September 11, 2018

Sarah Ogan Gunning: A Girl Of Constant Sorrow

Topic Records 12T171

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
Country: UK
Released: 1967
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist]
A01 I Am a Girl of Constant Sorrow (Roud 499) (1:41)
A02 Loving Nancy (Roud 4938) (1:53)
A03 Old Jack Frost (Roud 4924) (1:11)
A04 May I Go With You, Johnny? (Roud 401; Laws O33) (1:52)
A05 The Hand of God on the Wall (Roud 4925) (2:42)
A06 Down on the Picket Line (Roud 4935) (1:17)
A07 I Hate the Company Bosses (Roud 4927) (4:07)
A08 I'm Going to Organize (Roud 4936) (1:17)
A09 Christ Was a Wayworn Traveler (Roud 4937) (2:58)
A10 Why Do You Stand There in the Rain? (Roud 4930) (1:27)
B01 Dreadful Memories (Roud 4934) (2:27)
B02 Old Southern Town (Roud 4931) (1:46)
B03 I Have Letters from My Father (Roud 4932) (4:12)
B04 Captain Devin (Roud 533; Laws L13A; Henry H792) (1:42)
B05 Gee Whiz, What Have They Done to Me? (Roud 4929) (1:54)
B06 Davy Crockett (Roud 3589) (1:06)
B07 Battle of Mill Spring (Roud 627; Laws A13) (2:19)
B08 Just the Same Today (Roud 4916) (2:58)
B09 Sally (Roud 180; Laws P9; G/D 6:1219; Henry H72) (1:58)
B10 Oh, Death (Roud 4933) (2:13)
[Credits]
Sarah Ogan Gunning (vocals)
Liner Notes: Archie Green
[Notes]
Like other folksingers, her repertoire encompasses a variety of emotions: anger at needless poverty and exploitation, affirmation of self-help as a way of life, pleasure in love, solace in religion, peace in death. Sarah prodigious talent has permitted her to fuse disparate radical elements with traditional forms to create a handful of significant songs beyond the legacy of well-known material left to her by her family.

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