Title: Folk Visions & Voices 2 / Various Artist: Various Artists Label: Folkways Records Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 093073416229 Genre: Country, Folk Release Date: 2012-05-30 Number of Discs: 1
Beginning in 1977, folklorist Art Rosenbaum traveled around northern Georgia making field recordings of singers who learned their music from the oral tradition. The outcome was a two-volume anthology and a book by the same title. The first half of Volume 2 features "black frolic songs, work songs and blues," to the accompaniment of guitar, banjo, harmonica, and fiddle. The second half features white "string band music, banjo tunes and songs." Rosenbaum's liner notes provide detailed information about the singers and each song, as well as song lyrics and photographs of the musicians and singers.
Tracks: 1.1 Garfield 1.2 Sally Ann 1.3 John Henry (Old John Henry Died on the Mountain) 1.4 Long-Legged Lula's Back in Town 1.5 Railroad Bill 1.6 Good Old Birmingham 1.7 Low-Down Blues 1.8 Market Street Blues 1.9 Leavin' Here, Don't Know Where I'm Going 1.10 Prettiest Little Girl in the County-O 1.11 Stagolee Was a Bully (Laws 115)(Stagger Lee) 1.12 Shoot That Turkey Buzzard 1.13 Mulberry Gap 1.14 Mole in the Ground 1.15 Five Hundred Miles 1.16 Goin' Down This Road Feelin' Bad 1.17 The Dying Girl 1.18 Dawsonville Jail 1.19 Sally Goodin' 1.20 Five to My Five 1.21 Some Have Fathers Over Yonder
