Playing For The Man At The Door: Field Recordings

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Playing For The Man At The Door: Field Recordings

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Release date: 08/Sep/2023
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Style: Classic Blues
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Details / Tracklist: Disc 01
MP3 Audio listen now for free 01. Hopkins, Lightnin' "Mojo Hand"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 02. Lipscomb, Mance "God Moves on the Water"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 03. Shaw, Robert "The Clinton"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 04. Kid Wiggins "Sugar Blues"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 05. Dudley Alexander and Washboard Band "St. James Infirmary"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 06. Davis, Cedell "Darlin' (You Know I Love You)"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 07. Dennis Gainus "You Gonna Look Like a Monkey"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 08. Grey Ghost "One Room Country Shack"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 09. Edwin "Buster" Pickens "Groceries on My Shelf (Piggly Wiggly)"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 10. Wilson, Hop "3 O'Clock Blues"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 11. Jealous James Stanchell "Anything from a Foot Race to a Resting Place"

Disc 02

MP3 Audio listen now for free 01. James Tisdom "Salty Dog Rag"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 02. Gozy Kilpatrick "Goin' to the River"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 03. Joe Patterson "Quills"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 04. Hopkins, Lightnin' "Ma Pa Cut the Cake"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 05. Otis Cook "Crazy About Oklahoma"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 06. Grey Ghost "Little Red Rooster"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 07. The Spiritual Light Gospel Group "My Work Will Be Done"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 08. James Tisdom "Steel Guitar Rag"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 09. Lipscomb, Mance "Tall Angel at the Bar"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 10. George "Bongo Joe" Coleman "This Whole World's in a Sad Condition"

Disc 03

MP3 Audio listen now for free 01. Hopkins, Lightnin' "World's in a Tangle"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 02. Shaw, Robert "Someday Baby"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 03. Davis, Cedell "It's Alright"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 04. R.C. Forest and Gozy Kilpatrick "Cryin' Won't Make Me Stay"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 05. Allen Van "China Tea"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 06. George "Bongo Joe" Coleman "Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 07. Hopkins, Lightnin' "Tom Moore's Farm"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 08. Lipscomb, Mance "Tom Moore's Farm"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 09. Jealous James Stanchell "Don't Do Me No Small Favors (Help the Bear)"

Disc 04

MP3 Audio listen now for free 01. Billy Bizor "Fox Chase"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 02. R.C. Forest "Black Widow Spider Blues"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 03. Hardy Gray "Come and Go with Me to That Land"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 04. Davis, Cedell "Rollin' and Tumblin'"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 05. Leroy "Country" Johnson with Edwin "Buster" Pickens "Train Roll Up"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 06. Edwin "Buster" Pickens "Shorty George"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 07. Joel Hopkins "Matchbox Blues"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 08. Blues Wallace "It's My Life Baby"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 09. Andrew Everett "Hello Central, Gimme 209"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 10. Jim Wilkie "Bad Lee Brown"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 11. R.C. Forest and Gozy Kilpatrick "Tin Can Alley Blues"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 12. Murl "Doc" Webster "Medicine Show Pitch"

Disc 05

MP3 Audio listen now for free 01. Lipscomb, Mance "So Different Blues"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 02. James Tisdom "I Feel So Good"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 03. Hopkins, Lightnin' "Mr. Charlie"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 04. Edwin "Buster" Pickens "The Ma Grinder"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 05. Paul Elliott "Deep Ellum Blues"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 06. Andrew Everett "K.C. Ain't Nothing but a Rag"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 07. Kid Wiggins "Lonesome Road"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 08. Dennis Gainus "Old Judge Blues"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 09. Melvin "Jack" Jackson and Lightnin' Hopkins "The Slop"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 10. Hopkins, Lightnin' "Corrine, Corrina"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 11. Jimmy Womack "Talking Blues"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 12. Joel Hopkins "Good Times Here, Better Times Down the Road"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 13. Shaw, Robert "Put Me in the Alley"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 14. Walter Britten "Auctioneer"

