I'm Gonna Live Anyhow Until I Die: Alan Lomax's "Southern Journey​,​" 1959–1960, by Various Artists

I'm Gonna Live Anyhow Until I Die: Alan Lomax's "Southern Journey," 1959–1960

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1.	J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers - Number 111 02:59	buy track
2.	Fred McDowell - 61 Highway 03:06	buy track
3.	Bright Light Quartet - Chantey Medley 06:38	buy track
4.	E.C. Ball - Tribulations 02:50	buy track
5.	Bessie Jones & the Georgia Sea Island Singers - Daniel In the Lion's Den 02:21	buy track
6.	Unidentified Woman & Pentecostal Temple Congregation - Heaven Is Mine 03:37	buy track
7.	Emma Hammond - Shout Lula 01:00	buy track
8.	Ervin Webb & Parchman Inmates - I'm Going Home 03:25	buy track
9.	Unidentified - WROS Scottsboro Old-Time Religious Hour excerpt 02:11	buy track
10.	Hobart Smith - The Devil's Dream 02:30	buy track
11.	Sid Hemphill & Lucius Smith - The Devil's Dream 01:55	buy track
12.	United Sacred Harp Musical Association - The Last Words of Copernicus (#112) 02:04	buy track
13.	Elder I.D. Back - Poor Pilgrim of Sorrow 04:07	buy track
14.	Vera Ward Hall - The Last Month of the Year 02:12	buy track
15.	Miles & Bob Pratcher - I'm Gonna Live Anyhow Until I Die 02:35	buy track

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In 1959 and 1960, at the height of the Folk Revival, Alan Lomax ventured again through the American South to document its still thriving vernacular musical culture. He and his assistant, the English folksinger Shirley Collins, traveled through Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, and North Carolina, making over 70 hours of field recordings, the first ever to be made on stereo tape. The trip came to be known as the "Southern Journey," and its recordings were originally issued for the Atlantic and Prestige labels in the early '60s.

"I'm Gonna Live Anyhow Until I Die" features Bluebird hillbilly recording artists J.E. Mainer and his Mountaineers; menhaden fishermen chanties of the Bright Light Quartet; Blue Ridge country gospel composer and bus driver E.C. Ball; Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers; Pentecostal Holiness congregational singing from Memphis; the Mississippi Hill Country dance music of the Pratcher brothers; and one of the debut recordings of bluesman Mississippi Fred McDowell.Compiled and annotated by Nathan Salsburg, the albums feature remastered audio from transfers of the original tapes, and include considerable previously unreleased material and extensive booklets of photos and notes.

Download the liner notes here: culturalequity.org/ce_images/features/globaljukebox/GonnaLiveBooklet.pdf
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released October 22, 2010

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