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Includes Alan Lomax's updated liner notes as well as an essay by blues expert Robert Palmer.

All tracks have been digitally remastered from the original master tapes.

In 1959, Atlantic sent noted ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax into the American South with a stereo tape recorder to do a series of field recordings of the traditional local music. This box set is a document of that journey.

Alan Lomax was one of America's great musical historians. He traveled the world in search of the folk music of various cultures, recording it on the fly with modest technology, but like Harry Smith with the ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC, Lomax made the greatest impact with his chronicles of American rural music. The four-disc set SOUNDS OF THE SOUTH contains Lomax's field recordings from a 1959 sojourn, originally released in the early '60s as a six-LP collection.

Digitally enhanced and decked out with additional liner notes, it's broken up into sections by category, such as mountain music, spirituals, etc. Taken as a whole, it encompasses a dizzying array of traditional American sounds: bluegrass pickers, country blues guitarists, gospel choirs, folk singers, chain gangs, and more. The artists represented range from the familiar (Mississippi Fred McDowell) to the obscure (Miles & Bob Pratcher), but they all offer up a captivating portrait of American musical traditions. Think of SOUNDS OF THE SOUTH as a singing history book.

Full title: Sounds Of The South - A Musical Journey From The Georgia Sea Islands To The Mississippi Delta Recorded In The Field By Alan Lomax.

Reissue producer: Yves Beauvais.Rolling Stone (12/9/93, p.70) - 4.5 Stars - Excellent Plus - "...8 hours of bluegrass, mountain ballads, spirituals and children's songs - some of the finest music of its kind ever documented - all now repackaged on four CDs with the detail and respect that our fragile, eroding heritage deserves...."
Musician (12/93, p.94) - "...The material, repackaged here on four CD's, originally appeared in 1960 on six Atlantic albums...[but] modern ears are friendlier to "world music," and perhaps better prepared to hear these strange and mysterious sounds of American singing...."

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Category Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Pop, Folk, Blues, Blues Collections, Regional Collections, Delta, Box Sets
Label Atlantic
Orig Year 1993
All Time Product Rank 210,087
CD Universe Part number 1097304
Catalog number 82496
Discs 4
Release Date Jul 16, 1993
Studio/Live Mixed
Mono/Stereo Stereo
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1Banks Of The Arkansas / Wave The Ocean
2Hen Duck
3Farmer's Curst Wife See All 6
4Boll Weevil Holler See All 2
5Jesse James * See All 70 [UNKNOWN ARTIST] JESSE JAMES Lyrics7:28 $0.99
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6Jesse James * See All 70 [UNKNOWN ARTIST] JESSE JAMES Lyrics7:28 $0.99
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7Kenny Wagner
8Trouble So Hard See All 15
9Baptizing Scene
10Is There Anybody Here That Love My Jesus See All 2
11Windham See All 2
12Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning See All 8 [UNKNOWN ARTIST] KEEP YOUR LAMPS TRIMMED AND BURNING Lyrics
13Come on Boys, Let's Go to the Ball See All 2
14Join the Band See All 5
15Lucky Holler See All 2
16I Be So Blad When the Sun Goes Down
17Cotton Eyed Joe * See All 91 [UNKNOWN ARTIST] COTTON EYED JOE Lyrics2:41 $0.99
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18Big Tilda See All 2
19Jennie Jenkins See All 2
20John Henry * See All 1913:24 $0.99
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21Rosewood Casket See All 2
22Silly Bill
23Big Ball in Boston
24Chilly Winds See All 5
25Old Hickory Cane See All 2
26John Brown * See All 87:11 $0.99
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27Poor Ellen Smith * See All 462:16 $0.99
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28Shady Grove * See All 684:43 $0.99
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Disc 2
1Jim and John See All 5
2Wild Ox Moan See All 5
3Been Drinkin' Water Out of a Hollow Log
4all night long * See All 377 [UNKNOWN ARTIST] ALL NIGHT LONG Lyrics3:49 $0.99
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5Shake 'Em on Down See All 49 [UNKNOWN ARTIST] SHAKE THEM ON DOWN Lyrics
6Levee Camp Reminiscence
7CHEVROLET See All 7
8Levee Camp Holler * See All 8 $0.99
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9Eighteen Hammers
10Drink on Little Girl See All 3
11Drop Down Mama * See All 243:04 $0.99
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12Boogie Children See All 11
13She Lived Her Life Too Fast See All 2
14Sittin' on top of the world * See All 112 [UNKNOWN ARTIST] SITTING ON TOP OF THE WORLD Lyrics5:05
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15Cool Water Blues See All 2
16She Don't Love Me That Way See All 4
17Stop Breaking Down See All 14
18Joe Lee's Rock See All 9
19Bullyin' Well
20When You Get Home, Write Me a Few Lines
21Red Cross Store See All 8
22Forrest City Jump

Disc 3
1Death, Have Mercy See All 4
2I Want Jesus to Walk With Me * See All 14 $0.99
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3Jesus Is Real to Me See All 2
4I Love The Lord * See All 256:13 $0.99
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5Sermon Fragment
6I'm Goin' Home on the Mornin' Train See All 4
7Power * See All 240 [UNKNOWN ARTIST] POWER Lyrics4:13 $0.99
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8On That Rock
9Jesus On The Mainline See All 16
10I'm Gonna Sail Like a Ship On the Ocean
11Blow Gabriel See All 2
12What Do You Think About Jesus (He's Alright) See All 3
13Tribulations See All 7
14When I Get Home * See All 20 Explicit [UNKNOWN ARTIST] WHEN I GET HOME Lyrics $0.99
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15Poor Wayfaring Stranger See All 8
16Baptizing Down by the Creek
17Sermon and Lining Hymn
18Antioch See All 4
19Calvary * See All 20 Explicit3:02 $0.99
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20Please Let Me Stay a Little Longer
21Father, Jesus Loves You
22Lonesome Valley * See All 364:08 $0.99
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23Father Adieu
24Old Country Church * See All 37
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25Cabin on the Hill * See All 24 [UNKNOWN ARTIST] CABIN ON THE HILL Lyrics $0.99
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Disc 4
1Johnson's Old Gray Mule * See All 32:15 $0.99
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2My Little Rooster
3Whoa Mule See All 10
4Frog went a-courtin' * See All 141:32 $0.99
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5Glenn's Chimes
6Chick-a-Li-Lee-Lo See All 2
7Old Joe Clark * See All 663:17 $1.29
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8Go Tell Aunt Nancy
9Train III
10Johnny Cuckoo
11Mama Buy Me a Chiney Doll
12Soldier, Soldier See All 14
13Mary Mack See All 5
14Hambone See All 20 [UNKNOWN ARTIST] HAMBONE Lyrics
15Banging Breakdown
16Green Sally, Up
17Sometimes * See All 263 [UNKNOWN ARTIST] SOMETIMES Lyrics4:18 $0.99
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18Arkansas Traveller See All 9
19Paper of Pins See All 7
20Little Dappled Cow
21Go to Sleep, Little Baby See All 5
22Paddy on the Turnpike See All 16
23Jimmy Sutton See All 2
24Liza Jane * See All 27 [UNKNOWN ARTIST] LIZA JANE Lyrics3:16 $0.99
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25Oree
26Train Time See All 17
27Freight Train Blues * See All 47 [UNKNOWN ARTIST] FREIGHT TRAIN BLUES Lyrics3:05 $0.99
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28This Little Light of Mine * See All 128 [UNKNOWN ARTIST] THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE Lyrics3:10 $0.99
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29Motherless Children * See All 285:24 $0.99
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30Little Moses See All 9
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