American Roots Music
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Box set
CD Release Date: 2001-10-30
Music Label: Palm Pictures (Audio
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- American Roots Music Theme - Ricky Skaggs with Earl Scruggs, James Cotton, and Marc & Ann Savoy
- Waiting for a Train - Jimmie Rodgers
- Wildwood Flower - The Carter Family
- Take Me Back To My Old Carolina Home - Uncle Dave Macon
- Wabash Cannonball - Roy Acuff
- That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine - Gene Autry
- Sitting on Top of the World - Bob Wills
- Uncle Pen - Bill Monroe
- Salty Dog Blues - Flatt and Scruggs
- Nine-Pound Hammer - Merle Travis
- Walking The Floor Over You - Ernest Tubb
- If You've Got The Money, I've Got The Time - Lefty Frizzell
- Cold Cold Heart - Hank Williams
- It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels - Kitty Wells
- Black Mountain Rag - Doc Watson
- Earl's Breakdown - Earl Scruggs
- Little Maggie - Ralph Stanley
- Where Shades of Love Lie Deep - Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver
- Stomping Grounds - Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
- The King Biscuit Time Theme - James Cotton
- Crazy Blues - Mamie Smith
- St. Louis Blues - Bessie Smith
- Black Snake Moan - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues - Charley Patton
- Cross Road Blues - Robert Johnson
- Death Letter Blues - Son House
- Another Night To Cry - Lonnie Johnson
- Foldin' Bed - Whistler's Jug Band
- Boogie Woogie Dream - Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson
- Bye Bye Bird - Sonny Boy Williamson
- Shake for Me - Howlin' Wolf
- Got My Mojo Working - Muddy Waters
- The Thrill is Gone - B.B. King
- Take a Little Walk With Me - Robert Lockwood Jr.
- Henry - Keb' Mo'
- Joshua Fit de Battle - Fisk Jubilee Singers
- Precious Lord, Take My Hand - Thomas A. Dorsey
- Blind Barnabus - The Golden Gate Quartet
- Down By The Riverside - Sister Rosetta Tharpe
- Move On Up a Little Higher - Mahalia Jackson
- Sit Down Servant - The Staple Singers
- Jesus Gave Me Water - Soul Stirrers
- Oh Happy Day - Edwin Hawkins
- This Land Is Your Land - Woody Guthrie
- Goodnight Irene - Leadbelly
- So Long Been Good to Know Yuh - The Weavers
- The Soldier and the Lady - The New Lost City Ramblers
- John Henry - Mississippi John Hurt
- If I Had A Hammer ( The Hammer Song) - Peter, Paul and Mary
- We Shall Overcome - SNCC Freedom Singers with Pete Seeter
- The Times They Are A-Changin' - Bob Dylan
- Allons A Lafayette - Joe Falcon and Cleoma Breaux
- Madame Atchen - Amede Ardoin and Dennis McGee
- Port Arthur Blues - Dewey Balfa
- I'm a Hog for You - Clifton Chenier
- Dans la Louisianne - Marc and Ann Savoy
- Ossun Two-Step - Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys
- Mal Hombre - Lydia Mendoza
- Muchacha Bonita - Narciso martinez
- Rosalito - Valerio Longoria
- Las Nubes - Little Joe y la Familia
- Ring of Fire - Mingo Saldivar
- Sorry Boy - Flaco Jimenez
- Yeibichei Song - Unidentified Performers
- Traditional Powwow - Renzel Last Horse and Kiyaksa
- Jesus Loves Me - Everette Red Bear and Sandor Iron Rope of the Native American Church
- Wounded Knee - Floyd Westerman
- Enchantment Song - R. Carlos Nakai
- The Dance - Robert Mirabal
Music reviews of American Roots Music
Music Review: Gotta Love The Uncle Dave Macon
Rating: 4 Stars
My wife and I had been eyeing this boxset for a few years now and she finally broke down and got it for me this past holiday season. It's a nice mix of country, blues, gospel, cajun/zydeco, tejano and native American. Overall, the box set is excellent. I don't think there is a bad tune on there, but I do feel it felt short on gospel, folk, cajun, zydeco, tejano and native American styles. There's only about 6 or 7 tracks for each of those styles where an entire 16-19 track disc is dedicated to both country and blues. The set should have been 6 discs instead or it should have been limited to just country and blues. Likewise, I felt it strange that an American Roots boxset included no jazz, for jazz is the only true first American born music, which is based on the blues of course. It's a great collection though and I enjoy listening to it every time. The long wait was worth it. I highly recommend it.
Description of American Roots Music
An impressive four-CD box-set primer that collects more than 100 years of music, from nineteenth-century gospel ensemble The Fisk Jubilee Singers to contemporary acts such as R&B guitarist Keb Mo'. Includes tracks from Robert Johnson, Bob Dylan, Flaco Jimenez, Mahalia Jackson, the Staple Singers, B.B. King, Gene Autry and Jimmy Rogers to name just a few. Contains more than 65 essential American recordings, a wealth of photographs and liner notes written by Robert Antelli, Holly George Warren and Charles Wolfe. Deluxe long digi-book with 56 page collector-quality booklet. Palm Records. 2002.These are the sounds of the American melting pot in full boil, a vibrant study in musical and cultural collision. The companion box set to the four-part PBS documentary, this four-disc set skims the cream of 20th-century American "roots music"--music based in its own rich ethnic, geographical, and cultural traditions yet malleable and responsive enough to accommodate elements borrowed from other traditions. The 68 songs here traverse country, blues, folk, gospel, Cajun, zydeco, Tejano, and Native American styles, and while there are obviously huge differences between these songs, it's the similarities that are truly remarkable. Thanks to a cross-pollination facilitated by radio, recording technology, and the highway system, traditional American musical forms bounced off each other like atoms--European tradition met African tradition, urban met rural, Northern met Southern, secular met spiritual, and so it goes. This project allows you to trace each genre's development while simultaneously illustrating its connections to other forms. Like any project of this nature, you can lament all the great music that didn't make it--jazz, in fact, is completely ignored except for one boogie-woogie piano duet, presumably because Ken Burns already covered this territory--but it's difficult to find fault with what did make it here. The producers balance well-known original recordings with 20 newly recorded tracks and nine songs taken from archival film sources. Housed in a stylish hard-bound case and boasting detailed song-by-song notes and great photos, the American Roots Music box makes for a valuable gateway into America's musical heritage and a springboard for further investigation. --Marc Greilsamer
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