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Judge
Jackson and the Colored Sacred Harp |
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Judge Jackson and the Colored Sacred Harp by Joe Dan Boyd with an introduction by John Bealle. Purchase $29.95 Read the Review This 160-page hardbound book with CD tells the story of
Judge Jackson of Ozark, Alabama, who in 1934 published a small
book of religious songs written by and for African-American
shape-note singers. It continues with the formation and rise
to prominence of the Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers, led by
Dewey Williams and Japheth Jackson . The enclosed CD contains
2 historic recordings in which Judge Jackson participated and
23 others from The Colored Sacred Harp as well as the
Cooper version of The Sacred Harp. |
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Tributaries, Vol. I:
Journal of the Alabama Folklife Association Purchase $8 "Survival of the Great Shoal Fishtrap" by Jim Brown, "New Strings on the 'Old Harp" by John Bealle, "Songs of Work and Songs of Worship" by Brenda McCallum, "Miracle of the Fishes: Mobile Bay Jubilees" by Anne Kimzey, "A Quilter's Diary" by Nora Ezell, and "Popsicle Man, Popsicle Union" by Archie Green, plus book and record reviews. top |
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Tributaries, Vol. II:
Journal of the Alabama Folklife Association Purchase $8 "'The Log Train : Hank Williams Last Song" by David Anderson and Patrick Huber, "Steve Renfroe, Rube Burrow and Railroad Bill: Alabamas Outlaw/Heroes" by Alan Brown, " Even the Houses Die!" The Poisoning and Demise of Sweet Valley, Alabama" by Suzanne Marshall, " "My Great-Grandmother Was A Cherokee Princess: The Unknown Indians of the South" by Fred Fussell, and "Because We Care: Competence in Performance by African-American Women in Wiregrass Alabama" by Jerrilyn McGregory, plus book and record reviews and obituaries. top |
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Tributaries,
Vol. III: Journal of the Alabama Folklife
Association Purchase $8 "Southern Graveshelters and English Lych-Gates" by Gregory Jeane, "The Skylines Farms Band Plays for President and Mrs. Roosevelt" by David Campbell, "The Piney Woods Regional Folklife Project" by Carolyn Ware, and " 'That Dirt Was Good': Geophagy in Alabama's Black Belt" by Patrick McIntyre, plus book and record reviews. top |
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Tributaries,
Vol. IV: Journal of the Alabama Folklife
Association Purchase $8 "'I'm Not Handy, I Had Mine Made': Christmas Curb Lights as Expression of Individual and Community Aesthetics" by Ann K. Ferrell; "'As Long as Time Lasts': Ritual, Alliance, and Cultural Survival in Creek Indian Origin/Migration Narratives" by Larry Ellis; "Hearts of Steel: The Story of John Catchings, Joe Gelders, and a Ballad" by Joyce Cauthen, plus reviews of the film "Sweet Is the Day: A Sacred Harp Family Portrait" and Alan Browns' book, Shadows and Cypress--Southern Ghost Stories. top |
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Vol. V: Journal of the Alabama Folklife Association
Purchase
$10
This special thematic issue focuses on
Alabama’s contribution to the blues genre: |
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Tributaries, Vol. VI: Journal of the Alabama Folklife Association
Purchase $8
Alabama's First Folklife Celebration: The Brief, Mostly
Happy Life of FolkCenter South" by Jim Brown, with photo
essay by Mark Gooch; "'You Got Family Here': Family
Reunions in Lower Alabama" by Stephen and Samantha
Criswell; "Tracking Down Alabama Indian Trails: Our
Elders and the History of the Land" by Lamar Marshall;
"Mozell Benson" by Anne Kimzey and Joyce Cauthen,
plus reviews of Kay Norton's new book on the history of
"Mercer's Cluster," Volume 2 of the CD series
"The Traditional Musics of Alabama," and two books,
a CD, and a video associated with the exhibition "Quilts
of Gee's Bend. |
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Tributaries, Vol. VII: Journal of the Alabama Folklife Association
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"Roots Running Deep: Picking Mayhaws"
by Lori A. Sawyer |
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Traditional
Music from Alabama's Wiregrass Purchase $10 This compact disc features field recordings of bluegrass, gospel, blues and Sacred Harp singing from a ten-county region of southeast Alabama. It comes with an enclosed 26- page booklet discussing the musical traditions and the artists who perform them. Contents: |
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The
