Deep River of Song: Mississippi: Saints and Sinners: From Before the Blues and Gospel

Deep River of Song: Mississippi: Saints and Sinners: From Before the Blues and Gospel

Deep River of Song: Mississippi: Saints and Sinners: From Before the Blues and Gospel
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Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-08-17
Music Label: Rounder Select
Soundtracks:
  1. It's Better To Be Born Lucky - Big Charlie Butler
  2. Stagolee - Lucious Curtis And Willie Ford
  3. Walking Billy - Thomas 'Jaybird' Jones
  4. Mississippi Sounding Calls - Joe Shores
  5. Come Here, Dog, And Get Your Bone - Jim Henry
  6. Emmaline, Take Your Time - Sid Hemphill
  7. Hog Hunt - Sid Hemphill/Alec Askew/Lucious Smith/Will Head
  8. The Fox Hunter's Song - Will Starks
  9. Times Is Getting Hard - Lucious Curtis And Willie Ford
  10. Diamond Joe - Big Charlie Butler
  11. One Morning At The Break Of Day (Wake Up Song) - Crap Eye
  12. Workin' On The Levee, Sleepin' On De Ground - Jim Henry And Jeff Webster
  13. Lord, I'm In Trouble - Joe Miller And Jim Henry
  14. Stewball - Dobie Red And Group
  15. Rosie - Dobie Red And Group
  16. French Blues - Frank Evans
  17. Rock Daniel - Reverend C. H. Savage And Group
  18. Interview - Reverend C.H. Savage
  19. Hallelu, Hallelu - Henry Joiner, Annie Anderson, And Group
  20. I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray - Reverend C. H. Savage And Group
  21. Conversion Experience - Henry Joiner
  22. Let Me Ride - Reverend C. H. Savage And Group
  23. If I Had My Way, I'd Tear The Building Down - Deacon Tom Jones, Reverend C. H. Savage And Group
  24. Little David - Reverend C. H. Savage And Group
  25. Calvary - Reverend C. H. Savage And Group

Music reviews of Deep River of Song: Mississippi: Saints and Sinners: From Before the Blues and Gospel

Music Review: essential music for String Band and Blues and more
Rating: 5 Stars

This is essential music for anyone looking into the traditions of African American music, whether string band, blues, or whatever.

There is so much heritage and so much of the traditional rhythms that have since been smothered out of Black churck music in the interventing years on the religious tunes. There are several of the old Church Rocks and preaching as musical as any song or dance here.

As a string band musician on banjo, guitar, and fiddle, I naturally gravitate to the superb music of Sid Hemphill, Lucius Smith and Will Head in Sledge Mississippi (btw this is the Mississippi Cotton Pickin town that Black CW star Charlie Pride grew up in and wrote the song about). Hemphill is fantastic as a fiddle and a quiller, and this band has a distinct rhythm that no other string band matches.

It should be noted that on the same day that Lomax recorded these string band selections, he recorded a number of selections by the same group playing in a band with quill or fife and drum. You can hear these if you get a copy of the "Traveling Through the Jungle" collection of Black drum band recordings.

It is a shame that nobody has bothered to put all the recordings Lomax and other did of Sid Hemphill, Lucius Smith and their various band mates in 1941 and 1942 and in the 1950s out on one CD and one has to gather different CDS to find them, for example more string band music by this group appears (misplaced in) this series's Black Appalachia recording even though these people were from the hill country of Mississippi and nowhere near Appalachia. Still other string band recordings and solo work by Hemphill and Smith are on David Evan's superb collection, Afro-American Folk Music from Tate and Panola Counties, Mississippi. If you are into banjo Evans collection's booklet, a treasure for anyone into African American traiditional music in its own right, has a great explanation of Smith's banjo style.

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