Negro Songs Of Protest

This rare album is drawn from field recordings made by Lawrence Gellert in North and South Carolina and Georgia in the years 1933 to 1937 during the great depression.

From the of Lawrence Gellert Collection with his permission produced in cooperation with the Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music

Original 1973 US mono release on Rounder Records catalog # 4004.

"This album was originally prepared for release on the Timely label but jackets were never printed and the only copies of the record which left Gellert's apartment went to friends or to others who had heard about it by word of mouth; the total was about 40 discs."

Rounder 4004 33⅓ LP12"     

VG (LP) few lt scfs Cover & 7 page booklet EXC         

A1 - Cold Iron Shackles

A2 - Two Hoboes

A3 - Negro Got No Justice

A4 - Mail Day I Gets A Letter

A5 - Mr. Tyree

A6 - Rocky Bottom

A7 - Come Get Your Money

A8 - Joe Brown's Coal Mine

A9 - You Ask For Breakfast

B1 - On A Monday

B3 - There Ain't No Heaven

B4 - In Atlanta, Georgia

B5 - Cap'n Got A Lueger

B4 - When Sun Go Down

B6 - Give Me 15 Minutes And You Calls It Noon

B7 - Lawdy Mamie

B8 - Cap'n Got A Pistol

B9 - Cap'n What Is On Your Mind  

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M (LP). As new and unplayed

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VG (LP). Still very shiny, near new looking, with no visible signs of wear, but a few inaudible scuffs and scratches.

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G- (LP). Lowest Grade. Audible scratches, etc. on more than half the tracks. Listening uncomfortable.