FOLK Negro Religious Songs & Services 1934-1942 LOMAX
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For your consideration, a complete album of 5 records, “Folk Muisc of the United States: Negro Religious Songs and Services From the Archive of American Folk Song”. Edited by B. A. Botkin. Published by Library of Congress Recording Laboratory. These are 78 rpm records, have a 12 inch radius. All of the records are free of scratches. I would give them an M-/VG+++ rating. They come in the original folder (see photo) along with a 5 page, double-sided printed insert with lyrics for each song published by the library of congress.
Songs recorded by:
Botkin, Benjamin Albert, 1901-1975.
Lomax, John Avery, 1867-1948.
Spivacke, Harold, 1904-1977.
Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002.
Lomax, Ruby T. (Ruby Terrill)
Jones, Lewis Wade, 1910-
Songs include:
- “ Do, Lord, Remember Me” – sung by Jimmie Strothers and Joe Lee at State Farm, Virginia, 1936
- “House Done Built Without Hands” – sung by Joe Lee at State Fram, Virginia, 1936.
- Oh, the Lamb of God, the Lord Done Sanctified Me” - sung by Joe Lee at State Fram, Virginia, 1936.
- “We are almost Down to the Shore” – sung with banjo by Jimmie Strothers at State Farm, Virginia, 1936.
- “Shine Like a Star in the Morning”- sung by Joe Lee at State Farm, Virginia, 1936.
- “Ain’t No Grave Can Hold My Body Down” – sung by Bozie Sturdivant at Silent Grove Baptist Church, Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1942
- “Down on Me”- sung by Dock Reed at Livingston, Alabama, 1940
- “Certainly, Lord” - sung by Dock Reed at Livingston, Alabama, 1940
- “The Man of Calvary” –(Easter Day Service) – spoken by Sin-Killer Griffin, with congregational responses and singing, at Darrington State Farm, Sandy Point, Texas, 1934.
- “Wasn’t That a Might Storm” – sung by Sin-Killer Griffin and congregation at Darrington State Farm, Sandy Point, Texas, 1934.
- “Holy Babe Part I and II”- sung by Kelley Pace, Aaron Brown, Joe Green, Matthew Johnson, and Paul Hayes at Cumins State Farm, Gould, Arkansas, 1942.
- “Meet Me in Jersusalem” – sung with harmonica by Turner Johnson at Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1942.
- “When I Lay My Burden Down” - sung with harmonica by Turner Johnson at Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1942
- “In New Jerusalem” - sung with harmonica by Turner Johnson at Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1942
- “Steal Away”- sung with harmonica by Turner Johnson at Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1942
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