Folk Visions & Voices 2 / Var Folk Visions & Voices 2 / Var CD

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.

1. Garfield 2. Sally Ann 3. John Henry (Old John Henry Died on the Mountain) 4. Long-Legged Lula's Back in Town 5. Railroad Bill 6. Good Old Birmingham 7. Low-Down Blues 8. Market Street Blues 9. Leavin' Here, Don't Know Where I'm Going 10. Prettiest Little Girl in the County-O 11. Stagolee Was a Bully (Laws 115)(Stagger Lee) 12. Shoot That Turkey Buzzard 13. Mulberry Gap 14. Mole in the Ground 15. Five Hundred Miles 16. Goin' Down This Road Feelin' Bad 17. The Dying Girl 18. Dawsonville Jail 19. Sally Goodin' 20. Five to My Five 21. Some Have Fathers Over Yonder