Southern Journey, Vol. 3: 61 Highway Mississippi
Various Artists Main Performer
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| 1 | Louisiana | 1:43 |
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| 2 | Jim and John | Young/Young | 2:12 |
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| 3 | 61 Highway Blues | Batts | 3:08 |
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| 4 | Stewball | Travers/Stookey/Her | 3:25 |
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| 5 | Po' Boy Blues | 3:19 |
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| 6 | God's Unchanging Hand | 1:44 |
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| 7 | Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning | McDowell | 2:45 |
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| 8 | Emmaline, Take Your Time [#] | 1:43 |
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| 9 | I'm Gonna Live Anyhow 'Till I Die | 2:35 |
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| 10 | Little Sally Walker | :52 |
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| 11 | Old Devil's Dream | 1:49 |
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| 12 | Rolled and Tumbled | 2:56 |
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| 13 | Mama Lucy | 1:36 |
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| 14 | Soon One Mornin' (Death Come A-Creepin' in My Room) | McDowell | 3:18 |
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| 15 | I'm Goin' Home | 3:22 |
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| 16 | Interview | :53 |
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| 17 | Fred McDowell's Blues | 4:12 |
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| 18 | Tryin' to Make Heaven My Home | 2:19 |
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| 19 | Berta, Berta | Traditional | 4:43 |
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| 20 | Germany Blues | 3:11 |
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| 21 | Clarksdale Mill Blues [#] | 2:21 |
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| 22 | If It's All Night Long [#] | 3:02 |
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| 23 | Lord Have Mercy [#] | Traditional/Fahey | 1:53 |
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| 24 | Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby [#] | 1:03 |
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Southern Journey, Vol. 3: 61 Highway Mississippi
Audio Compact Disc
Label: Rounder
Category: Folk
Southern Journey, Vol. 3: 61 Highway Mississippi
UPC: 011661170322
Release Date: 04/22/1997
Original Release Date: 04/22/1997
Number of Discs: 1
- Various Artists
Main Performer
Richie Unterberger
Twenty-four tracks from Alan Lomax's 1959 blues recordings in Mississippi, five previously unreleased. Fred McDowell (who has five songs) is the "star," you might say, of these sessions; he would go on to establish a successful performing and recording career, and is the only name recognizable to most listeners. This is an effective document, however, of the different strands of country blues and their roots. It includes not just rural Delta guitar blues, but also field hollers, spirituals, prison songs, fife-and-drum tunes, and Sid Hemphill's quills. Lomax would later note that when he revisited the area 20 years later, most of these forms had all but disappeared from view. This disc is a good reminder of how blues developed from several African-American Southern folk traditions whose influence has sometimes been underestimated. ~ Richie Unterberger, Rovi
