Roots Of Rap-Classic Recordin (1996) ( )

Product Summary Label: Yazoo UPC: 00016351201829 Release Date: 4/23/1996 Buy.com Sku: 60044173 Item#: MJH9FD Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. If I Had My Way I'd Tear This Building Down - Blind Willie Johnson ~ Various Artists 2. Cocaine Blues - Luke Jordan ~ Various Artists 3. Bow Wow Blues - The Allen Brothers ~ Various Artists 4. Jive Man Blues - Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon ~ Various Artists 5. Jonah In The Wilderness - Henry Thomas ~ Various Artists 6. South Carolina Rag - Willie Walker ~ Various Artists 7. Whitewash Station - Memphis Jug Band ~ Various Artists 8. Automobile Ride Through Alabama - Red Henderson ~ Various Artists 9. Dirty Dozen No. 2, The - Speckled Red ~ Various Artists 10. 'Tain't None O' Your Business - Butterbeans & Susie ~ Various Artists 11. It's A Good Thing - The Beale Street Sheiks ~ Various Artists 12. She's A Hum Dum Dinger - Jimmie Davis ~ Various Artists 13. Papa's On The House Top - Leroy Carr ~ Various Artists 14. Let That Liar Alone - Rev. Edward W. Clayborn ~ Various Artists 15. Back In My Home Town - Frank Hutchinson ~ Various Artists 16. Track Linin - T.C.I. Section Crew ~ Various Artists 17. Atlanta Strut - Blind Willie McTell ~ Various Artists 18. Arkansas Hard Luck Blues - Lonnie Glosson ~ Various Artists 19. How Can You Have The Blues? - Kansas City Kitty & Georgia Tom ~ Various Artists 20. Pickin' Off Peanuts - Seven Foot Dilly & His Dill Pickles ~ Various Artists 21. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out - Pine Top Smith ~ Various Artists 22. When I Stopped Running I Was At Home - The Dixieland Jug Blowers ~ Various Artists 23. Frankie Jean - Memphis Minnie ~ Various Artists   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info THE ROOTS OF RAP is a compilation of blues, country, gospel and other songs from the 1920s and 1930s with spoken cadences that pre-dated, and influenced, rap music. Compilation producers: Richard Nevins, Don Kent. Recorded in the 1920s and 1930s. Includes liner notes by Don Kent. Personnel: Blind Willie Johnson (vocals, slide guitar); Prince Laval (vocals); John Dilleshaw, Blind Willie McTell (guitar); Lonnie Glosson (harmonica); Rufus G. Perryman, Speckled Red (piano). Audio Remasterer: Richard Nevins. Liner Note Author: Don Kent. Unknown Contributor Roles: Clifford Hayes; Kansas City Kitty & Georgia Tom; Frank Hutchison; Frank Stokes; Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon; Dan Sane; Henry Thomas ; Jimmie Davis; Earl McDonald; Leroy Carr; Luke Jordan; Memphis Jug Band; Memphis Minnie; Mozelle Alderson; Pinetop Smith; Scrapper Blackwell; Allen Brothers; The Beale Street Sheiks; The Dixieland Jug Blowers; Rev. Thomas A. Dorsey; Willie Walker; Butterbeans & Susie. This ambitious and thought-provoking project turns to early black-and-white, religious, and secular traditions for antecedents to modern rap styles. Drawing from the commercial recordings of the 1920s and '30s, The Roots of Rap provides a broad sampling of rural voices straddling the lines of speech and song against the rhythms of piano, banjo, and guitar. The roots of rap, this collection argues, existed in early black work songs and in the Southern pulpit; in the performances of singing street evangelists; and in black vocal traditions such as the "dozens." Early forms of rap emerged in the vaudeville routines of minstrel and medicine shows, arising also in the country humor and talking blues of many rural white performers. To illustrate its thesis, the album draws from some of the greatest performers of the period, including Blind Willie Johnson, Seven Foot Dilly, Butterbeans and Susie, and Memphis Minnie, whose extraordinarily funky "Frankie Jean" closes the set. Like the best of Yazoo's projects, this effort is carefully and intelligently constructed, as well as consistently entertaining. ~ Burgin Mathews   Technical Info Release Date : 04/23/1996 Original Release Date : 1996 Catalog ID : 2018 Label : Yazoo Number of Discs : 1 Runtime : 69m : 48s Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Mono SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00016351201829    Product Image