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Thread #113584   Message #2416957
Posted By: Barry Finn
18-Aug-08 - 01:08 PM
Thread Name: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups
Subject: RE: Favorite Songs by Black Singers/Groups
Anything done by the Manhaden Chanteymen or the Northern Neck Chanteymen

Anything done by the Birmingham Lining Bar Gang

Any thing in the Lomax collection on Prison Worksongs
Bruce Jackson's CD/collection of prison worksongs "Wake Up Dead Man"
Both Jackson & Lomax are out on Rounder

"Afro-American Spirituals, Work Songs & Ballads" various groups also out on Rounder

"Negro Work Songs & Calls" again out on Rounder, various groups

Virginia Traditions/Virginia Work Songs out on Global Village CD1007. Various groups

"Deep River of Song/Black Texans-Balladeers & Songsters of the Texas Frontier", out on Rounder, various Black cowboys & work groups & cowboy songs (Lomax collection)

Deep River of Song/Bahamas 1935-Chanteys & Anthems from Andros & Cat Island" (Lomax Collection

"Peter Was A Fisherman" 1939 Trinidad Field Recordings of Melville & Francis Herskovits out on Rounder CD 1114

Barry