Classic African American Songsters From Smithsonia - Classic African American Songsters from Smithsonia [CD]
Classic African American Songsters From Smithsonia - Classic African American Songsters from Smithsonia [CD]
Release Date: /// Smithsonian Folkways
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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:
- Bring it On Down to My House
- Talking Blues
- Nobody's Business (If I Do)
- Alabama Bound
- Pallet on the Floor
- Chicken You Can't Roost Too High For Me
- My Hula Love
- Candy Man
- Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
- Froggy Went-a-Courting
- Monday Morning Blues
- The Boys of Your Uncle Sam
- Raise a Ruckus Tonight
- Reno Factory
- Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Bill Bailey
- When the Roses Bloom Again
- Straighten Up and Fly Right
- Careless Love
- They Cut Down the Old Pine Tree
UPC: 093074021125
Label: SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS
Release Date: 6.24.14
Format: CD
