Folk Visions and Voices: Traditional Music and Song in Northern Georgia

Early Mountain Songs, Ballad, & Tunes - Black Religious Singing

Ethnic Folkways Records – FE 34161

Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 1984
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist]
A01 I'm Going to Georgia: Berthie Rogers, Paralee McCloud, and Lawrence Eller (03:05)
A02 The Little Ship (The Golden Vanity)(Child No. 286): Paralee McCloud (02:15)
A03 Cindy in the Summertime: Lawrence and Vaughn Eller (02:19)
A04 Snowbird: Ross Brown and Howard Cunningham (00:50)
A05 Don't Go Ridin' Down That Old Texas Trail: Lawrence Eller, and Vaughn Eller (02:06)
A06 What You Gonna Name That Pretty Baby?: Leatha Eller (02:41)
A07 The Famous Wedding: Maude Thacker (01:27)
A08 Once I Had an Old Grey Mare: Maude Thacker (01:40)
A09 As I Walked Out One Morning in Spring: W. Guy Bruce (01:13)
A10 The Lily of the West: W. Guy Bruce (02:43)
A11 Shout Lulu: W. Guy Bruce (02:42)
B01 Walk with Me: Brady "Doc" and Lucy Barnes (02:25)
B02 Dead and Gone: Brady "Doc" Barnes (02:06)
B03 My Number Will Be Changed: Naomi Bradford (03:48)
B04 Soon, One Mornin': Willie Gresham (05:02)
B05 Brother, You Ought T've Been There: Nathaniel Mitchell, and Fleeta Mitchell (01:34)
B06 I Don't Know How We Made It Over: Brown's Chapel Choir, and Imogene Riggens (02:57)
B07 No Room at the Hotel: Otha Cooper (03:53)
B08 Welcome Home: Brown's Chapel Choir, Imogene Riggens, and Bea Robinson (03:30)
[Credits]
Producer and Recorder: Art Rosenbaum, Photographer: Margo Newmark Rosenbaum, Designer: Ronald Clyne
[Notes]
Beginning in 1977, renowned folklorist Art Rosenbaum traveled around northern Georgia making field recordings of songs learned from the oral tradition. The outcome was a two-volume anthology and a book by the same title. The first half of Volume 1 features "early mountain songs, ballads and tunes" ranging from ancient British ballads to more recent breakdowns and love songs. The second half presents "black religious singing" (traditional spirituals), some of which are recorded in a local church. Rosenbaum's liner notes provide detailed information about the singers and each song, as well as complete lyrics and photographs of the musicians and singers.