℗ 2024 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
| Released | June 14, 2024 |
| Duration | 1h 11m 26s |
| Record Label | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings |
| Catalogue No. | SFW40258 |
| Genre | Blues |
The Complete Friends of Old-Time Music Concert (Live)
Georgia Sea Island Singers, Mississippi Fred McDowell
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
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1.1
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Introduction by Alan Lomax / Travelin' Shoes (Live)
Georgia Sea Island Singers; Bessie Jones |
2:29 | |||
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1.2
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Handclapping - Cane Fife (Live / feat. Ed Young)
Georgia Sea Island Singers; Bessie Jones; Ed Young |
3:07 | |||
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1.3
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Buzzard Lope (Dance) - In That Old Field (Live)
Georgia Sea Island Singers; Bessie Jones |
2:12 | |||
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1.4
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Josephine (Live)
Georgia Sea Island Singers; Bessie Jones |
1:14 | |||
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1.5
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Goodbye My Riley O (Live)
Georgia Sea Island Singers; John Davis |
2:41 | |||
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1.6
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Go Row the Boat Child (Live)
Georgia Sea Island Singers; Peter Davis |
1:39 | |||
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1.7
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Join the Band (Live)
Georgia Sea Island Singers; John Davis |
1:26 | |||
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1.8
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Sink 'Em Low (Live)
Georgia Sea Island Singers; Bessie Jones |
2:29 | |||
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1.9
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Going Down to the River (Live)
Mississippi Fred McDowell |
3:30 | |||
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1.10
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Shake 'Em on Down (Live / feat. Mable Hillery)
Mississippi Fred McDowell; Mable Hillery |
3:04 | |||
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1.11
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Once There Was No Sun (Live)
Georgia Sea Island Singers; Bessie Jones |
2:40 | |||
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1.12
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Adam in the Garden (Live)
Georgia Sea Island Singers; John Davis |
1:26 | |||
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1.13
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Who Built the Ark (Live)
Georgia Sea Island Singers; Bessie Jones |
1:38 | |||
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1.14
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Let My Children Go (Live)
Georgia Sea Island Singers; John Davis |
3:19 | |||
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1.15
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My God Is a Rock (Live)
Georgia Sea Island Singers; Peter Davis |
4:14 | |||
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1.16
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I Heard the Angels Singing (Live / feat. Mississippi Fred McDowell)
Georgia Sea Island Singers; Mable Hillery; Mississippi Fred McDowell |
3:11 | |||
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1.17
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Read 'Em John (Live)
Georgia Sea Island Singers; John Davis |
1:37 | |||
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1.18
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Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning (Live)
Georgia Sea Island Singers; Mississippi Fred McDowell |
3:32 | |||
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1.19
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Sign of the Judgment (Live)
Georgia Sea Island Singers; Bessie Jones |
2:45 | |||
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1.20
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Chevrolet (Live)
Ed Young; Emma Lee Ramsey |
4:22 | |||
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1.21
