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Title
Drop on down in Florida
Other Titles (e.g. Variant)
Field recordings of African American traditional music 1977-1980
Type
MusicAudio
Monograph
Subject
African Americans--Florida--Music (LCSH)
Folk songs--Florida (LCSH)
Gospel music--Florida (LCSH)
Blues (Music)--Florida (LCSH)
Shape-note singing--Florida (LCSH)
Sacred songs--Florida (LCSH)
African Americans (FAST)
Blues (Music) (FAST)
Folk songs (FAST)
Gospel music (FAST)
Sacred songs (FAST)
Shape-note singing (FAST)
Florida (FAST)
Genre Form
Folk music (LCGFT)
Songs (LCGFT)
Blues (Music) (LCGFT)
Gospel music (LCGFT)
Folk songs (LCGFT)
Gospel music (LCGFT)
Blues (Music) (LCGFT)
Sacred music (LCGFT)
Songs (LCGFT)
Field recordings (LCGFT)
Blues (Music) (FAST)
Field recordings (FAST)
Folk songs (FAST)
Gospel music (FAST)
Music (FAST)
Sacred music (FAST)
Songs (FAST)
Language
English
Englishsung or spoken text
Englishtable of contents
Englishaccompanying material
Geographic Coverage
Florida
Classification
LCC: RZC 4322
DDC: 781 DRO
Could not render: bf:status
Note
Language: Sung in English.
Summary
Based on four years of fieldwork throughout the state, the Florida Folklife Program released the two-album, 27-track LP Drop on Down in Florida: Recent Field Recordings of Afro-American Traditional Music in 1981. The album was intended to highlight American music traditions for a statewide public audience, blues and sacred traditions in particular. In recent years, the Folklife Program sought the opportunity to produce an expanded reissue of the album that would include previously unissued fieldwork recordings and photos. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork materials now housed in the State Archives of Florida, the expanded reissue includes nearly 80 previously-unreleased minutes of music on 28 new tracks, plus numerous photos documenting the musicians and communities that perpetuated these traditions.
Table Of Contents
Disc 1. Secular recordings. Early one foggy morning (5:18) ; Boogie (1:56) ; Questionnaire blues (2:29) ; Mean mistreater blues (1:52) (Robert Dennis, vocals, guitar, Jacksonville)
Tain't but one thing that grieves my mind (2:18) ; Baby please don't go (2:39) ; Old forty (3:11) (Richard Williams, vocals, guitar, Jacksonville)
Careless love (3:48) ; Polk County blues (4:10) (Ella Mae Wilson, vocals ; Richard Williams, vocals, guitar, Jacksonville)
Polk County Blues (Willie Gillard, vocals, guitar, Tampa) (3:31)
Old-time rounders (2:54) ; She's a fool, she ain't got no sense (3:03) ; Mobile blues (2:55) ; I'm gonna dig myself a hole (3:07) ; I'll find my way (2:13) ; Drinkin' bad bad whiskey (3:15) (Emmett Murray, vocals, electric guitar, Pahokee)
I'm from Itta Bena, Mississippi (0:12) ; Rolling and tumbling (2:05) ; Sitting on top of the world (2:52) ; Mama got more out of me away from home (0:33) ; I was Natalie Roberta's son (3:05) ; Harmonica solo (1:10) ; Harmonica "hustle" (0:51) ; The train (1:54) ; Catfish blues (2:51) ; Come back baby (3:07) ; Apple farm blues (3:48) ; 13 Highway (2:17) ; Which way did my baby go? (2:17) (Moses Williams, narration, vocals, one-string zither, harmonica, Waverly)
Disc 2. Sacred recordings. That's all right (1:31) ; Precious Lord, take my hand (1:14) ; Will the circle be unbroken (1:12) ; He got the whole world in His hand (1:14) ; I don't know what I'd do without the Lord (1:10) (Johnny Brown, vocals, guitar, St. Petersburg)
Motherless children (2:32) ; Do, Lord, remember me (3:23) ; Trial in judgement (3:51) ; When the saints go marching in : (When the moon go down in blood) (2:47) ; You got to move (3:02) ; I knew it was the blood (2:47) ; In the morning (3:38) Ella Mae Wilson, Lillie B. Williams, vocals ; Richard Williams, vocals, guitar, Jacksonville)
He's a battle axe (Ella Mae (Williams) Wilson, lead vocal ; Lillie B. Williams, vocals, piano) (3:27)
I don't know what I'd do without the Lord : Did Christ o'er sinners weep? (The weeping Savior) (Testerina Primitive Baptist Church, Reverend G.W. Hill and Congregation, Leon County) (11:30)
Altar call ; Congregational prayer ; He set me free (Miccosukee Church of God of Prophecy, Bishop J.B. Beckwith and Congregation, Leon County) (6:47)
God's gonna set the world on fire (2:33) ; Inside the pearly gates (4:26) (Florida-Alabama Progressive Seven-Shape-Note Singing Convention, Crestview)
The old ship of Zion (2:54) ; Florida storm (4:45) ; Service of the Lord (2:47) ; Sweet morning (2:19) ; Alas! and Did my Saviour bleed (3:13) ; Pisgah (2:34) ; Parting hand (3:04) (Southeast Alabama and Florida Union Sacred Harp Singing Convention, Campbellton).
Contents of book: Reflections / Peggy A. Bulger
Presenting the 2012 edition of Drop on down in Florida / Blaine Waide
I'm going down to Florida : African American migration and musical traditions across time and place / Dwight DeVane ; revised and edited by David Evans
Fieldwork overview and new recordings : African American secular music in Florida / Dwight DeVane
Recent traditions and new recordings : African American sacred music in Florida / Blaine Waide
Field recording session index
Bibliography
Discography.
Capture
captureDate: 1977-XX-XX/1980-XX-XX
RecordedDate: 1977-1980
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Drop on down in Florida