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Classic African American Songsters From Smithsonia

Classic African American Songsters from Smithsonia [CD]

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Release Date: 2014-06-24

Drawing 21 classic tracks including four previously unreleased- from the deep well of Smithsonian Folkways archives. This connoisseur collection spotlights songs from ragtime, country, Tin Pan Alley, pre-blues songs, blues hybrids, and old-timey string band. Marquee-name artists Big Bill Broonzy, Brownie McGhee, Lead Belly, Peg Leg Sam, Mississippi John Hurt,John Cephas, and more set the record straight that there has long been much more to the African American secular song tradition than just the blues.

Tracklist:

  1. Bring it On Down to My House
  2. Talking Blues
  3. Nobody's Business (If I Do)
  4. Alabama Bound
  5. Pallet on the Floor
  6. Chicken You Can't Roost Too High For Me
  7. My Hula Love
  8. Candy Man
  9. Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
  10. Froggy Went-a-Courting
  11. Monday Morning Blues
  12. The Boys of Your Uncle Sam
  13. Raise a Ruckus Tonight
  14. Reno Factory
  15. Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
  16. Honeysuckle Rose
  17. Bill Bailey
  18. When the Roses Bloom Again
  19. Straighten Up and Fly Right
  20. Careless Love
  21. They Cut Down the Old Pine Tree

UPC: 093074021125
Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Release Date: 6.24.14
Format: CD

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093074021125

Classic African American Songsters from Smithsonia [CD]

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