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Roots music an American journey.
Title:
Roots music an American journey.
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Mass. : Rounder, [2001]

℗2001
Physical Description:
4 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([50] pages : portraits ; 13 cm)
General Note:
Rounder: 11661-0501-2 (11661-0502-2, 11661-0503-2, 11661-0504-2, 11661-0505-2).

Compact discs.

Notes by Scott Billington, with complete personnel credits, in accompanying booklet.
Language:
English
Contents:
Disc 1. Tennessee mountain fox chase (Norman Blake) -- Banjo picking girl (Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard) -- Old corn liquor (Joe Thompson) -- Rain and snow (Suzanne Thomas (Dry Branch Fire Squad)) -- The orphan child (Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin) -- Working on a building (The Johnson Mountain Boys) -- You better mind (Bessie Jones) -- Dry bones (The Persuasions) -- Did you hear John Hurt? (Dave Van Ronk) -- One-dime blues (Etta Baker) -- All the way from East St. Louis (Mississippi Fred McDowell) -- Juke medley (Robert Nighthawk, Carey Bell) -- Black's ball (J.B. Hutto & the New Hawks) -- Just a little while to stay here (The Rebirth Brass Band) -- Iko, Iko (Bo Dollis & the Wild Magnolias) -- Mai kai no Kauai (Tau Moe Family) -- Texas Cowboy (Glenn Ohrlin) -- Streets of Laredo (Brownie Ford).

Disc 2. Lacassine special (Balfa Brothers) -- Ti galop pour Mamou (D.L. Menard) -- Dimanche après-midi (Chris Ardoin & Double Clutchin') -- Père et garçon zydeco (John and Geno Delafose) -- Oh bye mon neg (Boozoo Chavis) -- Zulema waltz (Santiago Jimenez, Jr.) -- El ahualulco (Los pregoneros del Puerto) -- Ven (Come to me) (Los Cachorros) -- Reels. Catherine McEvoy's ; Arklow Mountains (Liz Carroll & James Keane, Jr.) -- Silver star hornpipe ; Karen's reel ; Temperance reel (Joe Cormier) -- Long journey home (J.D. Crowe & the New South) -- Leavin' (James King) -- Old folks at home (Vern Williams) -- Nobody's business (The Freight Hoppers) -- All around the world (James Booker) -- Frankie and Johnny (Tuts Washington)) -- Yancey's bugle call (Preacher Jack) -- Bottle up and go (Sleepy LaBeef).

Disc 3. Friend of the devil (Rice, Rice, Hillman & Pedersen) -- Every time you say goodbye (Alison Krauss & Union Station) -- Man of constant sorrow (Tony Furtado with Tim O'Brien) -- Crossfire (Bela Fleck) -- You're in my heart (Rhonda Vincent) -- Second wind (Claire Lynch) -- Black dog (Ray Wylie Hubbard) -- Graveside song (Stevens Sisters) -- Oh death (Tarbox Ramblers) -- You can't hold on to a love that's gone (The Holmes Brothers) -- This time I'm gone for good (Johnny Adams) -- Down the road (Marcia Ball) --Think it over one more time (Buckwheat Zydeco) -- Just one kiss (Beau Jocque and the Zydeco Hi-Rollers) -- La danse de Mardi Gras (Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys) -- Chez Seychelles.

Disc 4. Frosty (Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown) -- Funkyard (Walter "Wolfman" Washington)) -- Doyne ; Freylekhs (Klezmer Conservatory Band) -- Somos boricuas (We are Puerto Rican) (Los Pleneros de la 21) -- Hey little love (Tish Hinojosa) -- El año viejo (The Blazers) -- All just to get to you (Joe Ely) -- One endless night (Jimmie Dale Gilmore) -- Nebraska (The Cash Brothers)) -- Uniform grey (Sarah Harmer) -- Broke down (Slaid Cleaves) -- Birches (Bill Morrissey) -- More than a paycheck (Sweet Honey in the Rock) -- Swing low sweet chariot (IIIrd Tyme Out) -- Flamenco fling (Natalie MacMaster) -- Ashokan farewell (Fiddle fever).
Format :
Music CD