tracks

Fox Chase
Buck Dance By Harry Rutledge
Take Rocks And Gravel To Make A Solid Road – Railroad Blues
Me And My Short Box (Or Pork Chop)
Saturday Night Hoe-Down
I Feel Good Now, Baby
Blind Child
Head-Shoulder Baby
I Asked My Mother For Fifty Cents
Talk About Jesus
Blues
Hootchie Kootchie
It's Tight Like That
See See Mama
Memphis Mail
Buck Dance By Joe Tucker
Forty-Four Blues
Easy Rider

notes

Professionally printed CDr on-demand reissue of the 1956 LP on Folkways Records. Enhanced CDr includes a .PDF file of the booklet included with the original LP release.

Tracks 1-3 recorded near Cahaba River, Perry County, Alabama, April 10, 1954. Tracks 4-6 and 10 recorded near Dobine Creek, Perry County, Alabama, April 17, 1954. Tracks 7-9 recorded near Dobine Creek, Perry County, Alabama, May 8, 1954. Tracks 11-14 recorded in Vicksburg, Mississippi, June 29, 1954. Track 15 recorded near Old River Lake, Mississippi, June 24, 1954. Tracks 16-17 recorded near Pond, Mississippi, June 25, 1954. Track 18 recorded in Pond, Mississippi, June 25, 1954.

© 1956 Folkways Records & Service Corp.
℗© 2006 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.

credits

Design [Original Cover] – Ronald Clyne
Guitar – Philip Ramsey (tracks: 10), Tom Johnson (11) (tracks: 11, 12)
Guitar, Vocals – Mrs. Philip Ramsey (tracks: 4), Philip Ramsey (tracks: 6), Scott Dunbar (tracks: 15 to 18), Tom Johnson (11) (tracks: 13, 14)
Harmonica – Horace Sprott (tracks: 2, 5, 6)
Harmonica, Vocals – Horace Sprott (tracks: 1, 3)
Mandolin – John Copeland (3) (tracks: 11 to 14)
Performer [Dancing] – Rosie Dunbar (tracks: 18)
Vocals – Berenice Ford (tracks: 7 to 10), Bessie Lee Daniels (tracks: 7 to 9), Celeste Dunbar (tracks: 18), Eunice Ford (tracks: 7 to 9), Rosemary Daniels (tracks: 10)

companies

Copyright (c) – Folkways Records & Service Corp.
Copyright (c) – Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

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