Name: Deep River of Song: Mississippi - Saints and Sinners
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Album: Deep River of Song: Mississippi - Saints and Sinners
#	Song Title	Time
1)	It's Better to Be Born Lucky
2)	Stagolee
3)	Walking Billy
4)	Mississippi Sounding Calls
5)	Come Here, Dog, And Get Your Bone
6)	Emmaline, Take Your Time
7)	Hog Hunt
8)	Fox Hunter's Song, The
9)	Times Is Getting Hard
10)	Diamond Joe
11)	One Morning at the Braek of Day (Wake up Song)
12)	Workin' on the Levee, Sleepin' on de Ground
13)	Lord, I'm in Trouble
14)	Stewball
15)	Rosie
16)	French Blues
17)	Rock, Daniel
18)	Interview
19)	Hallelu, Hallelu
20)	I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray
21)	Conversation Experience
22)	Let Me Ride
23)	If I Had My Way, I'd Tear the Building Down
24)	Little David
25)	Calvary

Album: Deep River of Song: Mississippi - Saints and Sinners
#	Song Title	Time
1)	It's Better to Be Born Lucky
2)	Stagolee
3)	Walking Billy
4)	Mississippi Sounding Calls
5)	Come Here, Dog, And Get Your Bone
6)	Emmaline, Take Your Time
7)	Hog Hunt
8)	Fox Hunter's Song, The
9)	Times Is Getting Hard
10)	Diamond Joe
11)	One Morning at the Braek of Day (Wake up Song)
12)	Workin' on the Levee, Sleepin' on de Ground
13)	Lord, I'm in Trouble
14)	Stewball
15)	Rosie
16)	French Blues
17)	Rock, Daniel
18)	Interview
19)	Hallelu, Hallelu
20)	I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray
21)	Conversation Experience
22)	Let Me Ride
23)	If I Had My Way, I'd Tear the Building Down
24)	Little David
25)	Calvary

Performer Notes

DEEP RIVER OF SONG: MISSISSIPPI: SAINTS & SINNERS contains field recordings made by Alan Lomax, John A. Lomax, Ruby T. Lomax, Lewis Jones, and Herbert Halpert.
Performers include: Big Charlie Butler, Lucious Curtis & Willie Ford, Thomas "Jaybird" Jones, Joe Shores, Jim Henry, Sid Hemphill, Alec Askew, Will Head, Will Starks, Crap Eye, Jeff Webster, Joe Miller, Dobie Red, Frank Evans, Rev. X.H. Savage, Henry Joiner, Annie Anderson, Deacon Tom Jones.
Producer: Alan Lomax.
Compilation producers: Anna Lomax Chairetakis, Jeffrey A. Greenberg.
Recorded between 1936 and 1942. Includes liner notes by David Evans.
This is part of Rounder's Alan Lomax Collection.
Recorded by Alan and John Lomax during the late '30s and early '40s, this volume in the Deep River of Song series focuses on work songs, ballads, spirituals, blues shouts, and all kinds of story songs. A companion volume to Deep River of Song: The Blues Lineage, which presented field recordings by Son House, Muddy Waters, and many other Delta bluesmen, Saints & Sinners presents a good look at the musical climate of rural Mississippi during the early 20th century. Listeners are given an ample view of the atmosphere of the times, which was much closer to the days of slavery than many blues fans realize. The names known best to Delta aficionados are Sid Hemphill and Dobie Red, though much of the best material comes from the many contributors who never made it to a studio; Alec Askew, Crap Eye, Rev. C.H. Savage, Henry Joiner and Deacon Tom Jones are just a few of the mysterious names whose sparse recordings lend a ghostly air to the proceedings. For those captivated by the mystery of many selections from Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, Saints & Sinners is a vital addition to their library. ~ Earl Simmons

Professional Reviews

Dirty Linen (4-5/00, p.64) - "...Variety is abundant among the 25 offerings [here]....Dobie Red and eight fellow Parchman Penitentiary prisoners sing a rendition of 'Stewball', which functioned to pace convicts during wood-chopping duties....a fascinating musical window on the past."