'100 Years, 100 Songs - An Alan Lomax Centennial Tribute'. Released in celebration of Alan Lomax's 100th birthday, here's a Six LP box set featuring 100 of his finest field recordings, including previously unreleased tracks by Bob Dylan, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Southern Drum and Fife Corps, Bill Broonzy, Rosa Lee Hill, Dennis McGee, Jean Ritchie, Shirley Collins, Bukka White, Vera Ward Hall, The Georgia Sea Island Singers, Son House and many more.
No less than 55 of these tracks are previously unissued, and you also get hard to find tracks by Skip James. Fred McDowell, Almeda Riddle, Duke of Iron, Jeannie Robertson, Bessie Jones, Texas Gladden, and many more.
This box, limited to 1.000 units, features six LP's, all presented in their own record sleeves and highlighting beautiful photography from the Lomax Archive.
You may also expect remastered audio, a 28-page booklet with many photos, an essay by Alan Lomax, a chronology of all of Lomax's field recording trips, and liner notes by Nathan Salsburg.
Comes in a heavy duty standard "candy box" style outer box.
Songs:
Root Hog Or Die Volume 1 - I'm A Rambler, I'm A Gambler
ALAN LOMAX: I'm A Rambler, I'm A Gambler
SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON, MEMPHIS SLIM, BIG BILL BROONZY:
I Could Hear My Name A Ringin'
ANITA WILKINS AND GROUP:
One, Two, Three
CELESTE CAPPELLI AND GROUP:
Carnival Comes And Goes
EDWARD KING:
Le Jour De L'an (New Year's Day)
STEVEN WRIGHT: Hambone
SHEILA KAY ADAMS: Dinah
REV. R.C. CRENSHAW AND GREATER HARVEST M.B. CHURCH CONGREGATION:
Steal Away / Didn't Hear Nobody Pray
FERDINAND "JELLY ROLL" MORTON:
Alabama Bound
CLARK KESSINGER AND BAND:
Sally Ann Johnson
ERNEST WILLIAMS AND GROUP:
Go Down Old Hannah
UNITED SACRED HARP MUSICAL ASSOCIATION:
New Prospect
ABRAHAM "AAPO" JUHANI:
Finnish Waltz
ROSA LEE HILL: Faro
JASIMUDDIN: Banshi Instrumental
ALPHONSE PICOU AND PAUL DOMINGUEZ JR.:
High Society
Root Hog Or Die Volum 2 - Sing Anything
NEAL MORRIS: Sing Anything
BANDA DE CASTELLO DE LA RIBERA:
Como Las Propias Rosas
CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST CONGREGATION:
Amen, Amen, Amen
DENNIS McGEE: Madame Young / Mon Chère Bébé Créole
MARGARET BERRY: Her Mantle So Green
BEATRICE DICK AND GROUP:
Meet Me On The Road
LUIGINO SCOLLO AND PIETRO GUARRASI:
Nnuena (Christmas Novena)
HOBART SMITH: Cindy
ISLA CAMERON: Pu'in Bracken (Pulling Bracken)
SKIP JAMES: Cherry Ball Blues
SON HOUSE: Downhearted Blues
UNKNOWN ARTIST: Baile De Ibio (Warrior Dance)
JOHN STEVEN: Big Kilmarnock Bonnet
LA ROUX CHAYOPYE: Chèz-O, Prete M Yon Chèz-O (Chair, Oh! Let Me Have A Chair
WADE WARD: Train On The Island
ELMER BARTON: Arkansas Traveler
BOBBY JEAN HEMPHILL, RUBY HEMPHILL, LUCILLE RICE:
Cornbread Rough, Biscuit Tough
Root Hog Or Die Volume 3 - Sailing In The Boat When The Tide Runs Strong:
ALMEDA RIDDLE: Down In Arkansas
PADDY BREEN AND MICHAEL COLEMAN:
Jolly Tinker / The Pretty Girls Of Mayo
McKINLEY PEEBLES AND BESSIE JONES:
You Got To Reap What You Sow / A Little Talk With Jesus Makes It Right
HARVEY PORTER: Since You Have Disdained Me I'll Cross The Deep Blue Sea
CANRAY FONTENOT, BOIS SEC ARDOIN AND FREEMAN FONTENOT:
