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Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Alan Lomax's "Southern Journey", Mississippi Records present a crucial reissue of 'I'm Gonna Live Anyhow Until I Die' housed in heavyweight card with tip-on sleeve, including an extensive booklet and exclusive, previously unissued versions and tracks. As the story goes, Alan and Shirley Collins took a field recording trip to the southern states in late 1959 in the middle of an American folk revival he had partly instigated with his 'American ballads and Folk Songs' and 'Our Singing Country' song books a decade or so before. This time he was armed with top end German microphones and one of the very earliest portable stereo recorders, effectively making the first ever recordings of rural American folk, blues and gospel, in stereo. The highlights are far too many to mention, but we got a soft spot for the the uproarious performance of 'Heaven Is Mine' by Unidentified woman & Pentecostal Temple congregation, and definitely that demented excerpt from WROS Scottsboro Old-Time religious hour. In a nutshell - ESSENTIAL!

01. J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers - Number 111
02. Fred Mcdowell - 61 Highway
03. Bright Light Quartet - Chantey Medley
04. E.C. Ball & Lacey Richardson - Tribulations
05. Bessie Jones & The Georgia Sea Island Singers - Daniel In The Lion's Den
06. Unidentified Woman & Pentecostal Temple Congregation - Heaven Is Mine
07. Emma Hammond - Shout Lula
08. Ervin Webb & Prisoners - I'm Going Home
09. Wros Scottsboro - Old-Time Religious Hour Experpt
10. Hobart Smith - The Devil's Dream
11. Sid Hemphill & Lucius Smith - The Devil's Dream
12. United Sacred Harp Convention - The Last Words Of Copernicus (#112)
13. Elder I.D. Back - Poor Pilgrim Of Sorrow
14. Vera Ward Hall - The Last Month Of The Year
15. Miles & Bob Pratcher - I'm Gonna Live Anyhow Until I Die

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