Library of Congress Texas compilation

POAAAM/3/1/4/32

Library of Congress Texas compilation

c1960s

Duration: 2:07:29

Compilation of 1930s/1940s field recordings of Texas blues made by John Lomax for the Library of Congress, mostly in state penitentiaries. The recordings are mostly of a fragmentary nature, with beginnings and endings of songs cut off. This compilation appears to have been assigned the reference number ‘C1’, but this does not correspond to any of Oliver’s other tape series.

Side 1:

[0:00:05] 01. Pete Harris - Square Dance Calls
[0:02:12] 02. Pete Harris - He Rambled
[0:04:06] 03. Pete Harris - The Buffalo Skinners
[0:05:43] 04. Pete Harris - Blind Lemon’s Song
[0:08:28] 05. Pete Harris - The Red Cross Store
[0:09:48] 06. Pete Harris - Alabama Bound
[0:11:25] 07. Pete Harris - Is You Mad at Me
[0:14:00] 08. Pete Harris - Thirty Days in Jail
[0:14:59] 09. Pete Harris - Carrie
[0:16:14] 10. Pete Harris - Standing on the Border
[0:17:01] 11. Pete Harris - Jack o’ Diamonds [89 B1]
[0:19:01] 12. Pete Harris - Jack o’ Diamonds [89 B2]
[0:21:02] 13. Pete Harris - Jack and Betsy
[0:22:20] 14. Augustus Haggerty (aka Track Horse) with Jack Johnson - I Met You Mama, 1929
[0:25:43] 15. Augustus Haggerty - I Feel That Old Woman Is a Jinx to Me
[0:26:59] 16. Little Brother - Up and Down (Mobile &) Building K.C. Line
[0:29:53] 17. Convict [unnamed] - Howling Wolf Blues
[0:30:58] 18. Tricky Sam - Stavin’ Chain [210 A]
[0:33:52] 19. Augustus Haggerty - Police Special
[0:36:32] 20. Augustus Haggerty - Hattie Green
[0:38:35] 21. Tricky Sam - Stavin’ Chain [215 A]
[0:41:54] 22. V. R. Parker - Gambling Blackie
[0:43:55] 23. Tricky Sam - Ella Speed
[0:48:26] 24. Jack Johnson - It Was Early One Morning
[0:51:49] 25. V. R. Parker - Let Me Roll Easy, Let Me Roll Slow
[0:54:55] 26. Milton Locke - Oozing Daddy
[0:57:49] 27. Oscar Woods - Boll Weevil
[1:00:33] 28. Oscar Woods - Don’t Sell It

Side 2:

[1:02:52] 29. Oscar Woods - Sometimes I Get A-Thinkin’ [3989 A]
[1:06:02] 30. Oscar Woods - Sometimes I Get A-Thinkin’ [3989 B]
[1:09:27] 31. Oscar Woods - Look Here Babe One Thing I Got to Say [followed by brief interview with Lomax]
[1:13:05] 32. Ace Johnson with L. W. Gooden - Mama Don’t ‘Low No Swingin’ Out in Here
[1:14:15] 33. Smith Casey - I Wouldn’t Mind Dying If Dying Was All
[1:15:55] 34. Smith Casey - When I Get Home
[1:17:56] 35. Smith Casey - Gray Horse Blues
[1:19:24] 36. Smith Casey - Shorty George
[1:22:40] 37. Smith Casey - West Texas Blues
[1:24:25] 38. Smith Casey - Santa Fe Blues
[1:29:02] 39. Smith Casey - Hesitating Blues
[1:33:42] 40. Wallace Chains & Sylvester Jones - My Pore [sic] Mother Keeps A-Prayin’ for Me
[1:36:15] 41. Wallace Chains & Sylvester Jones - Smoky Mountain Blues
[1:38:56] 42. Wallace Chains & Sylvester Jones - Ella Speed
[1:40:28] 43. Richard Lewis with Wilbert Gilliam - Long Freight Train Blues
[1:43:17] 44. Hattie Ellis with Jesse Ramsay - Desert Blues
[1:45:51] 45. Hattie Ellis - I Ain’t Got Nobody
[1:48:48] 46. Smith Casey - Jack o’ Diamonds
[1:50:45] 47. Smith Casey - Mournful Blues
[1:53:18] 48. Smith Casey - Two White Horses Standing in Line
[1:56:00] 49. Smith Casey - East Texas Rag
[1:58:27] 50. Ace Johnson - Rabbit in de Garden
[2:01:34] 51. Jesse Lockett - Worry Blues
[2:03:05] 52. W. S. Harrison - Worry Blues
[2:05:23] 53. Mose Platt - Ain’t No More Cane on the Brazos

Original file name: POAAAM - C1 LC-Texas

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