Various Artists
Southern Journey: 61 Highway Mississippi (Volume 3)
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Format:  ARC
Genre:  National Folk
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Henry Ratcliff - Louisiana    1:43
      2.  
      		 Ed Young & others - Jim And John    2:12
      3.  
      		 Fred McDowell - 61 Highway Blues    3:08
      4.  
      		 Ed Lewis & prisoners - Stewball    3:25
      5.  
      		 John Dudley - Po' Boy Blues    3:19
      6.  
      		 A. Burton & Congregation - God's Unchanging Hand    1:44
      7.  
      		 Fred McDowell - Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning    2:45
      8.  
      		 Sid Hemphill, Lucius Smith - Emmaline, Take Your Time    1:43
      9.  
      		 Miles & Bob Pratcher - I'm Gonna Live Anyhow 'Till I Die    2:35
      10.  
      		 Mattie Gardner, Ida Mae Towns, Jesse Lee Pratcher - Little Sally Walker    0:52
      11.  
      		 Sid Hemphill, Lucius Smith - Old Devil's Dream    1:49
      12.  
      		 Rose Hemphill - Rolled And Tumbled    2:56
      13.  
      		 Leroy Gary - Mama Lucy    1:36
      14.  
      		 Fred McDowell - Soon One Mornin'    3:18
      15.  
      		 Ervin Webb, with prisoners - I'm Goin' Home    3:22
      16.  
      		 with Ervin Webb - Interview    0:53
      17.  
      		 Fred McDowell, Moles Pratcher, Fanny Davis - Fred McDowell's Blues    4:12
      18.  
      		 Viola James & Congregation - Tryin' To Make Heaven My Home    2:19
      19.  
      		 Leroy Miller, with hoe group - Berta, Berta    4:43
      20.  
      		 Fred McDowell - Germany Blues    3:11
      21.  
      		 John Dudley - Clarksdale Mill Blues    2:21
      22.  
      		 Miles & Bob Pratcher - If It's All Night Long    3:02
      23.  
      		 Fred McDowell - Lord Have Mercy    1:53
      24.  
      		 Mrs. Sidney Carter - Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby    1:03
      Twenty-four tracks from Alan Lomax's 1959 blues recordings in Mississippi, five previously unreleased. Fred McDowell (who has five songs) is the "star," you might say, of these sessions; he would go on to establish a successful performing and recording career, and is the only name recognizable to most listeners. This is an effective document, however, of the different strands of country blues and their roots. It includes not just rural Delta guitar blues, but also field hollers, spirituals, prison songs, fife-and-drum tunes, and Sid Hemphill's quills. Lomax would later note that when he revisited the area 20 years later, most of these forms had all but disappeared from view. This disc is a good reminder of how blues developed from several African-American Southern folk traditions whose influence has sometimes been underestimated.