tracks

44 Blues
Mississippi Heavy Water Blues
Smokestack Lightning
Who Broke The Lock
You Don't Love Me
It's The Sign Of The Judgement
Foxhunt
Your Dice Won't Pass
Jelly Roll
I've Got Religion
Going Downtown Boogie
Stack O'Dollars
Brown Skin Woman
I Won't Be Your Low-Down Dog No More
The Piano Blues
Cotton Field Blues (On Mr Rollins' Farm)
The Farm Blues
The Boss Man Blues
Whoa Mule!
Boll Weevil Blues
Thousand Miles From Nowhere
Dead And Gone
Called For You Yesterday
Me & My Chauffeur
Baby Please Don't Go

notes

All tracks recorded on portable equipment in 1959, 1960, and 1962, except tracks 19 and 22-25, were which made in 1960.
Tracks 1, 3-6, 9, 12, 13, 15, 19, and 21-25 recorded at the home of Butch Cage in Zachary, Louisiana.
Tracks 2, 17, 18, 20 recorded at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
Track 7 recorded during a music therapy session at State Mental Hospital in Jackson, Louisiana.
Tracks 8 and 11 recorded at the home of Mable Lee Williams, Robert Pete Williams' sister, in Scotlandville, Louisiana.
Track 10 recorded at Rebecca Smith's house near Napoleonville, Louisiana.
Track 14 recorded at Leon Strickland's house in Killona, Louisiana.
Track 16 recorded during a visit to Smoky Babe's home area in Vance, Mississippi, in 1962.

Tracks 1-14 were originally issued on Folklyric LP 111, and later re-issued on Arhoolie LP 2018. Tracks 15-25 previously unissued.

"The common usage term for African-Americans has changed many times over the years and has included Negro, Colored, Black, Afro-American, and African-American. We have retained the term in usage at the time of these recordings."

Catalog number CD 372 on disc and back cover; catalog number CD372 on front cover.

© & ℗ 1959 & 1993 by Arhoolie Productions, Inc. Catalog number CD-372 on disc; catalog number CD 372 on back cover; catalog number CD372 on front cover.

© & ℗ 1959 & 1993 by Arhoolie Productions, Inc.

Printed in Canada.

credits

Design [Cover] – Wayne Pope
Photography By [Cover] – Dr. Harry Oster,
Producer [Cd Release], Edited By [Cd Release], Liner Notes – Chris Strachwitz
Recorded By – Chris Strachwitz (tracks: 19, 22 to 25), Dr. Harry Oster, (tracks: 1 to 18, 20, 21), Paul Oliver (tracks: 19, 22 to 25)
Design [Cover] – Wayne Pope
Photography By [Cover] – Dr. Harry Oster,
Producer [Cd Release], Edited By [Cd Release], Liner Notes – Chris Strachwitz
Recorded By – Chris Strachwitz (tracks: 19, 22 to 25), Dr. Harry Oster, (tracks: 1 to 18, 20, 21), Paul Oliver (tracks: 19, 22 to 25)

companies

Copyright (c) – Arhoolie Productions, Inc.
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Arhoolie Productions, Inc.
Recorded At – Louisiana State Penitentiary At Angola
Recorded At – State Mental Hospital In Jackson, Louisiana
Pressed By – Reel Picture Productions
Copyright (c) – Arhoolie Productions, Inc.
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Arhoolie Productions, Inc.
Recorded At – Louisiana State Penitentiary At Angola
Recorded At – State Mental Hospital In Jackson, Louisiana
Glass Mastered At – Nimbus

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