7. "Yes, We Want Our Freedom"
8. "Which Side are You On?"
9. "Brown Baby"
10. "Father's Grave"
11. "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round"
12. "I'm Gonna Say What I Have to Say"
13. "I'm On My Way"

Southern Journey, Vol. 1- Voices from the American South ©Rounder, 1997


1. "O' Day"
2. "Katy Went Fishing With Her Hook and Line"
3. "Walk in the Parlor"
4. "Mama's Gonna Buy"
5. "Wished I was in Heaven Sitting Down"
6. "Po' Lazarus"
7. "The Lass of Loch Royale"
8. "Three Nights Drunk"
9. "Turkey in the Straw"
10. "Pharoah"
11. "Interview: Cripple Creek"
12. "The Diver Boy"
13. "Pretty Polly"
14. "Sweet Roseanne"
15. "Sink 'Em Low"
16. "Dollar Mamie"
17. "I Wonder Will We Meet Again?"
18. "Poor Wayfaring Stranger"
19. "Testimony"
20. "Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah"
21. "The Last Words of Copernicus"
22. "The Gospel Train"
23. "Beulah Land"
24. "It Just Suits Me"

Southern Journey, Vol. 3- 61 Highway Mississippi ©Rounder, 1997


1. "Louisiana"
2. "Jim and John"
3. "61 Highway Blues"
4. "Stewball"
5. "Po' Boy Blues"
6. "God's Unchanging Hand"
7. "Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning"
8. "Emmaline, Take Your Time"
9. "I'm Gonna Live Anyhow 'Til I Die"
10. "Little Sally Walker"
11. "Old Devil's Dream"
12. "Rolled and Tumbled"
13. "Mama Lucy"
14. "Soon One Mornin' (Death Come A-Creepin' in My Room)"
15. "I'm Goin' Home"
16. "Interview"
17. "Fred McDowell's Blues"
18. "Tryin' to Make Heaven My Home"
19. "Berta, Berta"
20. "Germany Blues"
21. "Clarksdale Mill Blues"
22. "If It's All Night Long"
23. "Lord Have Mercy"
24. "Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby"

Southern Journey, Vol. 5: Bad Man Ballads ©Rounder, 1997


1. "Jesse James"
2. "Po' Lazarus"
3. "Railroad Bill"
4. "John Henry"
5. "Wille Brennan"
6. "Hangman Tree"
7. "Columbus Stockade"
8. "Early in the Morning"
9. "Pretty Polly"
10. "Lazarus"
11. "Claude Allen"
12. "Cole Younger"
13. "The Lawson Murder"
14. "Tom Devil"
15. "Hawkins County Blues"
16. "Dangerous Blues"
17. "Po' Lazarus"

Southern Journey, Vol. 6- Sheep, Sheep Don'tcha Know the Road ©Rounder, 1997


1. "Sheep, Sheep, Don'tcha Know the Road"
2. "The Juice of the Forbidden Fruit"
3. "Devil's Dream"
4. "You Got Dimples in Your Jaw"
5. "Drunken Hiccups"
6. "You Done Told Everybody"
7. "The House Carpenter"
8. "Straiten 'Em"
9. "Corn Dodgers"
10. "I Wish I in Heaven Sitting Down"
11. "Tribulations"
12. "No Room at the Inn? Last Month of the Year"
13. "My Mother Died and Left Me"
14. "Buttermilk"
15. "The Prayer Wheel"
16. "Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah"

Southern Journey, Vol. 7- Ozark Frontier ©Rounder, 1997


1. "Bury Me Beneath the Willow"
2. "Anything (With Commentary)"
3. "Willow Green"
4. "Goodin, Sally"
5. "Merry Golden Tree"
6. "Buffalo Gals"
7. "Once I Coutrted a Lady Beauty Bright"
8. "Down in Arkansas Among the Stick"
9. "The Titanic"
10. "The Scotch Musick"
11. "Music Has No End (With Commentary)"
12. "The Irish Soldier and the English Lady"
13. "Turnip Greens"
14. "My Prettiest Little Girl Is Gone"
15. "It Rained a Mist"
16. "Lord Batesman"
17. "Alan Bain"
18. "Eighth of January"
19. "Pretty Polly Oliver"
20. "Rainbow 'Mid Life's Willows"
21. "Cotton-Eyed Joe"
22. "Lonesome Dove"
23. "Nancy's Gota Pretty Dress On"
24. "Rock All the Babies to Sleep"
25. "Down in Arkansas"

