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Jailhouse blues

Title
Jailhouse blues / 1936 & 1939.
Publication
New York, N.Y. : Rosetta Records, [1987], ℗1987.

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Additional Authors
  • Halpert, Herbert, 1911-2000.
  • Lomax, John A. (John Avery), 1867-1948.
  • Archive of Folk Song (U.S.)
Description
1 audio disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm; 12 in.
Series Statement
Women\u0027s heritage series
Uniform Title
Women\u0027s heritage series.
Subjects
Note
  • "Women\u0027s a cappella songs from the Parchman Penitentiary"--Container.
  • Historical and ethnographical notes printed on container.
Event (note)
  • Field recordings made in 1936 and 1939 at the Women\u0027s 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) (1:31) -- Noah built the ark (Josephine Douglas & group) (0:49) -- Workhouse blues (Mattie Mae Thomas) (1:57 ) -- To be sho (Annabell Abrams & group) (1:28) -- Levee camp blues (Beatrice Perry) (1:12) -- Rabbit on a log (Mary James) (0:38) -- Anybody here wants to buy some cabbage? (group) (2:37) -- Railroad man (Hattie Goff) (0:45) -- Mr. Dooley don \u0027rest me (Hattie Goff) (0:40) -- How\u0027m I doin it (Josephine Parker) (0:41) -- I gotta man in New Orleans (Josephine Parker) (1:03) -- Last month of the year (Betty Mae Bowman & group) (2:18) -- Big Mac from Macamere (Mattie Mae Thomas) (2:33) -- No mo freedom (Eve White) (1:15) -- No mo freedom (Mattie Mae Thomas) (0:45) -- Where have you been John Billy (Beatrice Perry, Leana Johnson & Mary Parks) (1:19) -- Gonna need my help some day (Elinor Boyer) (3:08) -- Susie gal (Edna Taylor & group) (0:34) -- Go way Devil, leave me alone (group) (2:27) -- Make the Devil leave me alone (Mary James & group) (1:40) -- Old apple tree in the ground (Elizabeth Moore) (1:09) -- Shake em on down (Lucile Walker) (1:12) -- Ricketiest superintendent (group) (1:35) -- Penitentiary blues (Mattie Mae Thomas & group) (2:42).
LCCN
88743125
OCLC
  • ocm18641799
  • 18641799
  • SCSB-5489271
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries