Popular Songbook

Artist: The Alan Lomax Collection
Label: Rounder Select
Category: Music

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Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 082161186328
EAN: 0082161186328
ASIN: B0000AUHRE

Release Date: 2003-08-26

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Tracks:

Joe Lee's Rock - Alan Lomax Collection
Do Re Mi - Woody Guthrie
Jesus on the Mainline - Alan Lomax Collection
Midnight Special - Lead Belly
Stagolee - Memphis Slim, Big Bill Broonzy, and Sonny Boy Williamson
Trouble So Hard - Vera Ward Hall
Motherless Children - Felix Dukes and Mississippi Fred McDowell
Sometimes - Bessie Jones
Black Betty - James "Iron Head" Baker and group
Take a Whiff on Me - Lead Belly
Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby - Sidney Lee Carter
Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad - Woody Guthrie
Rock Island Line - Kelly Pace and group
Join the Band - John Davis and the Georgia Sea Island singers
Sloop John B. (Histe Up the John B.'s Sails) - Cleveland Simmons Group
Man Smart, Woman Smarter - Macbeth the Great
Ugly Woman (If You Wanna Be Happy) - Duke of Iron
Gallows Pole - Lead Belly
Rosie - Alan Lomax Collection
Alborada de Vigo - Alan Lomax Collection
The House of the Rising Sun (Rising Sun Blues) - Georgia Turner
Irene Goodnight (Goodnight Irene) -Lead Belly

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Customer Reviews:

The Secret Origins of Moby.......2005-01-12

I already had a passing knowledge of the work of Alan Lomax before I first heard Moby's "Play" album in 2001. But the strangely exhilerating sound of the sampled Lomax field recordings mixed with electronic dance beats, made me curious to find and hear the original recordings. And I've really been meaning to do that -- since 2001. Fortunately, Rounder has done some serious legwork for me: "Popular Songbook" includes three tracks used by Moby for "Play" ("Sometimes", "Joe Lee's Rock", and Trouble So Hard" were heavily sampled in Moby's "Honey", "Find My Baby" and "Natural Blues", respectively), and the 1959 original version of "Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby", which was re-worked and performed in the "O Brother Where Art Thou" soundtrack. Plus a 1937 "Midnight Special" by Lead Belly, a truly rockin' 1947 "Stagolee" by Memphis Slim, and that's just for starters. I have read some rather condescending reviews of this collection from folk music academics, getting all sniffy at the notion of 21st Century radio airplay dictating the track choices for a folk music collection -- yeah, whatevah! For us middlebrow-type music lovers who've been meaning to check out this Alan Lomax guy but never quite gotten around to it, "Popular Songbook" is a good starter kit.

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