American Patchwork / Various American Patchwork / Various LP Vinyl

From 1978 to 1983, Alan Lomax and a video-crew traveled through the American South and Southwest, documenting it's traditional music - miners, moonshiners, and Primitive Baptists in Kentucky; flat-footers, string bands, and Piedmont blues in North Carolina; Cajun cowboys, fiddlers, and zydeco stompers in French-speaking Louisiana; and fife-and-drum ensembles, gospel quartets, former railroad track-liners, levee-camp muleskinners, and players on the pre-war blues circuit in Mississippi. This footage ultimately totaled some 350 hours and was edited into Lomax's "American Patchwork" series, which aired on American public television in 1991. But given the strictures of the form, hundreds of discrete performances and compelling scenes were left unseen and unheard. This set brings together the standout recordings Lomax made in his attempt to document the last vestiges of the "local surround" in Mississippi, Appalachia, and Louisiana. Intimate performances by R.L. Burnside, Tommy Jarrell, Boyd Rivers, Napoleon Strickland and many more form a rich tapestry of distinctly American musical traditions.

1. R.L. Burnside - See My Jumper 2. Janette and Joe Carter - Will You Miss Me 3. Sheila Kay Adams - Little Margaret 4. Sheila Kay Adams - Banjo Instrumental 5. Sheila Kay Adams - Dinah 6. Joe Savage - Peace In The Valley 7. Holly Springs Sacred Harp Singers - David's Lamentation (#248) 8. Vaughn Eller - Fly Around My Blue-Eyed Gal 9. Dennis McGee - Two Step De Eunice 10. Dink Roberts - Fox Chase 11. Laethe Eller - Way Up In The Bright New World 12. Boyd ; Ruth May Rivers - Somebody Touched Me 13. Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers - Give Me Just A Little More Time 14. Lois Short - Little Birdie 15. Dellie Chandler Norton - Early 16. Early In the Spring 17. Tommy Jarrell - Old Reuben 18. Canray Fontenot - Bonsoir Moreau 19. Ray Hicks - Reuben 20. Belton Sutherland - Blues #2 21. Nimrod Workman - Mother Jones’ Will 22. Napoleon Strickland ; the Como Drum Corp - My Babe 23. Lawrence Black Ardoin ; Band - Why You Wanna Make Me Cry 24. Moving Star Hall Singers - I’m Going To Trust In the Lord 25. Napoleon Strickland - Jesus Stop By Here 26. Boyd ; Ruth May Rivers - Fire Shed In My Bones