tracks

Sermon On Pancakes
The Blood's Done Signed Your Name
Come Down To See Me Sometime
Lost John
Soldier's Drill
Gallows Pole
Leaving Blues
Slow Blues In E
Starvation Blues
Black Biting Bee Blues
Mountain Jack
I Didn't Want To Join The Band
A Rag
Raggin' The Blues
Old Country Rock
Poor Boy
Poor Boy
Mississippi Bo Weevil Blues
Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues
Mississippi Jail House Groan
Ham Hound Crave
Seven Sisters Blues
Hard Dallas Blues
Back Gnawing Blues
Going Crazy

notes

Tracks 1 to 8, 11, 12 are previously unpublished:
1, 2, 6, 7: radio broadcast, February 14, 1941.
3 to 5, 8, 11, 12: home recording, 1956-57.

Recordings from the Harry Smith Collection, N.Y. Public Library:
9: c. October 1928; 20923-2 / Paramount 12707.
10: c. November 1926; 4013-3 / Paramount 12444.
13: June 14, 1929; 15212 / Paramount 12814.
14, 15: c. January 1928; 20324, 20323 / Parmount 12761.
16: c. November 1927; 21044-2 / Paramount 12571.
17: c. November 1928; 21020-4 / Paramount 12722.
18, 19: June 14, 1929; 15211, 15214 / Paramount 12805.
20, 21: March 1928; 20419-2, 20420-3 / Paramount 12629.
22: October 23, 1929; GEX 2413 / Paramount 12873.
23: c. November 1928; 21018 / Paramount 12708.
24: c. February 1928; 20344-2 / Paramount 12609.

Restoration: Studio FS Roma.

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Made in the U.S.A.

credits

Graphics – John Wilton
Interviewee [Booklet] – Rev. Gary Davis
Interviewer [Booklet] – Elizabeth Lyttleton Harold
Photography By [Back] – Sol Libsohn
Photography By [Cover] – Don Schlitten
Producer, Liner Notes – Allan Evans
Recorded By – Fred Gerlach (tracks: 3 to 5, 8, 11, 12), Tiny Robinson (tracks: 3 to 5, 8, 11, 12)
Transcription By [Help With Transcribing The Lyrics] – Ari Eisinger, Banjochris, Richard Spottswood, Gregory Harrison Briggler
Transferred By – New York Public Library

companies

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Engineered At – Studio FS Roma

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