Folk Visions & Voices: Traditional Music & Song In Northern Georgia - Volume Two

Ethnic Folkways Library – FE 34162

Series: Folk Visions & Voices – Volume Two
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1984
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Old Time
[Tracklist]
A01 Garfield: J.C. "Jake" Staggers (2:48)
A02 Sally Ann: J.C. "Jake" Staggers (1:41)
A03 John Henry (Old John Henry Died on the Mountain): Henry Grady Terrell (2:00)
A04 Long-Legged Lula's Back in Town: Cliff Sheats (3:32)
A05 Railroad Bill: Willie Hill (0:56)
A06 Good Old Birmingham: Willie Hill (2:43)
A07 Low-Down Blues: Neal Pattman (4:11)
A08 Market Street Blues: Joe Rakestraw (2:23)
A09 Leavin' Here, Don't Know Where I'm Going: Joe Rakestraw (4:04)
B01 Prettiest Little Girl in the County-O: Gordon Tanner, Smoky Joe Miller, and Uncle John Patterson (2:21)
B02 Stagolee Was a Bully (Laws 115)(Stagger Lee): Uncle John Patterson (1:41)
B03 Shoot That Turkey Buzzard: Joe, Chesley, and Ralph Chancey (1:45)
B04 Mulberry Gap: Chesley Chancey (0:58)
B05 Mole in the Ground: Joe, Chesley, and Ralph Chancey (4:04)
B06 Five Hundred Miles: Chesley, Joe, Ralph & Don Chancy, Gene Wiggins, Art Rosenbaum (2:35)
B07 Goin' Down This Road Feelin' Bad: George Childers (3:12)
B08 The Dying Girl: Mabel Cawthorn (2:18)
B09 Dawsonville Jail: Ray Knight, Ed Teague, and Art Rosenbaum (3:05)
B10 Sally Goodin': Ray Knight and Ed Teague (1:26)
B11 Five to My Five: Howard Finster (1:00)
B12 Some Have Fathers Over Yonder: Howard Finster (2:10)
[Credits]
Producer: Art Rosenbaum, Designer: Ronald Clyne, Photographer: Margo Newmark Rosenbaum
[Notes]
Beginning in 1977, folklorist Art Rosenbaum traveled around northern Georgia making field recordings of singers who learned their music from the oral tradition. The outcome was a two-volume anthology and a book by the same title. The first half of Volume 2 features "black frolic songs, work songs and blues," to the accompaniment of guitar, banjo, harmonica, and fiddle. The second half features white "string band music, banjo tunes and songs." Rosenbaum's liner notes provide detailed information about the singers and each song, as well as song lyrics and photographs of the musicians and singers.