American epic
Music - 2017
A collection from the three-part PBS documentary includes original recordings from music legends including the Carter Family, Mississippi John Hurt, Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers, and more.
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New York, NY :
Sony Music Entertainment
[2017].
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- English
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- Physical Description
- 5 audio discs : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book
- Production Credits
- Produced by Bernard MacMahon, Allison McGourty, Duke Erikson, Peter Henderson, Adam Block ; executive producers, T Bone Burnett, Rebert Redford & Jack White.
- Disc 1. The Southwest: Memphis, Bristol, Johnson City, Louisville, Ashland, Charlotte. The coo-coo bird (Clarence Ashley)
- On the road again (Memphis Jug Band)
- The Panama limited (Washington White)
- Indian war whoop (Hoyt Ming and His Pep Steppers)
- 'Tain't nobody's business if I do (pt. 1) (Frank Stokes)
- K. C. railroad blues (Andrew and Jim Baxter)
- I am bound for the promised land (Alfred G. Karnes)
- Cottonfield blues (pt. 2) (Garfield Akers)
- I wish I was a mole in the ground (Bascom Lamar Lunsford)
- Down on Penny's farm (Bentley Boys)
- Foldin' bed (Whistler's Jug Band)
- Greenback dollar (Weems String Band)
- Tallahatchie River blues (Mattie Delaney)
- Walk right in (Cannon's Jug Stompers)
- Bury me under the weeping willow (The Carter Family)
- Old dog blue (Jim Jackson)
- Bayou teche (Columbus Fruge)
- Cool drink of water blues (Tommy Johnson)
- Train on the island (J. P. Nestor)
- Disc 2. Atlanta: THe origina of commercial field recording. My heart keeps singing (Elder J.E. Burch)
- Ninety-nine year blues (Julius Daniels)
- I get my whiskey from Rockingham (Earl Johnson and his Clodhoppers)
- Death's black train is coming (Rev. J. M. Gates)
- Waiting for a train (Jimmie Rodgers)
- Darling, where have you been so long? (Tenneva Ramblers)
- Rocky Road (Alabama Sacred Harp Singers)
- Ma Blonde est partie (Amédée Breaux, Ophy Breaux & Cleoma Breaux)
- Peg and awl (Carolina Tar Heels)
- Chocolate to the bone (Barbecue Bob)
- Down on me (Eddie Head and Family)
- Prenez courage (Cleoma Breaux with Joseph Falcon and Ophy Breaux)
- Pickin' off peanuts (Dilly and his Dill Pickles)
- Just because (Nelstone's Hawaiians)
- Dupree blues (Willie Walker)
- Ladies on the steamboat (Burnett & Rutherford)
- Mamma, 'tain't long fo' day (Blind Willie McTell)
- Disc 3. New York City, East Coast: The birthplace of electric recording. Cecilia (Cuarteto Flores)
- La coquetera (Los Borinquenos)
- Coconito (Guty Cárdenas Y Lencho)
- Lovesick blues (Emmett Miller)
- Long tall mama (Big Bill Broonzy)
- John Henry blues (Two Poor Boys)
- Mr. Tom Hughes' town (Lead Belly)
- Louis Collins (Mississippi John Hurt)
- I am the light of the world (Blind Gary Davis)
- Fifty miles of elbow room (Rev. F. W. McGee)
- Chant of the eagle dance (Hopi Indian Chanters)
- Hilo hula (Mike Hanapi & The Ilima Islanders)
- If the river was whiskey (Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers)
- Stackalee (Frank Hutchison)
- The wreck of the '97 (Ernest Stoneman)
- Faded coat of blue (Buell Kazee)
- Country blues (Dock Boggs)
- Sail away ladies (Uncle Dave Macon and His Fruit-Jar Drinkers)
- Sail away lady (Uncle Bunt Stephens)
- Sally Gooden (A. C. (Eck) Robertson)
- Arkansas traveller (Don Richardson)
- Disc 4.The Midwest: Chicago, St. Louis, Richmond, Grafton. Hard time blues (Lane Hardin)
- Down the dirt road blues (Charley Patton)
- Poor boy, long ways from home (Banjo Joe)
- Hastings Street (Blind Blake and Charlie Spand)
- See that my grave's kept clean (Blind Lemon Jefferson)
- Gonna have 'lasses in the morning (Golden Melody Boys)
- New Orleans stop time (Bumble Bee Slim and Memphis Minnie)
- Prove it on me blues (Ma Rainey)
- Gonne die with my hammer in my hand (Williamson Brothers and Curry)
- Last kind words blues (Geeshie Wiley)
- Banjoreno (Dixieland Jug Blowers)
- It’s a good thing (Beale Street Sheiks (Stokes and Sane))
- Trust in God and do the right (Blind Willie Davis)
- Someday baby blues (Sleepy John Estes)
- Lonesome road blues (Sam Collins)
- Future blues (Willie Brown)
- Bull doze blues (Henry Thomas "Ragtime Texas")
- Brown skin gal (down the lane) (Massey Family)
- Henry Lee (Dick Justice)
- Old country rock (William Moore)
- La danseuse (the dancer) (Delma Lachney and Blind Uncle Gaspard)
- My black mama, (parts 1 & 2) (Son House)
- Cypress grove blues (Skip James)
- Disc 5. The deep South and the West: Birmingham, Jackson, Hattiesburg, New Orleans, Shreveport, Dallas, San Antonio, Los Angeles, San Francisco. Cross road blues (Robert Johnson)
- Mal hombre (Lydia Mendoza)
- Sunshine special (Frenchy’s String Band)
- Old Jim Kinnane's (Robert Wilkins)
- Les blues de voyage (Amédée Ardoin & Dennis McGee)
- The lost child (Stripling Brothers)
- I’m gonna cross the River Jordan some of these days (Jaybird Coleman)
- Tomi Tomi (The Aloha Serenaders featuring Sol K. Bright)
- Sittin' on top of the world (Mississippi Sheiks)
- James Alley blues (Richard 'Rabbit' Brown)
- The indian tom tom (Big Chief Henry’s Indian String Band)
- Blues in a bottle (Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers)
- Je me suis en alle (Berthmost Montet and Joswell Dupuis)
- Dark was the night, cold was the ground (Blind Willie Johnson)
- E mama ea (Sol Ho'opi'i & His Novelty Quartette)
- Ghost dance (Truett and George)
- Woke up this morning (with my mind on Jesus) (Roosevelt Graves and Brother)
- Allons à Lafayette (Joseph Falcon)
- Corrido de Joaquín Murrieta (parts 1 & 2) (Los Madrugadores)
- Denomination Blues (parts 1 & 2) (Washington Phillips).