Various - Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection

Description: Various - Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection Artist: Various Title: Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick 58–71 Condition: Format: CD Release Date: 2023 Label: Smithsonian Folkways UPC: 093074026021 Genre: Blues Album Tracks1. Mojo Hand - Lightnin' Hopkins2. God Moves on the Water - Mance Lipscomb3. The Clinton - Robert Shaw4. Sugar Blues - Kid Wiggins5. St. James Infirmary - Dudley Alexander and Washboard Band6. Darlin' (You Know I Love You) - Cedell Davis7. You Gonna Look Like a Monkey - Dennis Gainus8. One Room Country Shack - Grey Ghost9. Groceries on My Shelf (Piggly Wiggly) - Edwin "Buster" Pickens10. 3 O'Clock Blues - Hop Wilson11. Anything from a Foot Race to a Resting Place - Jealous James Stanchell12. Salty Dog Rag - James Tisdom13. Goin' to the River - Gozy Kilpatrick14. Quills - Joe Patterson15. Ma Pa Cut the Cake - Lightnin' Hopkins16. Crazy About Oklahoma - Otis Cook17. Little Red Rooster - Grey Ghost18. My Work Will Be Done - the Spiritual Light Gospel Group19. Steel Guitar Rag - James Tisdom20. Tall Angel at the Bar - Mance Lipscomb21. This Whole World's in a Sad Condition - George "Bongo Joe" Coleman22. World's in a Tangle - Lightnin' Hopkins23. Someday Baby - Robert Shaw24. It's Alright - Cedell Davis25. Cryin' Won't Make Me Stay - R.C. Forest and Gozy Kilpatrick26. China Tea - Allen Van27. Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is - George "Bongo Joe" Coleman28. Tom Moore's Farm - Lightnin' Hopkins29. Tom Moore's Farm - Mance Lipscomb30. Don't Do Me No Small Favors (Help the Bear) - Jealous James Stanchell31. Fox Chase - Billy Bizor32. Black Widow Spider Blues - R.C. Forest33. Come and Go with Me to That Land - Hardy Gray34. Rollin' and Tumblin' - Cedell Davis35. Train Roll Up - Leroy "Country" Johnson with Edwin "Buster" Pickens36. Shorty George - Edwin "Buster" Pickens37. Matchbox Blues - Joel Hopkins38. It's My Life Baby - Blues Wallace39. Hello Central, Gimme 209 - Andrew Everett40. Bad Lee Brown - Jim Wilkie41. Tin Can Alley Blues - R.C. Forest and Gozy Kilpatrick42. Medicine Show Pitch - Murl "Doc" Webster43. So Different Blues - Mance Lipscomb44. I Feel So Good - James Tisdom45. Mr. Charlie - Lightnin' Hopkins46. The Ma Grinder - Edwin "Buster" Pickens47. Deep Ellum Blues - Paul Elliott48. K.C. Ain't Nothing But a Rag - Andrew Everett49. Lonesome Road - Kid Wiggins50. Old Judge Blues - Dennis Gainus51. The Slop - Melvin "Jack" Jackson and Lightnin' Hopkins52. Corrine, Corrina - Lightnin' Hopkins53. Talking Blues - Jimmy Womack54. Good Times Here, Better Times Down the Road - Joel Hopkins55. Put Me in the Alley - Robert Shaw56. Auctioneer - Walter Britten57. Runaway - Hardy Gray58. Broke and Hungry - Hop Wilson59. Big Road Blues - Mager Johnson60. Casey Jones - Mance Lipscomb61. Atomic Energy - Jimmy Womack62. Natural Born Lover - Long Gone Miles with Lightnin' Hopkins and Love Crazy63. Swanee River Boogie - E.B. Busby64. Rock Me Baby - Long Gone Miles65. Blues Jumped a Rabbit - Lightnin' Hopkins66. George Coleman for President, Nobody for Vice President - George "Bongo Joe" Coleman In the 1950s and 60s, the blues was the dominant form of Black vernacular music throughout Texas and the 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 of the 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 and interviewing musicians-many of whom never stepped foot into a proper recording studio-McCormick endeared 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 thing of 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 is the first compilation of music drawn from this fabled collection, which indelibly documents a pivotal moment in African American history. It features never-before-heard performances not only from musicians who became icons in their own right-including Lightnin' Hopkins and Mance Lipscomb-but also, crucially, performers whose names may be unfamiliar to even the most devoted blues fans and scholars. Newly mastered recordings and accompanying photographs bring to life many of these forgotten figures: offering insight into their lives and illuminating in new, enlightening ways their joys and anguish, deep social connections, distinctive voices, and cultural networks. The collection spans gospels, ragtime, country blues dirges, the unclassifiable music of George "Bongo Joe" Coleman, and more, showing that no community, no matter how tight knit, is monolithic. 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.© DirectToU LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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