Various Artists: American Patchwork (Various Artists)

From 1978 to 1983, Alan Lomax and a video-crew traveled through the American South and Southwest, documenting it's traditional music - miners, moonshiners, and Primitive Baptists in Kentucky; flat-footers, string bands, and Piedmont blues in North Carolina; Cajun cowboys, fiddlers, and zydeco stompers in French-speaking Louisiana; and fife-and-drum ensembles, gospel quartets, former railroad track-liners, levee-camp muleskinners, and players on the pre-war blues circuit in Mississippi. This footage ultimately totaled some 350 hours and was edited into Lomax's "American Patchwork" series, which aired on American public television in 1991. But given the strictures of the form, hundreds of discrete performances and compelling scenes were left unseen and unheard. This set brings together the standout recordings Lomax made in his attempt to document the last vestiges of the "local surround" in Mississippi, Appalachia, and Louisiana. Intimate performances by R.L. Burnside, Tommy Jarrell, Boyd Rivers, Napoleon Strickland and many more form a rich tapestry of distinctly American musical traditions.

1. R.L. Burnside - See My Jumper
2. Janette and Joe Carter - Will You Miss Me
3. Sheila Kay Adams - Little Margaret
4. Sheila Kay Adams - Banjo Instrumental
5. Sheila Kay Adams - Dinah
6. Joe Savage - Peace In The Valley
7. Holly Springs Sacred Harp Singers - David's Lamentation (#248)
8. Vaughn Eller - Fly Around My Blue-Eyed Gal
9. Dennis McGee - Two Step De Eunice
10. Dink Roberts - Fox Chase
11. Laethe Eller - Way Up In The Bright New World
12. Boyd ; Ruth May Rivers - Somebody Touched Me
13. Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers - Give Me Just A Little More Time
14. Lois Short - Little Birdie
15. Dellie Chandler Norton - Early
16. Early In the Spring
17. Tommy Jarrell - Old Reuben
18. Canray Fontenot - Bonsoir Moreau
19. Ray Hicks - Reuben
20. Belton Sutherland - Blues #2
21. Nimrod Workman - Mother Jones’ Will
22. Napoleon Strickland ; the Como Drum Corp - My Babe
23. Lawrence Black Ardoin ; Band - Why You Wanna Make Me Cry
24. Moving Star Hall Singers - I’m Going To Trust In the Lord
25. Napoleon Strickland - Jesus Stop By Here
26. Boyd ; Ruth May Rivers - Fire Shed In My Bones

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