Research Catalog

Title

Jailhouse blues [sound recording] : 1936 & 1939 / producer, Rosetta Reitz.

Publication

New York, N.Y. : Rosetta Records, p1987.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Halpert, Herbert.
• Lomax, John Avery, 1867-1948.
• Reitz, Rosetta.
• Archive of Folk Song (U.S.)
• Rosetta Records (Firm)

Description

1 sound disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm; 12 in.

Series Statement

Women's heritage series

Subject

• Blues (Music) > Mississippi > 1931-1940
• African Americans > Mississippi > Music
• Women prisoners > Mississippi > Songs and music
• Folk music > Mississippi
• Folk songs, English > Mississippi

Note

• "Women's a cappella songs from the Parchman Penitentiary"--Container.
• Historical and ethnographical notes on container.

Event (note)

• Field recordings made in 1936 and 1939 at the Women's Camp, Mississippi State Penal Farm, Parchman, by Herbert Halpert and John A. Lomax, for the Archive of Folk Song in the Library of Congress.

Contents

Dangerous blues (Mattie Mae Thomas) -- Noah built the ark (Josephine Douglas & group) -- Workhouse blues (Mattie Mae Thomas) --To be sho (Annabell Abrams & group) -- Levee camp blues (Beatrice Perry) -- Rabbit on a log (Mary James) -- Anybody here wants to buy some cabbage (group) -- Railroad man (Hattie Goff) -- Mr. Dooley don 'rest me (Hattie Goff) -- How'm I doin it (Josephine Parker) -- I gotta man in New Orleans (Josephine Parker) -- Last month of the year (Betty Mae Bowman & group) -- Big Mac from Macamere (Mattie Mae Thomas) -- No mo freedom (Eve White) -- No mo freedom (Mattie Mae Thomas) -- Where have you been John Billy (Beatrice Perry, Leana Johnson & Mary Parks) -- Gonna need my help some day (Elinor Boyer) -- Susie gal (Edna Taylor & group) -- Go way Devil, leave me alone (group) -- Make the Devil leave me alone (Mary James & group) -- Old apple tree in the ground (Elizabeth Moore) -- Shake em on down (Lucile Walker) -- Ricketiest superintendent (group) -- Penitentiary blues (Mattie Mae Thomas & group).

Call Number

Sc Audio RE-8331

LCCN

88743125 /R/r91

OCLC

NYPG99-R23

Title

Jailhouse blues [sound recording] : 1936 & 1939 / producer, Rosetta Reitz.

Imprint

New York, N.Y. : Rosetta Records, p1987.

Series

Women's heritage series

Event

Field recordings made in 1936 and 1939 at the Women's Camp, Mississippi State Penal Farm, Parchman, by Herbert Halpert and John A. Lomax, for the Archive of Folk Song in the Library of Congress.

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Added Author

Halpert, Herbert.

Lomax, John Avery, 1867-1948.

Reitz, Rosetta. Producer

Archive of Folk Song (U.S.)

Rosetta Records (Firm)

Publisher No.

RR 1316 Rosetta Records

Research Call Number

Sc Audio RE-8331