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Country Negro Jam Sessions CD
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Recorded in Louisiana and Mississippi between 1959-1962. Includes liner notes by Chris Strachwitz.
The remarkable Country Negro Jam Session assembles home recordings of southwest Lousiana-based blues singers collected during the late 1950s and 1960s by musicologist Dr. Harry Oster. Fourteen cuts by country fiddler Butch Cage make up the guts of the album, but the real highlights are the grim performances by Robert Pete Williams, who was serving a murder sentence at the notorious Angola State Prison at the time his tracks were recorded; equally powerful is a rendition of "Foxhunt" performed by a group of therapy patients. Despite its somewhat misleading title, a truly landmark recording. ~ Jason Ankeny
Engineers: Dr. Harry Oster, Chris Strachwitz, Paul Oliver.
Personnel: Clarence Edwards, Robert Smoky Babe Brown, Leon Strickland, Otis Webster, Robert Pete Williams, Willie B. Thomas, Willie Thomas (vocals, guitar); Butch Cage (vocals, fiddle, flute); Rebecca Smith, Ruth Miller, Sally Dotson, Tom Miller, Ben Douglas (vocals); Cornelius Edwards, Hillary Blunt, Robert Welch (guitar); Lucius Bridges (washboard); Martha Thomas (tom tom).
Liner Note Author: Chris Strachwitz.
Recording information: Louisiana.
Photographer: Chris Strachwitz.
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Country Negro Jam Sessions Songs
| 1 | 44 Blues * See All 26
(with Butch Cage, Butch Cage & Willie B. Thomas / Butch Cage / Willie B. Thomas, Willie B. Thomas) | 3:32 | $0.99 | (From different album) |
| 2 | Mississippi Heavy Water Blues See All 8
(with Robert “Guitar" J. Welch, Robert Pete Williams, Robert Pete Williams & Robert “Guitar" J. Welch / Robert Pete Williams / Robert “Guitar" J. Welch) | | | |
| 3 | Smokestack Lightning * See All 86
(with Butch Cage, Clarence Edwards, Clarence Edwards, Cornelius Edwards, & Butch Cage / Clarence Edwards / Cornelius Edwards / Butch Cage, Cornelius Edwards) | | $0.99 | (Different version) |
| 4 | Who Broke the Lock? * See All 6
(with Butch Cage, Willie B. Thomas) | 2:51 | $0.99 | (From different album) |
| 5 | You Don't Love Me * See All 130 
(with Butch Cage, Clarence Edwards, Clarence Edwards, Cornelius Edwards, & Butch Cage / Clarence Edwards / Cornelius Edwards / Butch Cage, Cornelius Edwards) | | $0.99 | (From different album) |
| 6 | It's the Sign of the Judgement
(with Butch Cage, Butch Cage & Willie B. Thomas / Butch Cage / Willie B. Thomas, Willie B. Thomas) | | | |
| 7 | Fox Hunt * See All 5
(with Ben Douglas, Ben Douglas / Ben Douglas) | | $0.99 | (From different album) |
| 8 | Your Dice Won't Pass
(with Hillary Blunt, Sally Doston, Sally Doston, Smoky Babe, & Hillary Blunt / Sally Doston / Smoky Babe / Hillary Blunt, Smoky Babe) | | | |
| 9 | Jelly Roll See All 9
(with Butch Cage, Willie B. Thomas, Willie B. Thomas & Butch Cage / Willie B. Thomas / Butch Cage) | | | |
| 10 | I've Got Religion See All 4
(with Rebecca Smith, Rebecca Smith, Tom Miller, & Ruth Miller / Rebecca Smith / Tom Miller / Ruth Miller, Ruth Miller, Tom Miller) | | | |
| 11 | Going Downtown Boogie
(with Smoky Babe, Smoky Babe / Smoky Babe) | | | |
| 12 | Stack o' dollars See All 8
(with Butch Cage, Clarence Edwards, Clarence Edwards, Cornelius Edwards, & Butch Cage / Clarence Edwards / Cornelius Edwards / Butch Cage, Cornelius Edwards) | | | |
| 13 | Brown Skin Woman See All 12
(with Butch Cage, Willie B. Thomas, Willie B. Thomas & Butch Cage / Willie B. Thomas / Butch Cage) | | | |
| 14 | I Won't Be Your Low-Down Dog No More
(with Leon Strickland, Leon Strickland, Lucius Bridges, & Leslie Anders / Leon Strickland / Lucius Bridges / Leslie Anders, Leslie Anders, Lucius Bridges) | | | |
| 15 | Piano Blues See All 3
(with Butch Cage, Butch Cage & Willie B. Thomas / Butch Cage / Willie B. Thomas, Willie B. Thomas) | | | |
| 16 | Cottonfield Blues See All 11
(with Smoky Babe) | | | |
| 17 | Farm Blues
(with Otis Webster, Otis Webster / Otis Webster) | | | |
| 18 | Boss Man Blues
(with Otis Webster, Otis Webster / Otis Webster) | | | |
| 19 | Whoa Mule See All 10
(with Butch Cage, Willie B. Thomas) | | | |
| 20 | Boll Weevil Blues * See All 15
(with Otis Webster, Otis Webster / Otis Webster) | | $0.99 | (From different album) |
| 21 | Thousand Miles from Nowhere See All 5
(with Butch Cage, Clarence Edwards, Clarence Edwards, Cornelius Edwards, & Butch Cage / Clarence Edwards / Cornelius Edwards / Butch Cage, Cornelius Edwards) | | | |
| 22 | Dead and Gone * See All 18
(with Butch Cage, Butch Cage & Willie B. Thomas / Butch Cage / Willie B. Thomas, Willie B. Thomas) | 5:01 | $0.99 | (From different album) |
| 23 | Called For You Yesterday
(with Butch Cage, Butch Cage & Willie B. Thomas / Butch Cage / Willie B. Thomas, Willie B. Thomas) | | | |
| 24 | Me and My Chauffeur Blues * See All 33
(with Butch Cage) | 2:50 | $0.99 | (From different album) |
| 25 | Baby Please Don't Go * See All 256
(with Butch Cage, Butch Cage & Willie B. Thomas / Butch Cage / Willie B. Thomas, Willie B. Thomas) | 3:13 | $0.99 | (From different album) |
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