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Folklife Database: Music performance by blues guitarist Richard Williams and singer Ella Mae Wilson
Item Type:
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Sound
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| Series Number/Title |
S1576 |
| Container |
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| Item |
Audio recording |
| Item ID Number |
T83-65, T83-66, T83-67, T83-68, T83-69; T81-19 |
| Item Title |
Music performance by blues guitarist Richard Williams and singer Ella Mae Wilson |
| Program/Event |
Florida Record Project: Drop On Down in Florida
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| Date/Date Range |
03/16/1980 |
| Collector/Fieldworker |
DeVane, Dwight
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| Tradition Bearer |
Williams, Richard, 1887-1981
Wilson, Ella Mae, 1921-2002
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| Ethnicity/Nationality |
African American
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| Genre/Occupation |
Singers
Blues singers
Guitarist
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| Title of Work |
Old Forty Blues (T83-65)
Polk County Blues
Since I Laid My Burden Down
Working On a Building
You Got to Stand Your Trial and Judgement
I Prayed Until I Found the Lord
When the Saints Go Marching In (T83-66)
I Know It Was the Blood
Do Lord
What You Gonna Do When This World is on Fire
My Woman Treat Me Right
You Got to Move
By and By
I Know It Was the Blood
In the Time of Battle
In the Time of Battle (repeated twice more) (T83-67)
I Will Rise To tell You What the Lord Done For Me
I Will Fly Away
Remember Me
Travel This Whole World Round
Early One Foggy Morning (T83-68)
Boogie
They Are Gonna Send My Man To War
Nobody Love That Woman Like I Do
Working All Summer
Nickels a Nickel
Two unidentified songs
Bye, Baby, Bye
Careless Love
It Seems Mighty Hard (T83-69)
Got Bad Blood Mama
Black Angel
King Jesus
Polk County Blues (T81-19)
Uncle Sam is a Dangerous Man
Because He Lives
In the Morning
Motherless Children
Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Jacksonville Fire
Blood Red River
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| Subject |
Fieldwork
African Americans
Blues (Music)
Blues singers
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Guitar music
Guitarists
String instruments
Interviews
Gospel (Black)
Gospel music
Gospel songs
Religious songs
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| Place Name |
Newberry (Fla.)
Alachua County (Fla.)
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| Corporate/Conference Name |
Florida Folklife Program
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| General Note/Comment Field |
Five reel to reel recordings.
Ella Mae Wilson is William's daughter. She was born in 1921 in Jonesville, and snag as a gospel quartet with her sisters and mother at Baptist churches in Alachua county. Williams was also born in Jonesville, in 1887. As a teen, he played guitar for the phosphate camps, fish fries, and neighboring farms -- usually at dances. These are field recordings from the Florida Record Project. That project, along with fieldwork for the North Florida Project, resulted in the two-album recording, Drop On Down in Florida.
The song "I Prayed Until I Found the Lord" by Richard Williams, Lillie Williams, & Ella
Mae Wilson is available on the Sacred
Music page. |
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