Traditional Musics of Alabama, Volume 1 A Compilation


$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 
Price: $12.50