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Black Appalachia: String Bands, Songsters and Hoedowns (Deep River of Song) | 
 enlarge | Artist: Alan Lomax
Label: Rounder Select
Category: Music
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Rating:  3 reviews
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Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
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Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 011661182325
UPC: 011661182325
EAN: 0011661182325
ASIN: B00000I5K9
Release Date: March 9, 1999
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| • | Cripple Creek | | • | Christmas Eve | | • | Washboard Rhythm | | • | Soldier's Joy | | • | Old Joe | | • | Arkansas Traveler - Alan Lomax, Traditional | | • | Black Bayou | | • | Banty Rooster | | • | Poontang Little, Poontang Small | | • | Give the Fiddler a Dram | | • | Eighth of January | | • | Introduction of Band | | • | Eighth of January | | • | Skillet Good and Greasy | | • | Devil's Dream | | • | John Henry - Alan Lomax, Traditional | | • | Steel-Laying Holler | | • | Pauline | | • | Track-Lining Song | | • | New Careless Love | | • | The Red Cross Store - Alan Lomax, Terry, Sonny | | • | How Long - Alan Lomax, Carr, Leroy |
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Product Description
\""Traces African American musical activity through the Appalachian chain, from the Blue Ridge Mountains to the hill country of Northeast Mississippi\""--Container.
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Media Type: CD
Artist: ALAN LOMAX COLLECTION
Title: BLACK APPALACHIA-STRING BANDS
Street Release Date: 03/09/1999
Domestic
Genre: BLUES TRADITIONAL COLLECTIONS
Amazon.com
Well into the 1930s, music crossed racial barriers casually through much of the rural South. This Deep River of Song set from the Alan Lomax Collection captures black country musicians recorded in the field by Lomax, his father John, and four others between 1933 and 1946 (when holdouts still persevered). Most of the traditional material was commonly performed by musicians, and enjoyed by fans, of both races. They weren't overly concerned with commercial niceties, as guitarist Jimmie Strothers's "Poontang Little, Poontang Small" demonstrates. The great north Mississippi fiddler and singer Sid Hemphill (also adept at other instruments) sizzles through "The Eighth of January" (which ultimately morphed into Johnny Horton's hit "The Battle of New Orleans"), "Skillet Good and Greasy" (one of Uncle Dave Macon's signature tunes), and more. Even Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee get into the act. This represents some of America's original crossover music. --John Morthland
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 Black timey music November 9, 2004
Tony Thomas (SUNNY ISLES BEACH, FL USA)
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
Too much of the general view of socalled old time music comes from the suburban, middle class people, who retreat to it thinking they are getting to something so white, so "celtic" that culturally they are making the same flight from Black people musically that they have made residentially.
However, we pervade. This is real old time music, the Black music that is at the core and foundation of Southeastern American traditional music. You see it, you feel it, in all its glory right here.
This is the Black old time string band and dance music that was ignored by record companies that only wanted blues out of Black artists and by most folklorists who by an large were only interested in blues, work songs, or songs they in their narrow point of view could directly pin as African Survivals. This is a great broad survey to open you up to the music. After you see this, you will be impelled to search for more. A good help is my own listmania list on Old Time music from a Black point of view.
Last week, I kept just the first selection, Jimmy Strother's "Cripple Creek" repeating on my CD for a couple hours. It was not just the great banjo playing, but the lyrics with real meaning: "Read and Run, Read and Run, don't let the sundown catch you here," Strothers sings from inside a Virginia prison.
Syd Hemphil's recordings here are very important. Hemphil is not just a fiddler, a blues artist, a font of Mississippi folk tradition, but he was a leader in the African quills and drums, Mississippi Hill Country, fife and drum band tradition. Here Hemphil PlayS in a band of fiddle, banjo, guitar AND DRUM! Despite the attempts of the slave masters to surpress the drums for fear they would call us to rebellion, the drum remains integral to this music.
More well known because of the Altamont recordings is the John Lusk band one of the wildest, great string bands, Black and white of all time. I could go on and and on about every one of these selections. However, rather than reading more of my words, you need to listen to more of this music!
Many, including myself, have written about the limitations of John and Alan Lomax in their collection and writing and shaping of American traditional music through lenses they want it to be seen with. However,the more important point is they went out and found this music, recorded this music, made it breathe out to the public by their connection with the initial 1930s folk song movement, and Alan continued that association to his death a few years back!
 wonderful, but for specialists only July 3, 2001
Marc Osborne (Miami, FL, United States)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I like the Lomax disks, I like real folk, country, and bluegrass music, and I usually like less polished music by early, uncommercial artists. Nevertheless, I don't listen to this disk much. The problem isn't the quality of the music, which is high. But it's not just less polished, it's totally unpolished. I think you really have to be searching for the roots of just this type of music to appreciate this disk.
A Treasure Of American Music September 3, 2000
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This Cd represents a treasure of american music and lets one know that what this music really is is a mixture of european and african influences.
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