Southern Journey, Vol. 8- Velvet Voices ©Rounder, 1997


1. "Run to Jesus for Refuge"
2. "Joe Turner"
3. "The Titanic"
4. "Witness for My Lord"
5. "Dark Day"
6. "Very Same Lord"
7. "Gospel Train"
8. "I Got a Home"
9. "Hey, Hey, Honey"
10. "Menhaden Chanteys/Evalina/Proimsed Land/Bitin' Spider"
11. "Walk on the Bay"
12. "I'm Tired"
13. "Just Beyond the River"
14. "Christian's Automatic"
15. "John the Revelator"
16. "Walk, Billy Abbot"
17. "How Could I Live"
18. "Noah"
19. "Trouble in My Way"
20. "I'm a Soldier in the Army of the Lord"

Southern Journey, Vol. 12- Georgia Sea Islands ©Rounder, 1998


1. "Moses"
2. "Moses, Don't Get Lost"
3. "Turkle Dove"
4. "Adam in the Garden"
5. "Daniel"
6. "Daniel in the Lion's Den"
7. "Little David"
8. "Eli, You Can't Stand"
9. "John"
10. "Sign of Judgement"
11. "One of These Days"
12. "O Day"
13. "Rock in the Weary Land"
14. "It Just Suits Me"
15. "I'm Gonna Lay My Life Down for My Lord"
16. "Before This Time Another Year"
17. "Oh Death"
18. "Goodbye, Everybody"

Southern Journey, Vol. 13- Earliest Times ©Rounder, 1998


1. "Live Humble"
2. "The Buzzard Lope"
3. "Ain't I Right"
4. "Row the Boat, Child"
5. "You Got My Letter"
6. "Riley"
7. "See Aunt Dinah"
8. "Pay Me"
9. "Carrie Belle"
10. "Reg'lar, Reg'lar, Rollin' Under"
11. "You Better Mind"
12. "Everybody Talking About Heaven"
13. "Read 'Em, John"
14. "Union"
15. "Hop Along, Let's Get Her"
16. "Raggy Levee"
17. "Hard Times in Ol' Virginia"
18. "Kneebone"
19. "The Old Tar River"
20. "East Coast Line"
21. "Buzzard Lope"

Spirituals with Doc Reed and Vera Hall Ward ©Smithsonian Folkways, 1953


1. "I'm Going Home On the Morning Train"
2. "My God Ain't No Lying Man"
3. "Where the Sun Will Never Go Down"
4. "Troubled Lord I'm Troubled"
5. "Look How They Done My Lord"
6. "Job Job"
7. "What Month was Jesus Born In?"
8. "Somebody's Talking About Jesus"
9. "Death is Awful"
10. "I'm Climbing Up the Hill of Mt. Zion"
11. "Low Down the Chariot and Let Me Ride"

Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings ©Rounder, 1997


1. "Bonaparte's Retreat"
2. "Rock Island Line"
3. "Pretty Polly"
4. "Pullin' the Skiff"
5. "Shortenin' Bread"
6. "Sea Lion Woman"
7. "Soldier's Joy"
8. "Another Man Done Gone"
9. "Northfield"
10. "When I Lay My Burden Down"
11. "Grub Springs"
12. "Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down"
13. "Iron Merrimac"
14. "Lullaby"
15. "Coal Creek March"
16. "Worried Life Blues"
17. "One Morning in May"
18. "Blood-Stained Banders"
19. "Goodbye, Old Paint"
20. "Lead Me to the Rock"
21. "Glory in the Mettinghouse"
22. "The Avondale Mine Disaster"
23. "Roll on the Ground"
24. "Diamond Joe"
25. "Lost John"
26. "Sept Ans Sur Mer"
27. "East Texas Rag"
28. "Old Joe Clark"
29. "The Gypsy Davy"
30. "Cowzad Kiowa Story of the Flute"

We Shall Overcome: Songs of the Freedom Riders, Sit Ins ©Smithsonian Folkways, 1961


1. "This Little Light of Mine"
2. "There's a Meeting Here Tonight"
3. "Rock My Soul"
4. "Hold On"
5. "Let's Break Bread Together"
6. "We are Soldiers in the Army"
7. "We Shall Not Be Moved"
8. "Your Dog"
9. "Michael Row the Boat Ashore"
10. "I'm So Glad"
11. "Oh Freedom"
12. "We Shall Overcome"





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