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Down home music : an introduction to Negro folk music /

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Music down home.
Corporate Author: Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings
Other Authors: Smith, Charles Edward
Format: CD Audio
Language:English
Published: [Washington, D.C.?] : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, [2001?], 1965.
Series:Custom compact disc series.
Subjects:
African Americans > Music.
Spirituals (Songs)
Blues (Music)
Work songs > United States.
Folk songs, English > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Take this hammer
  • Field call
  • Children's call
  • Complaint call
  • Water on the wheel
  • Railroad, 1
  • Move members move
  • Go pray ye
  • The day is past
  • Prayer song
  • King David
  • Rockin' Jerusalem
  • Just got over at last
  • Mama's goin' to buy him a little lap dog
  • Brother hawk, brother buzzard and brother rabbit
  • I'm goin' up north satisfied
  • Railroad 2
  • Lost John / Sonny Terry
  • Lost John / Prison Farm Work Group
  • I'm goin' to pack up my things
  • Careless love
  • Let me go home, whiskey
  • You're my man (Slick chick blues)
  • I wonder when I'll get to be called a man
  • Mule ridin' talking blues
  • Black woman
  • Old John Booker (You call that gone)
  • John Henry
  • Take your fingers off it
  • 44 blues
  • Sonny's jump
  • Birmingham jail
  • I'm so glad.