Georgia Sea Island Singers Join the Band lp

$15.00

lp
2011/1959-60
new
Alan Lomax was about 20 when he first went to the coast of Georgia & South Carolina, and he apparently showed up in blackface in order to try not to freak out the local populace. Somehow his hosts were nice to him anyway, and so twenty five years later, when he happened to be flush, he returned & did lots of recordings. The singers he'd encountered on his first trip had congealed into a more formal group by the 2nd time around, and he encouraged them to self-consciously preserve the way they'd learned to sing & got them high profile/good paying college gigs around the country. Gospel-inflected acapella singing in loose rounds, over both Bahamian & African meters. Tracklisting: You Better Mind, Oh Death, O Day, Turkle Dove, Adam & Eve, Sometimes, Sink Em Low, See Aunt Dinah, Beaulah Land, Prayer, Sign of Judgement, Join the Band, Go To Sleep Little Baby, Before This Time Another Year.
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