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Deep River Of Song: Virginia & The Piedmont: Minstrelsy, Work Songs, And Blues album was released Jul 18, 2000 on the Rounder Select label. Recorded between 1934 and 1942. Deep River Of Song: Virginia & The Piedmont: Minstrelsy, Work Songs, And Blues music CDs Includes liner notes by Kip Lornell, Ph.D. This is part of Rounder's Alan Lomax Collection. Deep River Of Song: Virginia & The Piedmont: Minstrelsy, Work Songs, And Blues songs Deep River of Song: Virgina and the Piedmont collects Alan Lomax field recordings of descendents of Virginia slaves and songs from the racially diverse Piedmont region, where free African-Americans and whites often played music together. Deep River Of Song: Virginia & The Piedmont: Minstrelsy, Work Songs, And Blues album Tracks such as Jimmie Strothers' "I Used to Work on a Tractor," James Wilson's "Walk Down, Devils," Robert Higgins' "Prison Blues," and Willie Williams' "Boll Weevil" trace the development of African-American music, including work songs, spirituals, minstrel tunes, and acoustic blues from the antebellum era to the 20th century. Deep River Of Song: Virginia & The Piedmont: Minstrelsy, Work Songs, And Blues CD music The album also features digital remastering and thorough liner notes, reflecting the care put into the entire series of Lomax recordings. Deep River Of Song: Virginia & The Piedmont: Minstrelsy, Work Songs, And Blues music CDs ~ Heather Phares Producers: John A. Lomax, Alan Lomax, Harold Spivacke. Compilation producers: Anna Lomax Chairtakis, Jeffrey Greenberg. Entertainment Weekly (6/16/00, p. 91) - "... With the great harmonica player Sonny Terry, who'll curl your hair, a young Josh White, and 2 incredible, unknown prisoners, banjoist Jimmie Strothers and guitarist Blind Joe... may their music last forever." - Rating: A
Dirty Linen (4-5/01, p. 84) - "... Another reminder that it's impossible to overstate the value of Alan Lomax' collection of American folk song....  

1 Old Dan Tucker 
2 Corn-Shucking Time   
3 Jaybird   
4 Georgia Land   
5 I Used to Work on a 'Tractor   
6 Wild Ox Moan   
7 Boll Weevil   
8 Po' Farmer   
9 Fox Chase 
10 I'll Go On   
11 I Feel the Spirit Moving   
12 We're Almost Down to the Shore   
13 This Land of Georgia   
14 Can't Hide  
15 Noah and the Flood   
16 Run, Sinner, Run   
17 Take This Hammer
18 Walk Down, Devils   
19 Railroad Wreck   
20 Bitin' Spider   
21 John Henry 
22 Tin Can Alley   
23 Pick 'Em Up   
24 Prison Blues   
25 Every Mail Day   
26 When I Lie Down Last Night   
27 Worried Blues 
28 Going to Richmond

Label Rounder Select
Orig Year 2000
Discs 1
Release Date Jul 18, 2000
Studio/Live Studio
Mono/Stereo Stereo
Recording Time 59 minutes

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