Music from the South, Vol. 6: Elder Songsters, 1

Folkways Records – FA 2655

Field recordings taken in Alabama, louisiana, and Mississippi under a grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial foundation by frederic Ramsey, Jr. With photographs, notes, and personnels.
Series: Music From The South – Volume 6
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 1956
Genre: Blues, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country Blues, Gospel
[Tracklist]
A01 I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say: Suddie Griffins (4:32)
A02 Go Preach My Gospel: Suddie Griffins (5:14)
A03 Most Done Traveling - Rocky Road: Emmett Brand (1:46)
A04 Give Me That Old Time Religion: Emmett Brand (1:42)
A05 Take This Hammer: Emmett Brand (0:45)
A06 My Old Mother: Emmett Brand (2:00)
A07 Stay, John, Don't You Ride No More: Emmett Brand (1:02)
A08 The Chickens and Crows: Emmett Brand (0:34)
A09 I'm Going to Cross the Rivers of Jordan, Some of These Days: Emmett Brand (1:52)
B01 Riding My Buggy, My Whip in My Hand: Two Fragments: Emmett Brand (0:59)
B02 Singing on the Old Church Ground: Emmett Brand (1:01)
B03 Baby Cryin': Emmett Brand (0:42)
B04 I'm So Glad That I Am Free: Excerpt: Wilson Boling (1:37)
B05 We Have Mothers Over Yonder: Wilson Boling (3:24)
B06 Come to Jesus: Wilson Boling and Verna Ford (2:05)
B07 O Baptise Me John in the River of Jordan: Bessie Ford, Horace & Annie Sprott, & Nellie Hastings (1:21)
B08 Just Over in the Glory Land: Bessie Ford, Horace and Annie Sprott, and Nellie Hastings (3:51)
B09 Father, I Stretch My Hands to Thee: Jake Field, Eastman Brand, and Arthur Holifield (2:45)
B10 Down Here Lord, Waitin' on You: Jake Field, Eastman Brand, and Arthur Holifield (2:09)
[Credits]
Producer, Recorder and Photographer: Frederic Ramsey, Designer: Ronald Clynek
[Notes]
Of Elder Songsters 1 & 2, Frederic Ramsey, Jr. writes, "The mothers, fathers, grandmothers, and grandfathers [have] kept the music alive and burning in the home. There are ways of singing hymns and other songs that are peculiar to the family unit, and to [the] everyday environment... It is this everyday environment...that we have sought to capture in these two volumes."