Root Hog Or Die: 100 Songs, 100 Years, An Alan Lomax Centennial Tribute, by Various Artists

Root Hog Or Die: 100 Songs, 100 Years, An Alan Lomax Centennial Tribute

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1.	Alan Lomax - I'm A Rambler, I'm A Gambler 03:10	buy track
2.	Sonny Boy Williamson, Memphis Slim, and Big Bill Broonzy - I Could Hear My Name A Ringin' 03:34	buy track
3.	Anita Wilkins and group - One, Two, Three 01:29	buy track
4.	Celeste Cappelli and group - Ol Carneàl El Va El Vé (Carnival Comes and Goes) 01:06	buy track
5.	Edward King - Le Jour De L'an (New Year's Day) 03:07	buy track
6.	Steven Wright - Hambone 01:59	buy track
7.	Sheila Kay Adams - Dinah 02:12	buy track
8.	Rev. R.C. Crenshaw & Greater Harvest M.B. Church congregation - Steal Away / Didn't Hear Nobody Pray 06:07	buy track
9.	Jelly Roll Morton - Alabama Bound 04:04	buy track
10.	Clark Kessinger and Group - Sally Ann Johnson 02:10	buy track
11.	Ernest Williams and group - Go Down Old Hannah 02:40	buy track
12.	United Sacred Harp Musical Association - New Prospect (#320) 02:15	buy track
13.	Abraham "Aapo" Juhani - Finnish Waltz 01:21	buy track
14.	Rosa Lee Hill - Faro 06:13	buy track
15.	Jasimuddin - Banshi instrumental 00:47	buy track
16.	Alphonse Picou and Paul Dominguez, Jr. - High Society 02:17	buy track
17.	Neal Morris - Sing Anything 02:42	buy track
18.	Banda de Castelló de la Ribera - Como Las Propias Rosas 03:10	buy track
19.	Mohead Plantation Church of God In Christ - Amen, Amen, Amen 01:47	buy track
20.	Dennis McGee - Madame Young / Mon Chère Bébé Créole 02:58	buy track
21.	Margaret Barry - Her Mantle So Green 03:43	buy track
22.	Beatrice Dick and Group - Meet Me On the Road 01:31	buy track
23.	Luigino Scollo and Pietro Guarrasi - Nnuena (Christmas novena) 02:20	buy track
24.	Hobart Smith - Cindy 02:01	buy track
25.	Isla Cameron - Pu'in Bracken (Pulling Bracken) 01:19	buy track
26.	Skip James - Cherry Ball Blues 03:57	buy track
27.	Son House - Downhearted Blues 05:47	buy track
28.	Unidentified - Baile de Ibio (Warrior Dance) 02:53	buy track
29.	John Steven and group - Big Kilmarnock Bonnet 04:33	buy track
30.	La Roux Chayopye - Chèz-O, Prete M Yon Chèz-O (Chair, Oh! Let Me Have A Chair) 02:29	buy track
31.	Wade Ward - Train On the Island 00:47	buy track
32.	Elmer Barton - Arkansas Traveler 02:10	buy track
33.	Bobby Jean Hemphill, Ruby Hemphill, and Lucille Rice - Cornbread Rough, Biscuit Tough 00:47	buy track
34.	Almeda Riddle - Down In Arkansas 02:30	buy track
35.	Paddy Breen & Michael Coleman - Jolly Tinker / The Pretty Girls of Mayo 02:22	buy track
36.	McKinley Peebles and Bessie Jones - You Got To Reap What You Sow / A Little Talk With Jesus Makes It Right 04:38	buy track
37.	Harvey Porter - Since You Have Disdained Me I'll Cross the Deep Blue Sea 00:48	buy track
38.	Canray Fontenot and Bois Sec Ardoin - Bonsoir Moreau 02:11	buy track
39.	Big Bill Broonzy - In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town 04:07	buy track
40.	Jimmy MacBeath - Tramps and Hawkers 02:45	buy track
41.	Charles Barnett - Remember Jesus Died When He Was Young 03:00	buy track
42.	Venturina Marandella - Ninna Nanna 01:12	buy track
43.	John Davis and the Georgia Sea Island Singers - Read 'Em John 01:22	buy track
44.	Unidentified - Strigaturi 02:13	buy track
45.	South Hill Methodist Church Women's League - Flirtation Dance 01:32	buy track
46.	Brendan Behan - Zoological Gardens 02:41	buy track
47.	White Eagles Mardi Gras Indians - Indian Red 05:00	buy track
48.	Compagna Sacco - Lenga Serpentina (Serpent Tongue) 03:13	buy track
49.	Emma Hammond - Laura Lee 00:27	buy track
50.	Elizabeth Austin and group - Sailing In the Boat When the Tide Run Strong 01:10	buy track
51.	Brother Alec Stamps & Rose Hill Missionary Baptist Church congregation - When We Reach That Other Shore 02:16	buy track
52.	Mississippi Fred McDowell - Lord Have Mercy 01:49	buy track
53.	Vera Ward Hall - When I Can Read My Titles Clear 01:25	buy track
54.	Fiddlin' Joe Martin and group - Going to Fishing 03:22	buy track
55.	Harry Cox - Cruising Round Yarmouth 03:38	buy track
56.	Shirley Collins - Rambleaway 03:22	buy track
57.	Little Daw Henson - Fare You Well My Little Annie Darling 02:54	buy track
58.	Herth Colaire and group - Join this Food Campaign 01:49	buy track
59.	Cedar Place Children - My Gal's A Corker 01:49	buy track
60.	Alice Gibbs - Jerusalem Cuckoo 03:29	buy track
61.	Uncle Eck Dunford with Uncle Charlie Higgins - Memories of the 1940 National Folk Festival / Fisher's Hornpipe 03:35	buy track
62.	Duke of Iron and Group - Calypso Invasion 02:31	buy track
63.	Waulking group - Mo nighean donn á Còrnaig (Brown-Haired Girl from Còrnaig) 02:43	buy track
64.	Calvin Frazier and Sampson Pittman - This Old World's In A Tangle 03:45	buy track
65.	Unidentified fishermen - Tammuriata (drum rhythms) 03:44	buy track
66.	Jeannie Robertson - Wi' My Rovin' Eye 01:37	buy track
67.	Bessie Jones - Diamond Joe 01:18	buy track
68.	Sid Hemphill and Group - So Soon I'll Be At Home 01:38	buy track
69.	Texas Gladden - Cold Mountains 01:15	buy track
70.	Ray Hicks - Reuben Train 03:10	buy track
71.	Davie Stewart - MacPherson's Rant 06:45	buy track
72.	Bukka White - The Hundredth Man 05:35	buy track
73.	Emperor Mackenzie - I Wonder Where My Mother Has Gone 00:56	buy track
74.	Unidentified street vendor - Coco rico de la Habana (Good coconuts from Havana) 00:17	buy track
75.	Babsy McQueen and group - Roll Roll Roll and Go 01:20	buy track
76.	Indian Bottom Association of Old Regular Baptists - The Day Is Past and Gone 04:01	buy track
77.	John Llewellyn Edwards and the Treorchy Male Choir - Cosher Bailey Had An Engine 02:25	buy track
78.	Augustus Crowford - Stop All the Buses 02:57	buy track
79.	Troupe of Monsieur Mohamed ben Abderrahmane - Ya Malikna (Oh, Our King) 05:55	buy track
80.	Epifanio Capellán and group - Yo Sí La Quería 03:30	buy track
81.	Raphael Hurtault and group - Di Yo Pa Hele Pou Nou 01:21	buy track
82.	Sophie Loman Wing and group - I'll Be Waiting There 01:37	buy track
83.	"22" and group - Early In the Morning 04:47	buy track
84.	Rev. Olsie Cowan and Spiritual Baptist congregation - Prayer / Doption 04:13	buy track
85.	Jean Ritchie - Nottamun Town 02:24	buy track
86.	Inez Muñoz and Grupo de Cádiz - Fandango de Comares 02:39	buy track
87.	Dennis McGee - Two Step de Eunice 00:54	buy track
88.	Belton Sutherland - Blues #2 04:37	buy track
89.	Mark Anderson - High Force Agricultural Show 03:34	buy track
90.	Unidentified Amazigh man - Al-Hamdulillah (Thanks Be to God) 00:40	buy track
91.	Southern Fife & Drum Corps - Little and Low 02:48	buy track
92.	Francilia - Mèt Kafou Men Djab-la (Master of the Crossroads, Here Is the Devil) 01:48	buy track
93.	Kitty Gallagher - Keen for a Dead Child 01:44	buy track
94.	Mississippi Fred McDowell & Annie Mae McDowell - Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed 01:09	buy track
95.	Ballinakill Ceilidhe Band - Grace's Favourite 01:31	buy track
96.	Bascom Lamar Lunsford - Free A Little Bird 02:18	buy track
97.	John Strachan - Mormond Braes 04:14	buy track
98.	Bright Light Quartet - I'm Tired 02:51	buy track
99.	Dolores Fernández Geijo - Duérmete, niño angelito (Sleep, angel baby) 00:47	buy track
100.	Unidentified Men - I Bid You Goodnight 03:33	buy track

