Summary: Ry Cooder's latest album is all America, with spiritual, hopeful voices, raw cries, and sly provocations, voiced through the songs of the Pilgrim Travelers, the Stanley Brothers, Blind Willie Johnson, and Ry Cooder himself.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantasy Records 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK COOStaples, Mavis.
Summary: Produced by Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, Mavis Staples delivers an album that pays homage to the original spiritual roots of the Staples Singers. The end result is a warm, powerful, and fervent collection of brilliantly chosen and interpreted songs that includes two new songs penned by Tweedy.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Anti- 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES STAContents: Got myself together / Tyrone Dickerson, Ross Duval (4:53) -- Promised land / Sherman Holmes (3:33) -- When something is wrong with my baby / Isaac Hayes, David Porter (6:32) -- Fannie Mae / Wayman Glasco (3:17) -- New and improved me / Wendell Holmes (3:53) -- I surrender all / traditional (4:42) -- Train song / Tom Waits (2:54) -- None but the righteous / traditional (5:57) -- Dashboard bar /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES HOLContents: Heaven's wall (3:55) -- The Lord (2:41) -- Lead me Father (2:51) -- Presence of the Lord (4:21) -- Gospel train (2:52) -- Magnificent (3:34) -- Full force gale (6:17) -- All his saints (3:50) -- God's hotel (3:47) -- Wherever you leadeth (4:14) -- Long black Cadillac (4:30) -- Sanctuary (4:23).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES BUTFoster, Ruthie.
Summary: Soulful vocalist Ruthie Foster creates a deeply intimate recording that is a smoky mix of original songs and inventive interpretations of an unexpected collection of covers. All the while Foster takes listeners on her most personal journey yet.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Corn Music 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK FOSSummary: This watershed release represents the life's work of William Ferris, an audio recordist, filmmaker, folklorist, and teacher with an unwavering commitment to establish and to expand the study of the American South. William Ferris was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1942. Growing up on a working farm, Ferris began at a young age documenting the artwork, music, and lives of the people on the...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dust to Digital 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK VOITharpe, Rosetta
Contents: v. 1. 1938-1941. Rock me (64727) ; That's all (64728) ; My man and I ; The lonesome road ; Bring back those happy days ; This train ; I looked town the line (And I wondered) ; God don't like it ; Beams of heaven ; Savior don't pass me by ; The end of my journey ; Sit down ; There is something within me ; Stand by me ; Foru or five times ; Shout, sister, shout ; The lonesome road ; Trouble in...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Document 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES THADavis, Gary
Contents: Pure religion (4:17) -- Mountain Jack (3:28) -- Right now (2:55) -- Buck dance (2:50) -- Candy man (2:32) -- Devil's dream (1:57) -- Moon goes down (4:44) -- Cocaine blues (2:38) -- Runnin' to the judgment (3:51) -- Hesitation blues (3:17) -- Bad company (3:50) -- I didn't want to join the band (3:06) -- Evening sun goes down (3:28) -- Seven sisters (2:58) -- My heart is fixed (2:05) -- Time is...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES DAVFlemons, Dom
Contents: Slow dance with you (2:59) -- Dark beauty (3:22) -- If you truly love me (4:33) -- Traveling wildfire (6:09) -- It's cold inside (4:30) -- We are almost down to the shore (3:01) -- Nobody wrote it down (3:55) -- Saddle it around (3:40) -- Big money blues (2:26) -- Old desert road (3:33) -- Rabbit foot rag (2:42) -- Tough luck (2:11) -- Song to JCB (3:56) -- Guess I'm doing fine (feat. Sam Bush)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023