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

