Deep River of Song: Black Texicans: Balladeers And Songsters of the Texas Frontier
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 1999-03-09
Music Label: Rounder Select
Soundtracks:
- St. James Hospital - Moses 'Clear Rock' Platt
- The Old Chisholm Trail - Moses 'Clear Rock' Platt
- Ranging Buffalo (The Buffalo Skinners) - Pete Harris
- Western Cowboy - Lead Belly
- Western Cowboy - Percy Ridge
- St. James Hospital - James 'Iron Head' Baker
- Jack Of Diamonds - Pete Harris
- He Rambled - Pete Harris
- My Pretty Little Yellow Gal (My Yellow Gal) - Lightnin' Washington And Work Group
- Pick A Bale Of Cotton - Unknown Axe-Cutting Group
- That's All Right, Baby - Mose 'Clear Rock' Platt
- Old Aunt Dinah - 'Butter Boy'
- Square Dance Call (Little Liza Jane) - Pete Harris
- East Texas Rag - Smith Casey
- When I Was A Little Boy - The Angelina Quartet
- Rabbit In The Garden - Ace Johnson
- Old Aunt Dinah - Henry Truvillioin
- Let's Go A-Hintin' (Come On Boys And Let's Go To Huntin') - Henry Truvillioin
- Walk-A-Dolly Walk - Henry Truvillioin
- Fox Chase - Unknown Harmonica Player
- Old Joe Clark - Moses 'Clear Rock' Platt
- Long Summer Day - Moses 'Clear Rock' Platt
- Log Rolling - Uncle Billy McCrea
- Buzzard Song (Old King Buzzard) - Arthur Armstrong
- Boll Weevil - Phineas Rockmore
- Been On The Cholly So Long - Don Mooney
- The Dallas Railway - Will Roseborough And Tie-Tamping Group
- Traveling Man - Phineas Rockmore
- The Train - Unknown Harmonica Player
Music reviews of Deep River of Song: Black Texicans: Balladeers And Songsters of the Texas Frontier
Music Review: "I ain't gonna tell you no lies"
Rating: 4 Stars
I have noticed that this website doesn't bring up every disc in this series with just a "Deep River Of Song" search. In the interest of helping people find these discs here, I'll name every other disc in the series.
South Carolina
Bahamas 1935
Bahamas 1935 Volume 2
Mississippi: The Blues Lineage
Mississippi: Saints and Sinners
Georgia
Big Brazos
Black Appalachia
Virginia and the Piedmont
Alabama
I bought the entire Deep River Of Song series all at once. So many surprises awaited me! Some discs I thought about not buying because maybe I wouldn't be into them, and some I assumed I'd love. This was one of the discs I was iffy on. Until I heard it.
This and Big Brazos are two of the best discs in the series, in my opinion. They are also two I originally thought maybe I wouldn't like. Moses "Clear Rock" Platt is great. I particularly love his Old Chisholm Trail, which happens to be the source for Mike Seeger's Whoopin' Up Cattle on his excellent solo cd, Southern Banjo Sounds. James "Ironhead" Baker's St. James Hospital, which was clearly the source for Doc Watson and Tony Rice's excellent versions (on the Doc Watson and Native American albums, respectively), haunts me. Ironhead is a true highlight of this disc.
This disc also contains my one exposure to "eephing". An odd vocal thing that defies description. In terms of musicianship... guitar playing... Smith Casey is the hidden gem of this collection. His East Texas Rag is sublime acoustic slide guitar. He certainly could have earned more tracks here. I also particularly enjoy Phineas "Flatfoot" Rockmore's Boll Weevil done to a familiar Frankie & Johnny melody.
Of course if you are into American history (the true history, not the white-washed garbage that still gets taught in American schools) then these recordings become all that more meaningful. Imagine a song that dates back to slavery being sung by a group of prisoners in the 1930s, one of the harshest eras within the Jim Crow Era.
I love this disc, but the official review on this site is correct. It may only appeal to roots fanatics. I fear most of it is just too rough for the modern listener who is used to everything being more polished. I just want people to take that into account. I'd hate to recommend something and find out someone was disappointed when they heard it for themselves. If you don't like field-recordings of true real-people folk musics, then this is probably not for you.
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