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You get 1 track now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
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complete album the moment it’s released.
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1.
Georgia Sea Island Singers led by Bessie Jones - Introduction by Alan Lomax / Travelin’ Shoes
2.
Georgia Sea Island Singers led by Bessie Jones with Ed Young - Handclapping - Cane Fife
3.
Georgia Sea Island Singers led by Bessie Jones - Buzzard Lope (dance) - In That Old Field
4.
Georgia Sea Island Singers led by Bessie Jones - Josephine
5.
Georgia Sea Island Singers led by John Davis - Goodbye My Riley O
6.
Georgia Sea Island Singers led by Peter Davis - Go Row the Boat Child
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Georgia Sea Island Singers led by John Davis - Join the Band
8.
Georgia Sea Island Singers led by Bessie Jones - Sink ’Em Low
9.
Mississippi Fred McDowell - Going Down to the River
10.
Mississippi Fred McDowell with Mable Hillery - Shake ’Em on Down
11.
Georgia Sea Island Singers led by Bessie Jones - Once There Was No Sun
12.
Georgia Sea Island Singers led by John Davis - Adam in the Garden
13.
Georgia Sea Island Singers led by Bessie Jones - Who Built the Ark
14.
Georgia Sea Island Singers led by John Davis - Let My Children Go
15.
Georgia Sea Island Singers led by Peter Davis - My God Is a Rock
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Georgia Sea Island Singers led by Mable Hillery with Mississippi Fred McDowell - I Heard the Angels Singing
17.
Georgia Sea Island Singers led by John Davis - Read ’Em John
Georgia Sea Island Singers led by Bessie Jones - Sign of the Judgement
20.
Ed Young, Emma Lee Ramsey - Chevrolet
21.
Fred McDowell - Write Me a Few of Your Lines
22.
Mississippi Fred McDowell, Mable Hillery - Don’t Ever Leave Me
23.
Mable Hillery with Emma Lee Ramsey - Marching on the Mississippi Line
24.
Georgia Sea Island Singers led by John Davis - Down to the Mire
25.
Georgia Sea Island Singers led by Bessie Jones - Before This Time Another Year
about
Bessie Jones, John Davis, and the Georgia Sea Island Singers gained wide renown during the 1960s and ‘70s for their powerful performances of traditional songs from the African American Gullah Geechee community on St. Simons Island, Georgia. Most in the group were born and raised on St. Simons, and could trace their ancestry to the enslaved people from West and Central Africa who worked on the island’s cotton plantations. Throughout the ‘60s, the Georgia Sea Island Singers were prominent voices in the civil rights movement, bringing hundreds of years of Black musical tradition to bear on a pivotal time in American history. This previously unheard recording captures their complete Friends of Old Time Music concert of April 1965, at which they were joined by legendary bluesman Mississippi Fred McDowell, cane fife player Ed Young, and folklorist Alan Lomax, who acted as emcee. The album showcases a variety of traditional music from the Island and beyond, including stirring work songs, emotionally charged spirituals, jubilant songs for children, and revelatory renditions of Mississippi blues.
credits
releases June 14, 2024
Produced by Peter K. Siegel
Produced in cooperation with the Association for Cultural Equity, Anna Lomax Wood, president; and the Lomax Digital Archive, Nathan Salsburg, curator
Recorded, edited, and mastered by Peter K. Siegel
Recorded on April 9, 1965, at a concert presented by the Friends of Old Time Music and the Newport Folk Foundation at the New School, New York City, on a Nagra III tape recorder with a Sony C37-A microphone
Liner notes by Eric S. Crawford, Nathan Salsburg, and Peter K. Siegel
Alan Lomax's photos from the Alan Lomax Collection at the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress; Diana Davies' photos courtesy of Ralph Rinzler Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution; David Gahr's photos courtesy of the David Gahr Archive
Concert posters by John Cohen
Executive producers: Maureen Loughran, Daniel E. Sheehy, and John Smith
Production manager: Mary Monseur
Production Assistant: Kate Harrington
Editorial assistance by James Deutsch and Carla Borden
Art direction, design & layout by Visual Dialogue
Special thanks to Anna L Wood, Sarah Bryan, and Edward Haber
The Alabama duo's fifth album exults in dusty Americana, showcasing rich vocal harmonies alongside blissful folk instrumentation. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 31, 2024
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The intro guitar riff to Psalm 147 has a "Seven Swans" feel. Then Nathan Salsburg's voice comes in, breaking every stereotype of what it sounds like when an American speaks biblical Hebrew. The harmonies, percussion, and build are fantastic. The whole album has that kind of feel. Listening on repeat. Jonathan Singer