about

"Big pig, little pig, root hog or die. That's been a saying among the mountain people—that means if you don't work you don't get anything to eat. The pig's got to root if he gets anything to eat. The hog has to root if gets anything to eat. That's the range hog, the wild hog. The hog in the wild stage.” –Neal Morris to Alan Lomax, 1959.

2015 marked the centennial of Alan Lomax’s birth and to commemorate it, the Alan Lomax Archive collaborated with Mississippi Records to compile a limited 6-LP box-set, surveying Lomax’s career through 100 songs gathered from fifty years of his field recordings, 1933 to 1983. Root Hog Or Die combines the famous (Jelly Roll Morton, Big Bill Broonzy, Margaret Barry) with the unheard (Brother Alec Stamps and the congregation of Rose Hill Missionary Baptist of Greenville, Mississippi; the women’s league of the South Hill Methodist Church in South Hill Village, Anguilla; an adolescent hambone performer in Harlem named Steven Wright) and is the most geographically and stylistically diverse compilation of Lomax’s recordings to date, including artists from Bangladesh, Ireland, Italy, Morocco, Romania, Spain, and across Britain, the Caribbean, and the United States. More than half of the tracks are previously unreleased, and are accompanied by photographs (many previously unpublished); an introduction and recording chronology by the Lomax Archive’s curator and the set’s compiler Nathan Salsburg; and Alan Lomax's 1976 essay "An Appeal for Cultural Equity."

Download liner notes: culturalequity.org/sites/default/files/2018-06/RootHogOrDieLiners.pdf

credits

released March 1, 2016

Compiled By – Anna Lomax Wood, Don Fleming, Nathan Salsburg
Layout – Brian Mumford
Mastered By – Timothy Stollenwerk

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