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01. Robert Dennis - Early One Foggy Morning
02. Robert Dennis - Boogie
03. Robert Dennis - Questionnaire Blues *
04. Robert Dennis - Mean Mistreater Blues *
05. Richard Williams - Tain't But the One Thing That Grieves My Mind *
06. Richard Williams - Baby, Please Don't Go *
07. Richard Williams - Old Forty
08. Ella Mae Wilson and Richard Williams - Careless Love
09. Ella Mae Wilson and Richard Williams - Polk County Blues
10. Willie Gillard - Polk County Blues
11. Emmett Murray - Old-Time Rounders
12. Emmett Murray - She's a Fool, She Ain't Got No Sense
13. Emmett Murray - Mobile Blues
14. Emmett Murray - I'm Gonna Dig Myself a Hole
15. Emmett Murray - I'll Find My Way *
16. Emmett Murray - Drinkin' Bad Bad Whiskey *
17. Moses Williams - I'm from Itta Bena, Mississippi *
18. Moses Williams - Rolling and Tumbling
19. Moses Williams - Sitting on Top of the World
20. Moses Williams - Mama Got More Out of Me Away from Home *
21. Moses Williams - I Was Natalie Roberta's Son *
22. Moses Williams - Harmonica Solo *
23. Moses Williams - Harmonica 'Hustle' *
24. Moses Williams - The Train *
25. Moses Williams - Catfish Blues *
26. Moses Williams - Come Back, Baby *
27. Moses Williams - Apple Farm Blues *
28. Moses Williams - 13 Highway *
29. Moses Williams - Which Way Did My Baby Go?
01. Johnny Brown - That's All Right
02. Johnny Brown - Precious Lord, Take My Hand
03. Johnny Brown - Will the Circle Be Unbroken *
04. Johnny Brown - He Got the Whole World in His Hand *
05. Johnny Brown - I Don't Know What I'd Do without the Lord *
06. Ella Mae Wilson, Lillie B. Williams, and Richard Williams - Motherless Children
07. Ella Mae Wilson, Lillie B. Williams, and Richard Williams - Do, Lord, Remember Me
08. Ella Mae Wilson, Lillie B. Williams, and Richard Williams - Trial in Judgment
09. Ella Mae Wilson, Lillie B. Williams, and Richard Williams - When the Saints Go Marching In (When the Moon Go Down in Blood)
10. Ella Mae Wilson, Lillie B. Williams, and Richard Williams - You Got to Move *
11. Ella Mae Wilson, Lillie B. Williams, and Richard Williams - I Knew It Was the Blood *
12. Ella Mae Wilson, Lillie B. Williams, and Richard Williams - In the Morning *
13. Ella Mae Wilson, Lillie B. Williams, and Richard Williams - He's a Battle Axe *
14. Testerina Primitive Baptist Church - I Don't Know What I'd Do without the Lord/Did Christ o'er Sinners Weep? (The Weeping Savior)
15. Miccosukee Church of God of Prophecy - Altar Call/Congregational Prayer/He Set Me Free
16. Florida-Alabama Progressive Seven-Shape-Note Singing Convention - God's Gonna Set the World on Fire
17. Florida-Alabama Progressive Seven-Shape-Note Singing Convention - Inside the Pearly Gates
18. Southeast Alabama And Florida Union Sacred Harp Singing Convention - The Old Ship of Zion
19. Southeast Alabama And Florida Union Sacred Harp Singing Convention - Florida Storm
20. Southeast Alabama And Florida Union Sacred Harp Singing Convention - Service of the Lord *
21. Southeast Alabama And Florida Union Sacred Harp Singing Convention - Sweet Morning *
22. Southeast Alabama And Florida Union Sacred Harp Singing Convention - Alas! and Did My Saviour Bleed *
23. Southeast Alabama And Florida Union Sacred Harp Singing Convention - Pisgah *
24. Southeast Alabama And Florida Union Sacred Harp Singing Convention - Parting Hand *
ARTIST
TITLE
Drop on Down in Florida: Field Recordings of African American Traditional Music 1977-1980
FORMAT
2CD/BOOK

LABEL
CATALOG #
DTD 024CD DTD 024CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
11/6/2012

Based on four years of fieldwork throughout the state, the Florida Folklife Program released the two-album, 27-track LP Drop on Down in Florida: Recent Field Recordings of Afro-American Traditional Music in 1981. The album was intended to highlight African American music traditions for a statewide public audience, particularly blues and sacred traditions. When the Folklife Program sought the opportunity to produce an expanded reissue of the album that would include previously unissued fieldwork recordings and photos, Dust-to-Digital, an award-winning record label known for specially packaged re-releases of American vernacular music, agreed to release it. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork materials now housed in the State Archives of Florida, the expanded edition includes all of the recordings from the original double LP, plus nearly 80 minutes of audio available for the first time on 28 new tracks. Complimenting the two CDs is a 224-page hardback book containing the original liner notes, plus new essays, annotations and 60 images (most of which are published for the first time). Notable among the previously unreleased tracks are additional musical selections and personal narratives from one-string musician Moses Williams, four-shape-note Sacred Harp singing from an African American community in the Florida Panhandle, and recordings from the Richard Williams family in the blues and gospel-blues traditions. The reissue also includes new track notes from respected music scholars David Evans and Doris J. Dyen; reflective essays from past and present folklorists with the Florida Folklife Program, including Peggy A. Bulger, Dwight DeVane, Doris J. Dyen, and Blaine Waide; and an extensive essay on African American one-string instrument traditions by David Evans. This edition highlights the significance of the previously unreleased material. In addition, it calls attention to the importance of the original LP and makes it available once again, this time to a larger audience.