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Write Me a Few of Your Lines (Live)
Mississippi Fred McDowell |
3:29 | |||
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1.22
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Don't Ever Leave Me (Live)
Mississippi Fred McDowell; Mable Hillery |
3:56 | |||
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1.23
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Marching on the Mississippi Line (Live / feat. Emma Lee Ramsey)
Mable Hillery; Emma Lee Ramsey |
3:12 | |||
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1.24
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Down to the Mire (Live)
Georgia Sea Island Singers; John Davis |
3:18 | |||
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1.25
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Before This Time Another Year (Live)
Georgia Sea Island Singers; Bessie Jones |
4:56 |
Bessie Jones, John Davis, and the Georgia Sea Island Singers gained wide renown during the 1960s and ‘70s for their powerful performances of traditional songs from the African American Gullah Geechee community on St. Simons Island, Georgia. Most in the group were born and raised on St. Simons, and could trace their ancestry to the enslaved West and Central Africans who worked on the island’s cotton plantations. Throughout the ‘60s, the Georgia Sea Island Singers were prominent voices in the civil rights movement, bringing hundreds of years of Black musical tradition to bear on a pivotal time in American history. This previously unheard recording captures their complete Friends of Old Time Music concert of April 1965, at which they were joined by legendary bluesman Mississippi Fred McDowell, cane fife player Ed Young, and folklorist Alan Lomax, who acted as emcee. The album showcases a variety of traditional music from the Island and beyond, including stirring work songs, emotionally charged spirituals, jubilant songs for children, and revelatory renditions of Mississippi blues.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Studio Masters
Tracks 1-25 – contains high-resolution digital transfers of material originating from an analogue master source Track 25 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 96 kHz / 24-bit
Tracks 1-25 – contains high-resolution digital transfers of material originating from an analogue master source Track 25 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 96 kHz / 24-bit
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -1.28 -4.69 to -0.30 | -22.42 -27.94 to -19.28 | -17.97 -24.40 to -13.20 | 15 11 to 22 | |
| 1 | Introduction by Alan Lomax / Travelin' Shoes (Live) | -1.20 | -21.63 | -16.2 | 14 |
| 2 | Handclapping - Cane Fife (Live / feat. Ed Young) | -0.80 | -27.74 | -23.1 | 20 |
| 3 | Buzzard Lope (Dance) - In That Old Field (Live) | -0.80 | -23.02 | -19.4 | 16 |
| 4 | Josephine (Live) | -0.55 | -27.94 | -24.4 | 22 |
| 5 | Goodbye My Riley O (Live) | -2.00 | -21.60 | -17.3 | 12 |
| 6 | Go Row the Boat Child (Live) | -1.50 | -22.35 | -18.1 | 14 |
| 7 | Join the Band (Live) | -2.70 | -21.32 | -17.7 | 13 |
| 8 | Sink 'Em Low (Live) | -1.39 | -21.17 | -16.6 | 12 |
| 9 | Going Down to the River (Live) | -2.46 | -24.52 | -20.5 | 13 |
| 10 | Shake 'Em on Down (Live / feat. Mable Hillery) | -2.32 | -22.54 | -16.6 | 14 |
| 11 | Once There Was No Sun (Live) | -0.58 | -23.09 | -18.3 | 16 |
| 12 | Adam in the Garden (Live) | -0.46 | -19.39 | -13.2 | 13 |
| 13 | Who Built the Ark (Live) | -0.75 | -22.63 | -19.1 | 16 |
| 14 | Let My Children Go (Live) | -0.30 | -22.82 | -19.2 | 16 |
| 15 | My God Is a Rock (Live) | -0.30 | -21.85 | -18.0 | 15 |
| 16 | I Heard the Angels Singing (Live / feat. Mississippi Fred McDowell) | -0.50 | -22.76 | -18.3 | 14 |
| 17 | Read 'Em John (Live) | -0.30 | -22.04 | -16.7 | 15 |
| 18 | Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning (Live) | -0.49 | -23.13 | -18.9 | 17 |
| 19 | Sign of the Judgment (Live) | -0.46 | -19.28 | -13.9 | 14 |
| 20 | Chevrolet (Live) | -2.46 | -23.15 | -18.2 | 14 |
| 21 | Write Me a Few of Your Lines (Live) | -4.69 | -23.30 | -19.3 | 11 |
| 22 | Don't Ever Leave Me (Live) | -0.90 | -22.05 | -16.5 | 13 |
| 23 | Marching on the Mississippi Line (Live / feat. Emma Lee Ramsey) | -1.55 | -19.28 | -15.2 | 12 |
| 24 | Down to the Mire (Live) | -1.91 | -21.66 | -18.1 | 15 |
| 25 | Before This Time Another Year (Live) | -0.70 | -20.13 | -16.5 | 13 |