Disc 06

MP3 Audio listen now for free 01. Hardy Gray "Runaway"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 02. Wilson, Hop "Broke and Hungry"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 03. Mager Johnson "Big Road Blues"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 04. Lipscomb, Mance "Casey Jones"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 05. Jimmy Womack "Atomic Energy"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 06. Long Gone Miles with Lightnin' Hopkins and Love Crazy "Natural Born Lover"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 07. E.B. Busby "Swanee River Boogie"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 08. Long Gone Miles "Rock Me Baby"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 09. Hopkins, Lightnin' "Blues Jumped a Rabbit"
MP3 Audio listen now for free 10. George "Bongo Joe" Coleman "George Coleman for President, Nobody for Vice President"
Number of discs: 1
Extra-Infos: .. The Door: Field Recordings From The Collection Of Ma
Description:Playing For The Man At The Door: Field Recordings From The Collection Of Mack Mccormick 58-71 is an album by Mack Mccormick, released in 2023. The album is a blues 6-LP. - .. THE DOOR: FIELD RECORDINGS FROM THE COLLECTION OF MA
In the 1950s and 60s, the blues was the dominant form of Black vernacular music throughout Texas andthe surrounding areas. In segregated neighborhoods, community members gathered in saloons,dancehalls, and each other's homes to hear their neighbors sing their stories of sorrow, heartbreak,jubilation, and triumph. Robert "Mack" McCormick, an academically untrained but fanatical devotee ofthe blues, stepped into this world and became one of it's most devout advocates and documentarians.By photographing Black and Latino Texans and their neighborhoods, as well as recording andinterviewing musicians-many of whom never stepped foot into a proper recording studio-McCormickendeared and eventually embedded himself into these communities. By the time he died in 2015,McCormick had amassed a collection of 590 reels of sound recordings and 165 boxes of manuscripts,original interviews and research notes, thousands of photographs and negatives, playbills, and posters.Because McCormick never published or released most of these materials, his collection became a thingof legend and intense speculation among scholars, blues aficionados, and musicians alike.Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick, 1958-1971 isthe first compilation of music drawn from this fabled collection, which indelibly documents a pivotalmoment in African American history. It features never-before-heard performances not only frommusicians who became icons in their own right-including Lightnin' Hopkins and Mance Lipscomb-butalso, crucially, performers whose names may be unfamiliar to even the most devoted blues fans andscholars. Newly mastered recordings and accompanying photographs bring to life many of theseforgotten figures: offering insight into their lives and illuminating in new, enlightening ways their joysand anguish, deep social connections, distinctive voices, and cultural networks. The collection spansgospels, ragtime, country blues dirges, the unclassifiable music of George "Bongo Joe" Coleman, andmore, showing that no community, no matter how tight knit, is monolithic.Accompanying the music is a 128-page book, which contains breathtaking photographs by McCormickand his associates, as well as contextual essays by producers Jeff Place and John Troutman onMcCormick's life, and by musicians Mark Puryear and Dom Flemons on some of the marginalizedcommunities throughout "Greater Texas" to which McCormick devoted his life's work. This release is apartnership with the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
Accompanying the music is a 128-page book, which contains breathtaking photographs by McCormick and his associates, as well as contextual essays by producers Jeff Place and John Troutman on McCormick?s life, and by musicians Mark Puryear and Dom Flemons on some of the marginalized communities throughout ?Greater Texas? to which McCormick devoted his life?s work. This release is a partnership with the Smithsonian?s National Museum of American History. Mastered at Tonal Park, Takoma Park, MD Audio Restoration at Tonal Park, Takoma Park, MD Analog to digital transfers Center For Folklife And Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC A1: from tape 424, SH15/16, recorded March 15, 1962, Houston, Texas A2: from tape 480, ML18, recorded April, 1963 A3: from tape 023, FR21, recorded possibly March 1963, Austin, Texas A4: from tape 014, FR13, recorded May 1961 A5: from tape 002, FR4, recorded April 1959, Houston, Texas A6: from tape 523, recorded December 1969, Arkansas B1: from the [url=https://www.discogs.com/release/3245859]Treasury of Field Recordings, vol. 1[/url]; recorded May 1, 1959 B2: from 035, FR36, recorded November 1964 B3: from tape 047, FR55, possibly recorded August 1960 B4: from tape 058, FR46, recorded March 9, 1966, Houston, Texas B5: from the [url=https://www.discogs.com/release/7755472]Treasury of Field Recordings, vol. 2[/url]; recorded July 13, 1959, Houston, Texas C1: from tape 018, FRD 16/17 recorded possibly 1968, Corpus Christi, Texas C2: from the [url=https://www.discogs.com/release/7755472]Treasury of Field Recordings, vol. 2[/url]; recorded March 1959, Houston, Texas C3: from tape 511, recorded July 18, 1968, Searcy Hospital, Mt. Vernon, Alabama C4: from tape 051, L0D1, recorded March 15, 1962, Houston, Texas C5: from tape 540; recorded September 14, 1971, Elgin, Texas C6: from 035, FR36, recorded November 1964 C7: from tape 508 D1: from tape 020, FR18; recorded possibly 1968, Corpus Christi, Texas D2: from tape 491; recorded April 14, 1962 D3: from tape 005, FR6, recorded,
"Playing For The Man At The Door: Field Recordings" is a remarkable LP compilation released by Smithsonian Folkways, featuring an extraordinary selection of field recordings that capture the rich and diverse tapestry of American roots music. This collection brings together rare and previously unreleased tracks recorded between 1947 and 1966, offering listeners an authentic glimpse into the lives, struggles, and artistry of African American musicians in the Upper Midwest. With genres ranging from blues to gospel to folk, this album serves as both a historical document and a celebration of musical heritage. Smithsonian Folkways is renowned for its dedication to preserving cultural soundscapes from around the world; their releases are meticulously curated with deep respect for authenticity and context. Through projects like this one, they continue their mission to educate audiences about global traditions while honoring unsung voices.
No. of tracks: 66
Manufacturer No.: SFWLP40260
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