Deep River of Song: Black Appalachia: String Bands, Songsters and Hoedowns

Deep River of Song: Black Appalachia: String Bands, Songsters and Hoedowns

Deep River of Song: Black Appalachia: String Bands, Songsters and Hoedowns
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Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 1999-03-09
Music Label: Rounder Select
Soundtracks:
  1. Cripple Creek - Jimmie Strothers
  2. Christmas Eve - Murphy Gribble/John Lusk/Albert York
  3. Washboard Rhythm - Theopolis Stokes
  4. Soldier's Joy - Nashville Washboard Band
  5. Old Joe - Nashville Washboard Band
  6. Arkansas Traveler - Sid Hemphill/Lucius Smith/Will Head/Alec Askew
  7. Black Bayou - Blind Pete/George Ryan
  8. Banty Rooster - Blind Pete/George Ryan
  9. Poontang Little, Poontang Small - Jimmie Strothers
  10. Give The Fiddler A Dram - Murphy Gribble/John Lusk/Albert York
  11. Eighth Of January - Murphy Gribble/John Lusk/Albert York
  12. Introduction Of Band - Sid Hemphill/Lucius Smith/Will Head/Alec Askew
  13. The Eighth Of January - Sid Hemphill/Lucius Smith/Will Head/Alec Askew
  14. Skillet Good And Greasy - Sid Hemphill/Lucius Smith/Will Head/Alec Askew
  15. Devil's Dream - Sid Hemphill
  16. John Henry - Sid Hemphill/Lucius Smith/Will Head/Alec Askew
  17. Steel-Laying Holler - John 'Black Sampson' Gibson
  18. Pauline - Allen Prothero
  19. Track-Lining Song - John 'Black Sampson' Gibson
  20. New Careless Love - Sonny Terry
  21. The Red Cross Store - Brownie McGhee/Sonny Terry
  22. How Long Blues - Brownie McGhee/Lead Belly/Sonny Terry

Music reviews of Deep River of Song: Black Appalachia: String Bands, Songsters and Hoedowns

Music Review: Black timey music
Rating: 5 Stars

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!
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