Afro-American Folk Music from Tate and Panola Counties, Mississippi

Afro-American Folk Music from Tate and Panola Counties, Mississippi Artist: Various Artists
Label: Rounder Select
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 018964151522
EAN: 0018964151522
ASIN: B00004YNC3


Release Date: 2000-10-17

Related Categories:

General General
Related | Blues | Styles | Music
Memphis Blues Memphis Blues
Related | Regional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music
Traditional Blues Traditional Blues
Related | Blues | Styles | Music
General General
Related | Folk | Styles | Music
Traditional Folk Traditional Folk
Related | Folk | Styles | Music
General General
Related | Pop | Styles | Music
General General
Related | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music
General General
Related | Compilations | Folk | Styles | Music
Rounder Records Rounder Records
Related | Specialty Stores | Music
General General
Related | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music

Listmania:

  1. Black string band music read my reader reviews
  2. More of the Best From Rounder

Tracks:

  1. Soft Black Jersey Cow - Napoleon Strickland/Jimmie Buford/R.L. Boyce
  2. After The Ball Is Over - Sid Hemphill's Band
  3. Old Dick Jones Is Dead And Gone - Compton Jones & Family
  4. The Devil's Dream - Sid Hemphill
  5. Granny, Will Your Dog Bite - Compton Jones
  6. The Carrier Line - Sid Hemphill/Lucius Smith/Alec Askew/Will Head
  7. New Railroad - Lucius Smith
  8. Shake 'Em On Down - Compton Jones
  9. Shake 'Em On Down (Version 2) - Ranie Burnette
  10. Black Woman - Othar Turner
  11. This Little Light Of Mine - Ada Turner
  12. He's Calling Me - The Hunter Chapel Missionary Baptist Church Choir
  13. Little Sally Walker - Nettie Mae/Aleneda Turner
  14. Go To Sleep, Baby - Mary Mabeary

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Essential for all traditional music lovers.......2005-10-13

This is a great collection, amplified by the more intelligent than usual notes by David Evans which are worth the price of the CD by themselves. Evans place each performer or group in the real life and times of Hill Country music and culture. He pays good attention to things often neglected such as the Diddly Bow, and gives a very insightful explanation of Lucius Smith's banjo playing.

The treat for me here is the work by Sid Hemphill's band from Sledge Mississippi with Sid playing fiddle on some tunes, quills (pan pipes) on other tunes, with Lucius Smith on banjo and Alec Askew and William Head filling in on guitar and drums on some selections. It is really unfortunate that no one has put out all of Hemphill's recordings in one CD. This great master of both string band and fife and drum band music (and it is said he also led a brass band playing sax!!!!) is just too important to hear across several CDs.

There is too little Othar Turner here, although he has been recorded much more on other labels.

While I may look at this from the standpoint of someone studying Black string band music and idolizing Smith and Hemphill, this is a very enjoyable album. Again, Evan's notes to this album are an important document in the study of Black string band music in and of themselves!

Music CD:

  1. Moonstruck
  2. On a Planet Where it Rains ~ Sherry Lawson
  3. The Women of Kerrville ~ Various Artists
  4. Reflections ~ Butch Baldassari, John Carlini
  5. Beyond Recall: A Record of Jewish Musical Life in Nazi Berlin, 1933-1938 ~ Various Artists
  6. Gaslight Tales ~ Paul Roland
  7. Gypsys ~ Tarabridge
  8. Loudest Whisper 2 ~ Loudest Whisper
  9. Metal ~ Preston Reed
  10. Voyage of Bran ~ Maire Breatnach

Music CD

Music CD

Music CD

Front Parlour Ballads ~ Richard Thompson

Skunkworks ~ Bruce Dickinson

Rainmaker ~ Taraxacum

Further Down the Old Plank Road ~ The Chieftains

Feather on the Wind ~ Golan%C3%A1

20 Super Sucessos ~ Moacyr Franco

Runaway ~ Trance Blackman

Still Waiting ~ Sum 41

Quantum Leap ~ TV Soundtrack

You My Baby & I