Various Artists – Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack Mccormick, 1958–1971 (2023) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

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Various Artists – Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack Mccormick, 1958–1971 (2023)
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In the 1950s and 60s, the blues was the dominant form of Black vernacular music throughout Texas and the surrounding areas. In segregated neighborhoods, community members gathered in saloons, dancehalls, and each other’s homes to hear their neighbors sing their stories of sorrow, heartbreak, jubilation, and triumph. Robert “Mack” McCormick, an academically untrained but fanatical devotee of the blues, stepped into this world and became one of its most devout advocates and documentarians. By photographing Black and Latino Texans and their neighborhoods, as well as recording and interviewing musicians,many of whom never stepped foot into a proper recording studio, McCormick endeared and eventually embedded himself into these communities. By the time he died in 2015, McCormick had amassed a collection of 590 reels of sound recordings and 165 boxes of manuscripts, original interviews and research notes, thousands of photographs and negatives, playbills, and posters. Because McCormick never published or released most of these materials, his collection became a thing of legend and intense speculation among scholars, blues aficionados, and musicians alike. ‘Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick, 1958-1971′ is the first compilation of music drawn from this fabled collection, which indelibly documents a pivotal moment in African American history. It features never-before-heard performances not only from musicians who became icons in their own right,including Lightnin’ Hopkins and Mance Lipscomb, but also, crucially, performers whose names may be unfamiliar to even the most devoted blues fans and scholars. Newly mastered recordings and accompanying photographs bring to life many of these forgotten figures: offering insight into their lives and illuminating in new, enlightening ways their joys and anguish, deep social connections, distinctive voices, and cultural networks. The collection spans gospel, ragtime, country blues dirges, the unclassifiable music of George “Bongo Joe” Coleman, and more, showing that no community, no matter how tight knit, is monolithic. Accompanying the music is a 128-page book, which contains breathtaking photographs by McCormick and his associates, as well as contextual essays by producers Jeff Place and John Troutman on McCormick’s life, and by musicians Mark Puryear and Dom Flemons on some of the marginalized communities throughout “Greater Texas” to which McCormick devoted his life’s work. This release is a partnership with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

Tracklist:

1-1. Lightnin’ Hopkins – Mojo Hand (04:04)
1-2. Mance Lipscomb – God Moves on the Water (02:35)
1-3. Robert Shaw – The Clinton (02:21)
1-4. Kid Wiggins – Sugar Blues (02:47)
1-5. Dudley Alexander and Percussion – Other Band – St. James Infirmary (04:19)
1-6. CeDell Davis – Darlin’ (You Know I Love You) (02:55)
1-7. Dennis Gainus – You Gonna Look Like a Monkey (01:32)
1-8. Grey Ghost – One Room Country Shack (03:44)
1-9. Edwin “Buster” Pickens – Groceries on My Shelf (Piggly Wiggly) (04:29)
1-10. Hop Wilson – 3 O’clock Blues (04:55)
1-11. Jealous James Stanchell – Anything from a Foot Race to a Resting Place (03:12)
1-12. James Tisdom – Salty Dog Rag (03:19)
1-13. Gozy Kilpatrick – Goin’ to the River (01:37)
1-14. Joe Patterson – Quills (01:17)
1-15. Lightnin’ Hopkins – Ma Pa Cut the Cake (01:45)
1-16. OTIS COOK – Crazy About Oklahoma (03:15)
1-17. Grey Ghost – Little Red Rooster (03:54)
1-18. The Spiritual Light Gospel Group – My Work Will Be Done (03:01)
1-19. James Tisdom – Steel Guitar Rag (01:43)
1-20. Mance Lipscomb – Tall Angel at the Bar (03:04)
1-21. George “Bongo Joe” Coleman – This Whole World’s in a Sad Condition (08:57)
2-1. Lightnin’ Hopkins – World’s in a Tangle (05:53)
2-2. Robert Shaw – Someday Baby (05:42)
2-3. CeDell Davis – It’s Alright (03:38)
2-4. R.C. Forest – Cryin’ Won’t Make Me Stay (01:54)
2-5. VAN ALLEN – China Tea (02:33)
2-6. George “Bongo Joe” Coleman – Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is (03:26)
2-7. Lightnin’ Hopkins – Tom Moore’s Farm (04:36)
2-8. Mance Lipscomb – Tom Moore’s Farm (04:59)
2-9. Jealous James Stanchell – Don’t Do Me No Small Favors (Help the Bear) (01:37)
2-10. Billy Bizor – Fox Chase (02:22)
2-11. R.C. Forest – Black Widow Spider Blues (02:06)
2-12. Hardy Gray – Come and Go with Me to That Land (05:30)
2-13. CeDell Davis – Rollin’ and Tumblin’ (03:21)
2-14. Leroy “Country” Johnson – Train Roll Up (01:47)
2-15. Edwin “Buster” Pickens – Shorty George (04:33)
2-16. Joel Hopkins – Matchbox Blues (01:51)
2-17. Blues Wallace – It’s My Life Baby (04:19)
2-18. Andrew Everett – Hello Central, Gimme 209 (03:11)
2-19. Jim Wilkie – Bad Lee Brown (02:36)
2-20. R.C. Forest – Tin Can Alley Blues (02:52)
2-21. Murl “Doc” Webster – Medicine Show Pitch (01:50)
3-1. Mance Lipscomb – So Different Blues (02:46)
3-2. James Tisdom – I Feel so Good (02:43)
3-3. Lightnin’ Hopkins – Mr. Charlie (04:54)
3-4. Edwin “Buster” Pickens – The Ma Grinder (02:11)
3-5. Paul Elliott – Deep Ellum Blues (02:40)
3-6. Andrew Everett – K.C. Ain’t Nothing but a Rag (02:00)
3-7. Kid Wiggins – Lonesome Road (02:26)
3-8. Dennis Gainus – Old Judge Blues (03:17)
3-9. Melvin “Jack” Jackson – The Slop (02:27)
3-10. Lightnin’ Hopkins – Corrine, Corrina (03:22)
3-11. Jimmy Womack – Talking Blues (01:38)
3-12. Joel Hopkins – Good Times Here, Better Times Down the Road (03:07)
3-13. Robert Shaw – Put Me in the Alley (02:29)
3-14. Walter Britten – Auctioneer (00:36)
3-15. Hardy Gray – Runaway (03:29)
3-16. Hop Wilson – Broke and Hungry (04:17)
3-17. Mager Johnson – Big Road Blues (03:49)
3-18. Mance Lipscomb – Casey Jones (02:30)
3-19. Jimmy Womack – Atomic Energy (02:15)
3-20. Long Gone Miles – Natural Born Lover (04:26)
3-21. E.B. Busby – Swanee River Boogie (01:47)
3-22. Long Gone Miles – Rock Me Baby (02:57)
3-23. Lightnin’ Hopkins – Blues Jumped a Rabbit (03:55)
3-24. George “Bongo Joe” Coleman – George Coleman for President, Nobody for Vice President (03:09)