Georgia Sea Island Singers, Mississippi Fred McDowell – The Complete Friends of Old Time Music Concert (Live) (2024) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Georgia Sea Island Singers, Mississippi Fred McDowell – The Complete Friends of Old Time Music Concert (Live) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:35 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Blues, Gospel
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

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 West and Central Africans 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.

Tracklist:

1-01. Georgia Sea Island Singers – Introduction by Alan Lomax / Travelin’ Shoes (Live) (02:29)
1-02. Georgia Sea Island Singers – Handclapping – Cane Fife (Live) (03:07)
1-03. Georgia Sea Island Singers – Buzzard Lope (Dance) – In That Old Field (Live) (02:12)
1-04. Georgia Sea Island Singers – Josephine (Live) (01:14)
1-05. Georgia Sea Island Singers – Goodbye My Riley O (Live) (02:41)
1-06. Georgia Sea Island Singers – Go Row the Boat Child (Live) (01:39)
1-07. Georgia Sea Island Singers – Join the Band (Live) (01:26)
1-08. Georgia Sea Island Singers – Sink ‘Em Low (Live) (02:29)
1-09. Mississippi Fred McDowell – Going Down to the River (Live) (03:30)
1-10. Mississippi Fred McDowell – Shake ‘Em on Down (Live) (03:04)
1-11. Georgia Sea Island Singers – Once There Was No Sun (Live) (02:40)
1-12. Georgia Sea Island Singers – Adam in the Garden (Live) (01:26)
1-13. Georgia Sea Island Singers – Who Built the Ark (Live) (01:38)
1-14. Georgia Sea Island Singers – Let My Children Go (Live) (03:19)
1-15. Georgia Sea Island Singers – My God Is a Rock (Live) (04:14)
1-16. Georgia Sea Island Singers – I Heard the Angels Singing (Live) (03:11)
1-17. Georgia Sea Island Singers – Read ‘Em John (Live) (01:37)
1-18. Georgia Sea Island Singers – Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning (Live) (03:32)
1-19. Georgia Sea Island Singers – Sign of the Judgment (Live) (02:45)
1-20. Ed Young – Chevrolet (Live) (04:22)
1-21. Mississippi Fred McDowell – Write Me a Few of Your Lines (Live) (03:29)
1-22. Mississippi Fred McDowell – Don’t Ever Leave Me (Live) (03:56)
1-23. Mable Hillery – Marching on the Mississippi Line (Live) (03:12)
1-24. Georgia Sea Island Singers – Down to the Mire (Live) (03:18)
1-25. Georgia Sea Island Singers – Before This Time Another Year (Live) (04:56)

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