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Folk Visions and Voices: Traditional Music and Song in Northern Georgia - Vol. 2

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Folk Visions and Voices: Traditional Music and Song in Northern Georgia - Vol. 2 Beginning in 1977, folklorist Art Rosenbaum traveled around northern Georgia making field recordings of singers who learned their music from the oral tradition. The outcome was a two-volume anthology and a book by the same title. The first half of Volume 2 features "black frolic songs, work songs and blues," to the accompaniment of guitar, banjo, harmonica, and fiddle. The second half features white "string band music, banjo tunes and songs." Rosenbaum's liner notes provide detailed information about the singers and each song, as well as song lyrics and photographs of the musicians and singers.

Track Listing

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Garfield J.C. "Jake" Staggers 02:48
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Sally Ann J.C. "Jake" Staggers 01:41
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John Henry (Old John Henry Died on the Mountain) Henry Grady Terrell 02:00
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Long-Legged Lula's Back in Town Cliff Sheats 03:32
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105
Railroad Bill Willie Hill 00:56
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106
Good Old Birmingham Willie Hill 02:43
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107
Low-Down Blues Neal Pattman 04:11
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108
Market Street Blues Joe Rakestraw 02:23
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Leavin' Here, Don't Know Where I'm Going Joe Rakestraw 04:04
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Prettiest Little Girl in the County-O Gordon Tanner, Smoky Joe Miller, and Uncle John Patterson 02:21
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Stagolee Was a Bully (Laws 115)(Stagger Lee) Uncle John Patterson 01:41
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203
Shoot That Turkey Buzzard Joe, Chesley, and Ralph Chancey 01:45
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Mulberry Gap Chesley Chancey 00:58
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Mole in the Ground Joe, Chesley, and Ralph Chancey 04:04
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206
Five Hundred Miles Chesley, Joe, Ralph, and Don Chancy, Gene Wiggins, and Art Rosenbaum 02:35
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207
Goin' Down This Road Feelin' Bad George Childers 03:12
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208
The Dying Girl Mabel Cawthorn 02:18
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209
Dawsonville Jail Ray Knight, Ed Teague, and Art Rosenbaum 03:05
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210
Sally Goodin' Ray Knight and Ed Teague 01:26
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211
Five to My Five Howard Finster 01:00
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Some Have Fathers Over Yonder Howard Finster 02:10