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V/A – I'm Gonna Live Anyhow Until I Die: Field Recordings Of Alan Lomax's "Southern Journey", 1959-1960

V/A – I’m Gonna Live Anyhow Until I Die: Field Recordings Of Alan Lomax’s “Southern Journey”, 1959-1960

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In 1959 and 1960, at the height of the Folk Revival, Alan Lomax ventured again through the American South to document its still thriving vernacular musical culture. He and his assistant, the English folksinger Shirley Collins, traveled through Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, and North Carolina, making over 70 hours of field recordings, the first ever to be made on stereo tape. The trip came to be known as the “Southern Journey,” and its recordings were originally issued for the Atlantic and Prestige labels in the early ’60s.

“I’m Gonna Live Anyhow Until I Die” features Bluebird hillbilly recording artists J.E. Mainer and his Mountaineers; menhaden fishermen chanties of the Bright Light Quartet; Blue Ridge country gospel composer and bus driver E.C. Ball; Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers; Pentecostal Holiness congregational singing from Memphis; the Mississippi Hill Country dance music of the Pratcher brothers; and one of the debut recordings of bluesman Mississippi Fred McDowell.Compiled and annotated by Nathan Salsburg, the albums feature remastered audio from transfers of the original tapes, and include considerable previously unreleased material and extensive booklets of photos and notes.

Label: Mississippi Records – MR-065

Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation

Country: US

Released: 2010

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