Lomax LP Record Album Southern Journey 10 Yazoo Delta

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Here we have an original 1961 Alan Lomax LP Record Album, Southern Journey 10, Yazoo Delta Blues and Spirituals, a collection of field recordings from the South, Prestige International, plus a Lyrics Book. A magnificent addition to your American Folk Music collection. The legendary Alan Lomax (1915-2002), was a great field collector of folk music, and the first to record folk mega-stars like Leadbelly, Muddy Waters and Woody Guthrie. This LP album is the tenth in the Southern Journey series, and contains the following tracks:

61 Highway Blues

Jim and John

I'm Gonna Live Anyhow 'Till I Die

Little Sally Walker

Old Devil's Dream

Po' Boys Blues

Fred McDowell's Blues

Stewball

God's Unchanging Hand

Keep Your Lambs Trimmed and Burning

Tryin' to Make Heaven My Home

Soon One Mornin'

Mama Lucy

I'm Goin' Home

Louisiana

Berta Berta

The Yazoo River runs west from the hills of northeastern Mississippi, then makes a dog leg curve south to join the Mississippi. The red, gravely land along its westward course is known as "the hills," a region which was settled early, farmed hard by Southern planters and ultimately eroded terribly through a century of careless handling. Along it's southern course, west to the Mississippi lies the Yazoo Delta proper - fat, black cotton land that was rescued from the river floods by levees, and now is divided into enormous modern, factory-like plantations.

In Clarkesdale, Mississippi, the capital of the Delta and home of the blues, many known and unknown blues singers tried out their songs in the jooks. Bessie Smith (1894-1937), the most popular blues singer in the 1920s-30s, bled to death in its Negro Quarter from injuries she received in a car accident.

The hill country to the north however, has been a backwater in which various types of older music lived on. This album includes many levels of southern Negro dance music on Side A, and congregational songs and solo spirituals on Side B, which are no longer popular amoung the country people of the hills as the Gospel tradition replaced it. Echos of the work songs of the slave could be heard in the gangs of prisoners working in the State Penitentiary, which perpetuated the conditions that existed in slavery.

Alan Lomax traveled to these remote locations to record the tenth album right there on site.

Lomax died at the age of 87, as a pioneer of musicology. Even though the FBI investigated him for 37 years, they never succeeded in finding any evidence of any Communist associations. Lomax left us with a legacy that preserved traditional music and took it to a wider audience, for which we are all eternally grateful.

The album and lyrics book are in Excellent condition and the jacket is in Good condition.