Bonsoir Moreau
BILL BROONZY: In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town
JIMMY MacBEATH: Tramps And Hawkers
CHARLES BARNETT:
Remember Jesus Died When He Was Young
VENTURINA MARANDELLA: Ninna Nanna
JOHN DAVIS AND THE GEORGIA SEA ISLAND SINGERS:
Read 'Em John
UNKNOWN ARTIST: Strigaturi
UNKNOWN ARTIST: Flirtation Dance
BRENDAN BEHAN: Zoological Gardens
PRETTY WHITE EAGLES MARDI GRAS INDIANS:
Indian Red
COMPAGNA SACCO: Lenga Serpentina (Serpent Tongue)
EMMA HAMMOND: Laura Lee
ELIZABETH AUSTIN AND GROUP:
Sailing In The Boat When The Tide Run Strong
BROTHER ALEX STAMPS AND ROSE HILL M.B. CHURCH CONGREGATION:
When I Reach That Other Shore
FRED McDOWELL: Lord Have Mercy
Root Hog Or Die Volume 4 - This Old World Is In A Tangle:
VERA WARD HALL:
When I Can Read My Titles Clean
FIDDLIN' JOE MARTIN AND GROUP:
Going To Fishing
HARRY COX: Cruising Round Yarmouth
SHIRLEY COLLINS: Rambleaway
DAWSON "LITTLE DAUGH (OR DAW)" HENSON:
Fare You Well My Little Annie Darling
HERTH COLAIRE AND GROUP:
Join This Food Campaign
CEDAR PLACE CHILDREN: My Gal's A Corker
ALICE GIBBS: Jerusalem Cuckoo
UNCLE ALEC (ECK) DUNFORD:
Memories Of The 1940 National Folk Festival / Fisher's Hornpipe
DUKE OF IRON AND GROUP:
Calypso Invasion
WAULING GROUP: Mo Nighean Donn Á Còrnaig
CALVIN FRAZIER AND SAMPSON PITTMAN:
This Old World's In A Tangle
UNKNOWN ARTIST: Tammuriata (Drum Rhythms)
JEANNIE ROBERTSON: Wi' My Rovin' Eye
BESSIE JONES: Diamond Joe
SID HEMPHILL AND GROUP:
So Soon I'll Be At Home
Root Hog Or Die Volume 5 - The Day Is Past And Gone:
TEXAS GLADDEN: Cold Mountain
BOB DYLAN: Masters Of War
RAY HICKS: Reuben Train
DAVIE STEWART: MacPherson's Rant
BUKKA WHITE: Hundredth Man Blues
EMPEROR MACKENZE:
I Wonder Where My Mother Has Gone
UNKNOWN ARTIST:
Coco Rico De La Habana (Good Coconuts From Havana)
BABSY McQUEEN AND GROUP:
Roll Roll And Go
INDIAN BOTTOM ASSOCIATION OF OLD REGULAR BAPTISTS:
The Day Is Past And Gone
JOHN LLEWELLYN EDWARDS AND THE GREORCHY MALE CHOIR:
Cosher Bailey Had An Engine
CECIL AGUSTA: Stop All The Buses
TROUPE OF MNSIEUR MOHAMED BEN ABDERRAHMANE:
Ya Malikna (Oh, Our King)
EPIFANIO CAPELLAN AND GROUP:
Yo Sí La Quería
RAPHAEL HURTAULT AND GROUP:
Di Yo Pa Hele Pou Nou
SOPHIE LOMAN WING AND GROUP:
I'll Be Waiting There
Root Hog Or Die Volume 6 - Free A Little Bird:
22 AND GROUP: Early In The Morning
REV. OLSIE COWAN AND SPIRITUAL BAPTIST CONGREGATION:
Prayer / Doption
JEAN RITCHIE: Nottamun Town
INEZ MUNOZ AND GRUPO DE CADIZ:
Fandango De Comares
DENNIS McGEE: Two Step De Eunice
BELTON SUTHERLAND: Blues #2
MARK ANDERSON: High Force Agricultural Show
UNKNOWN ARTIST: Al-Hamdulillah (Thanks Be To God)
SOUTHERN FIFE AND DRUM CORPS:
Little And Low
FRANCILIA: Mèt Kafou Men Djaba-la (Master Of The Crossroads, Here Is The Devil)
KITTY GALLAGHER: Keen For A Dead Child
FRED AND ANNIE MAE McDOWELL:
Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed
BALLINAKILL CEILIDHE BAND:
Grace's Favorite
BASCOM LAMAR LUNSFORD: Free A Little Bird
JOHN STRACHAN: Mormond Braes
BRIGHT LIGHT QUARTET: I'm Tired
DOLORES FERNANDEZ:
Geijo* Duérmete, Niño Angelito (Sleep, Angel Baby)
UNKNOWN ARTIST: I Bid You Goodnight