Alabama Sampler Purchase $12.50 A compact disc, compiled by Joyce Cauthen, featuring live performances from the traditional music stage at Birminghams City Stages festival, including, blues, bluegrass, Sacred Harp singing, gospel, railroad calls, and more. Contents: 1. Big Bo and Little Whitt (West Alabama): My Home is On the Delta (Blues) 2. The Adairs (Haleyville): Wild Bill Jones (Bluegrass) 3. Cornelius Wright, Jr. (Birmingham): A Gandy Dancer’s Track Lining Calls (Spoken Word) 4. James Bryan and Carl Jones (Sand Mountain): Whistleby (Old-time Fiddling) 5. Albert Macon and Robert Thomas (Tuskegee): Tap Dance/Back and Sides (Country Blues) 6. John Alexander’s Sterling Jubilee Singers (Bessemer): Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb 7. Little Jimmy Reed (Enterprise): Help Me to Spend this Dough (Blues) 8. The Birmingham Sunlights: I’m Going to View that Holy City (Gospel) 9 Whited String Band (Oneonta): Fox Hunt (Harmonica showpiece) 10. Gospel Harmonettes of Demopolis: He’ll Wash you Whiter than Snow (Gospel) 11. Kathryn Tucker Windham (Selma): Don’t be Afraid of Ghosts (Story excerpt) 12. Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers (Ozark): Florida Storm/Give me Just a Little More Time 13. Al Malone and the Melody Men (Lebanon): Sin Ain’t Nothing but the Blues (Gospel) 14. Glenn Tolbert (Birmingham): Ruby (Bluegrass) 15. National Convention Sacred Harp Singers: Sweet Canaan (Hymn) 16. Jerry McCain (Gadsden): Just a Little Bit (Blues) 17. Jerry and Tammy Sullivan (Wagarville): Blind Bartimeus (Gospel) top |
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Cornbread
Crumbled in Gravy: Historical Alabama Field
Recording from the Byron Arnold Collection of
Traditional Tunes Purchase $12.50 In June and July of 1947 Byron Arnold, a professor of music at the University of Alabama, drove across the state of Alabama recording folk songs. The University of Alabama Press published his resulting book, Folksongs of Alabama, in 1950 but it was not until 1992 that any of Byron’s recordings reached the public via this collection produced by the Alabama Folklife Association. Included here are 14 beautifully sung pieces, selected by Joy Baklanoff, and a 70-page guide, prepared by John Bealle, which includes biographical information about Arnold as well as information about the singers, the songs, and Arnold’s experiences in recording them. Contents: |
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Benjamin Lloyds
Hymn Book: A Primitive Baptist Song Tradition Hardcover Edition with included CD Purchase $29.95 This attractive book contains essays on
Benjamin Lloyd’s Primitive Hymns, a word-only hymnal which
was compiled and published in Alabama in 1841 and has been in
continuous use by Primitive Baptists since that time. Packaged
with the book is a compact disc featuring 20 performances of
hymns by Primitive Baptists in Alabama, Georgia, and North
Carolina. Extensive liner notes about the performances
accompany the CD. Joyce Cauthen served as editor of the book
and producer of the CD. Included in the book are the
following: The CD contains singing from Lloyd's Primitive Hymns by the
Lee family of Hoboken, GA; New Jerusalem Primitive Baptist
Church, Bessemer, AL; Smyrna PB Chuch, Goodwater, AL; Shiloh
PB Association, Elkin, NC; Little Hope PB Church, Eoline, AL;
Jesse Allison, Doc Reed, and Vera Hall, Livingston, AL; Mt.
Pilgrim PB Church, Livingston, AL; Ginny Hawker, WV; Amanda
Smith and Ella Pearl White, Loachapoka, AL; Mt. Hebrew PB
Church, Notasulga, AL; Oak Grove PB Church, Davidson County,
NC; Bethel PB Church, Berlin; AL, Bethlehem PB Church, Eutaw,
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Traditional
Musics of Alabama, Volume 1 A Compilation Purchase $12.50 This CD is the first in the Alabama Center for Traditional Culture's Millennium Series, produced by Steve Grauberger. It presents a delightful and well-recorded variety of children's games, work songs, sacred music, fiddle tunes, blues and other forms of music traditional to Alabama collected by musicologists and folklorists over the last 50 years. Contents: 1) Excelsior Band of Mobile: Medley 2) Child's game: Walking on the green grass 3) Mobile dock workers: Carrie, Carrie 4) Corly Pennington: Ra-ta-tum-de-dum 5) Children's play song 6) Harriet McClintock: Come, butter, come 7) Tom Bell: Cross-E shimmy dance tune 8) Noah Lacy: Hen Cackle 9) John Henry Mealing: Girl in the white folk's yard 10) Baldwin County Polka Band: Red Rose Polka/Baby Doll Polka 11) Elder Donald Smith, Grace, ‘tis a charming sound 12) Spring Hill Union Primitive Baptist Association: We shall sleep but not forever 13) The Melody Men: My Heavy Burdens have Rolled Away 14) Luella Hatcher: A charge to keep I have 15) The Sullivan Family: Old Brush Arbor 16) The Birmingham Sunlights: Angels Watching Over Me 17) Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers: Pisgah 18) Capitol Rotunda Singing: Sweet Rivers 19) Elder Fred Cockrell: Sure Been Good to Me 20) Dale County Gospel Association: Look Up 21) Gary Waldrep: Goin' on the Mountain 22) Albert Macon and Robert Thomas: Gotta Move 23) Reagan Ngamvilay: Khamsing Darapheth Salawan 24) Russell Johnson and J.C. Brock: Johnson's Old Grey Mule 25) Mariachi Garibaldi: Guadalajara 26) The Stripling Brothers: Wolves a’howling 27) The Thomas Sisters: What a Day of Victory 28) Notes and Strings: Getting Ready to Leave this World 29) The Sounds of Joy: Fix it, Jesus 30) Dixie Bluegrass: What a Friend we have in Jesus top |
