SCARCE BLUES LP Negro Religious Songs & Services (AAFS L10) NEW
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Description
Folk Music of the United States: Negro Religious Songs and Services / Edited by B. A. Botkin (The Library of Congress / Music Division / Recording Laboratory / AAFS L10).
In the lengthy series of LPs produced by the Library of Congress, derived from recordings made by the Lomaxes and others for the Archive of American Folk Song during the 1930s and '40s. This one contains sacred songs with harmonica by Turner Jr Johnson, Kelly Pace and others' remarkable Holy Babe, two songs with banjo by Jimmie Strothers, songs by Dock Reed & Vera Hall, and the incomparable Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down by Bozie Sturdivant. On black vinyl. No booklet.
Do, Lord, Remember Me/House Done built Without Hands/Oh, The Lamb of God, The Lord Done Sanctified Me/We Are Almost Down to the Shore/Down on Me/Certainly, Lord/Wasn't That a Mighty Storm &c -- 15 songs in all.
Condition: mint dealer's stock copy that has never been played. Like new. Scarce and historically important.
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