Various Travelling Through the Jungle lp

lp
2011/1942-70
new
The portable, rugged, & shrill fife (handmade by cutting a length of cane, plugging up one side with a cork, and poking holes with a hot fireplace poker) was a common instrument of early America, mainly because it could be heard a mile or two away. Along with a snare drum, it was used as a signal by infantrymen, but had been mostly replaced by the bugle by the time of the civil war. By the 1940s, it was being played at rural picnics, over rhythm sometimes indistinguishable from a blues or Bo Diddley backbeat. A smattering from Mississippi and Georgia, recorded by Alan Lomax, George Mitchell, & David Evans across a span of many years. Yet the bands sound all of a piece. Fred McDowell plays wastebasket on one tune. Tracklisting: Ephram Carter/JW Jones/James Jones/Floyd Busey-Old Hen Cackled Laid a Double Egg, Ephram Carter/JW Jones/James Jones/Floyd Busey-Unknown Piece, Ephram Carter/JW Jones/James Jones/Floyd Busey-shout Lula with the Red Dress On, JW Jones/Ephram Carter-Buck Dance, Ephram Carter/JW Jones/James Jones/Floyd Busey-I Love Jesus Yes I Do, JW Jones-Wake Up Sal Day Done Come Let me Chew Your Rosin Some, Ephram Carter/JW Jones/James Jones/Floyd Busey-Old Lady Dinah Sitting by the Fire, Sid Hemphill Band-Jesse James, Sid Hemphill Band-Come on Boys Let's Go to the Ball, Sid Hemphill Band-The Death March, Sid Hemphill Band-Emmaline Take Your Time, Sid Hemphill Band-The Sidewalks of New York, Napoleon Strickland/Othar Turner/RL Boyce-My Babe, Napoleon Strickland/Fred McDowell-Traveling Through the Jungle, Compton Jones/Othar Turner-Sitting on Top of the World, Othar Turner/Arthur Williams/RL Boyce-Late at Midnight Just a Little Fore Day, Othar Turner-Granny Will Your Dog Bite, Napoleon Strickland/Jimmie Buford/RL Boyce-When the Saints Go Marching In.