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Traditional
Musics of Alabama, Volume
2 African American Seven Shapenote Singing OUT OF PRINT This CD is the second in the Alabama Center for Traditional Culture's Millennium Series, produced by Steve Grauberger. It features African American singing conventions in Alabama that practice a unique form of gospel singing using the repertory of southern gospel music known as "seven shape," "new book," or "little book" singing. Many familiar songs are featured, most sung a cappella. 1) This World Is Not My Home |
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Traditional Musics of Alabama, Volume
3 2002 National Sacred Harp Singing Convention Purchase $12.50 This CD is the third in the Alabama Center for Traditional Culture's Millennium Series, produced by Steve Grauberger. Recorded June 14th 2002 at the National Sacred Harp Convention at Trinity United Methodist Church, Birmingham, Alabama. Program notes were written by John Bealle. " In June of each year, on the Thursday, Friday, and Saturday that precede the third Sunday of the month, singers from around the nation and across the oceans gather in Birmingham, Alabama, for three days of vigorous singing from the shape note tunebook, the Sacred Harp. The occasion that brings them together is the National Sacred Harp Singing Convention, an event that draws from a deep-rooted tradition of public congregational singing. This recording of the 23rd session of the National Sacred Harp Singing Convention celebrates this important event." (John Bealle) 1) New Britain p.45 |
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Traditional Musics of Alabama, Volume
4 African American Sacred Harp Singing Wiregrass Notes Revised Purchase $12.50 This CD is the Fourth in the Alabama Center for Traditional Culture's Millennium Series, produced by Steve Grauberger. Recorded in 1980 in Ozark Alabama by Brenda and Steve McCallum. This is a newly digitized and revised release originally produced by Hank Willett with the Alabama Center for Traditional Culture and Doris Dyen as the LP "Wiregrass Notes: Black Sacred Harp Singing From Southeast Alabama." Included are the songs in the original release plus 13 additional songs taken from original event recordings. 1) Amazing Grace |
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Sweet
is the Day: A Sacred Harp Family Portrait
A 60-minute video available in VHS
and
DVD format.
As this video reveals, Sacred Harp
singing has always been more than music. For inheritors like
the Woottens the tradition is a life-shaping force. The
enclosed 44-page film guide, by John Bealle, further explains
the history of Sacred Harp singing, discusses the many
traditions attached to it such as singing schools and
"dinner on the grounds" and looks beyond Sand
Mountain to the large and enthusiastic community of Sacred
Harp singers across the nation. |
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THE SPIRIT: ALABAMA'S SACRED MUSIC TRADITION
Purchase $15 Essays on shaped-note singing,
Dr. Watts hymns, Psalm singing, bluegrass gospel, a capella
gospel quartets, moaning, and more. Packaged with CD (or
cassette, if requested) providing beautiful examples of the
various forms of sacred music.Edited by Henry Willett,
articles include: "The African-American Covenanters of
Selma, Alabama" by Henry Willett; "The Moan-and Prayer
Event in African-American Worship" by Willie Collins;
"Singing 'Dr. Watts': A Venerable Hymn Tradition Among
African Americans in Alabama" by Joyce Cauthen;
"Sand Mountain's Wooten Family: Sacred Harp Singers"
by Buell Cobb; "Judge Jackson and the Colored Sacred Harp" by
Henry Willett; "The Deasons: A Christian Harmony
Family" by Anne H. F. Kimzey;
"Seven-shape-note Gospel Music in Northern Alabama: The
Case of the Athens Music Company" by Charles Wolfe;
"Shape-Note Gospel singing on Sand Mountain" by
Joyce Cauthen; "Of related interest--convention Gospel
singing in Alabama" by Fred C. Fussell;
"Community and the Jefferson County, Alabama, Gospel
Quartet Tradition" by Doug Seroff; "Cry Holy
Unto the Lord: Tradition and Diversity in Bluegrass Gospel
Music" by Jack Bernhardt; "Of related
interest--Margie Sullivan: Mother of Bluegrass Gospel" by
Erin Kellen. |
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Allison's Sacred Harp Singers CD: Heaven's My Home 1927-1928 Purchase 13.50 This CD features beautifully re-mastered selections of rare Sacred Harp recordings made in 1927 in Birmingham and 1928 in Richmond, Indiana, by five expert singers from Birmingham and Moody, Alabama. 1
THE HEAVENLY PORT (2:46)
singing with organ |
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Religion is a Fortune Sacred Harp Singing: Various Groups - Early 1900s Purchase 13.50 1
HALLELUJAH
Daniels-Deason
Sacred Harp Singers (3:01) |
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