| Product Summary | | Label: Document | | UPC: 00714298546125 | | Release Date: 3/19/2002 | | Buy.com Sku: 60040004 | | Item#: MJKTDJ | Format:  CD |
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Song Listing
| Disc 1 | | Song Title | Sample | | 1. I Know A Great Saviour, I Do ~ Emma E Beachman | ------ | | 2. I'm Going Through With Jesus ~ Emma E Beachman | ------ | | 3. You've Got to Quit Your Low Down Ways ~ Billy Mack/Billy & Mary Mack | ------ | | 4. Death's Black Train Is Coming ~ Reverend J.M. Gates | ------ | | 5. Amazing Grace ~ Reverend J.M. Gates | ------ | | 6. Don't You Leave Me Here ~ Sara Lawrence/Laura Smith | ------ | | 7. If You Don't Like My Potatoes ~ Sara Lawrence/Laura Smith | ------ | | 8. Tell It To The Judge No. 2 ~ Dessa Foster/Howling Smith (take A) | ------ | | 9. Blackberry Rag ~ Three Stripped Gears | ------ | | 10. Alabama Blues ~ Three Stripped Gears | ------ | | 11. Beedle Um Bum ~ Roy Palmer/Memphis Nighthawks | ------ | | 12. Ko ~ Ko | ------ | | 13. Happy Am I ~ Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux | ------ | | 14. Black Man ~ Josh White | ------ | | 15. Poor Millionaire Blues ~ Peetie Wheatstraw | ------ | | 16. Decoration Day Blues ~ Curtis Jones (take 2) | ------ | | 17. Crap Shootin' Blues ~ Lavell Alexander/One Arm Slim (take 1) | ------ | | 18. I'm in Buddy's Wagon ~ Charlie Burse | ------ | | 19. Radio Blues ~ Charlie Burse | ------ | | 20. Hell's Highway ~ Charlie Burse | ------ | | 21. Grey Goose ~ Leadbelly (take 2) | ------ | | 22. Soldiers Joy ~ The Nashville Washboard Band | ------ | | 23. Old Joe ~ Nashville Grass/The Nashville Washboard Band | ------ | | 24. We Shall Be Free ~ Leadbelly (alternate take) | ------ | | 25. 4, 5, and 9 ~ Leadbelly | ------ |
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| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Cisco Houston, Jack Kelly , Leadbelly (vocals, guitar); Roy Palmer (vocals, trombone); Curtis Jones, Peetie Wheatstraw (vocals, piano); Dessa Foster, William Langford, Mary Mack, Henry Owens, Arlandus Wilson, Willis Johnson, Billy Mack, Funny Paper Smith, Josh White, Charlie Burse (vocals); Dan Sane, Willie Bee, Joe Dalton, Hobson "Hop" Johnson, Kokomo Arnold, Marion Brown, Brownie McGhee (guitar); Buddy Christian (banjo); James Kelly (mandolin); Will Batts (violin); Sonny Terry (harmonica); Darnell Howard (clarinet, tenor saxophone); Alfred Bell (trumpet); Tom Morris , Thomas Morris (cornet); Clarence Williams, Duke Ellington, Bob Hudson, Black Bob Hudson, Mike Jackson , Walter Roland (piano); Fred Williams (drums). | | Recording information: Soundborn Studios (1924-1946); Work's John Home, Nashville TN (1924-1946). | | Newly discovered titles, alternate takes, and previously unreleased material fill in Vol. 6 in this very valuable collectors' blues series. Issued in chronological order as usual, the 25 selections on the CD (which include some religious pieces in addition to blues and a few instrumentals) contain performances by Emma E. Beacham, Billy & Mary Mack, Rev. J.M. Gates, Laura Smith, the team of Dessa Foster & Howling Smith, Three Stripped Gears (a string trio), the Memphis Night Hawks ("Beedle Um Bum"), Jack Kelly's South Memphis Jug Band, Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, Josh White, Peetie Wheatstraw, Curtis Jones, One Arm Slim, Charlie Burse's Memphis Mudcats, Leadbelly, and the Nashville Washboard Band. Intriguing music, easily recommended to early blues collectors. ~ Scott Yanow |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 09/2000 | | Original Release Date : 1996 | | Catalog ID : 5461 | | Label : Document (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 71m : 46s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Mono | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00714298546125 |
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