Sold Date: December 2, 2016
Start Date: November 25, 2016
Final Price: $25.99 (USD)
Bid Count: 16
Seller Feedback: 4542
Buyer Feedback: 9

VINYL: Near-Mint -  COVER: Near-Mint

NOTES:
A collection of songs recorded at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in 1947. The best single document of the African American work song and field holler tradition.... The group work songs, while moving and an excellent examples of the style, are by their nature less distinctive than the extraordinary solo performances like my favories "It Makes A Long Time Man Fell Bad". These are all very powerful and all together richly African American.

"These songs belong to the musical tradition which Africans brought to the New World, but they are also as American as the Mississippi River. They were born out of the very rock and earth of this country, as black hands broke the soil, moved, reformed it, and rivers of stinging sweat poured upon the land under the blazing heat of Southern skies, and are mounted upon the passion that this struggle with nature brought forth. They tell us the story of the slave gang, the sharecropper system, the lawless work camp, the chain gang, the pen." --Alan Lomax

Grading:  Near-Mint, Excellent, Very Good Plus, Very Good.

I'll be listing a few hundred choice lps in the coming week. I give combined shipping discounts when you buy more than 1 lp.


POSTAGE:

USA: $3.99 for 1st Lp and $1.00 for each additional Lp. After 5 lps, shipping is 50 cents for each additional lp.

CANADA: $12.95 For 1st Lp and $4.95 for each additional.

EUROPE, JAPAN, HONG KONG, NEW ZEALAND, AUSTRALIA and SINGAPORE: $18.00 for 1st Lp and $5.00 for each additonal.