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Folklife Database: 1977 Portable Folk Festival
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Sound
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| Series Number/Title |
S1576 |
| Container |
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| Item |
Audio recording |
| Item ID Number |
T77-277, T77-278, T77-279 |
| Item Title |
1977 Portable Folk Festival |
| Program/Event |
Portable Folk Festival
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| Date/Date Range |
04/16/1977 |
| Collector/Fieldworker |
Florida Folklife Program
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| Tradition Bearer |
Carawan, Guy, 1927-
Jones, Bessie, 1902-1984
Red Clay Ramblers, The
Shines, Johnny, 1915-1992
Boltin, Thelma, 1904-1992
Jones, Vanessa
Conway, Cece
Boyen, Phyllis
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| Genre/Occupation |
Singers
Musicians
Guitarist
Bands (Music)
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| Title of Work |
Introductions (Boltin) (T77-277)
Paddy on the Turnpike (Carawan)
Four blues songs (Shines)
Stand By Me, Oh Lord
Hot Tamale
Unidentified blues song
Passing Through the Garden (Workman/Boyans)
Black Lung Song (Workman)
Coal Mining Lament
Watergate Boogie
East Virginia Blues
Mining Camp Blues (Boyans)
Working Girl Blues
Morrisons Jig (Caravan)
Rights of Man
Pigtown Fling
I Had a Dog and His Name Is Blue
Cripple Creek (Carawan) (T77-278)
They Can Not Put it Back
Hammered dulcimer medley
Lay Down My Life For My Lord (Bessie & Vanessa Jones)
God Moved Out on the Water
Give Me de Gourd to Drink Water
In That Old Field
Chain gang song
Susan Annie Gal (Red Clay Ramblers)
Hen House Blues
The Ace
Forked Deer
Anchored In Love
Medley
Milwaukee Blues (T77-279)
Woman Down in Memphis
Beale Street Blues
Flying Cloud Cotillion
White
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| Subject |
Folklore revival festivals
Folk festivals
Special events
Concerts
Music performance
Blues (Music)
Blues singers
Guitar music
Dulcimer music
Hammer dulcimer
Bands (Music)
Gospel music
Gospel songs
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| Place Name |
White Springs (Fla.)
Hamilton County (Fla.)
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| Corporate/Conference Name |
Florida Folklife Program
Stephen Foster Center
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| General Note/Comment Field |
Three reel to reels.
Johnny Shines was a blues singer-guitarist who once traveled with famed blues singer Robert Johnson. He was re-discovered in the 1960s during the folk revival boom, and played festivals throughout the 1960s and 1970s, His sound was very similar to Robert Johnson’s, and here he played several Johnson songs. Bluegrass and Kentucky mountain music singer Phyllis Boyens (who later appeared in the film Cola Miner’s Daughter as Loretta Lynn’s mother) and Nimrod Workman (who also had a bit part in the same film) released the album Passing Through the Garden in 1976, and they promoting that album at this performance. Workman was a former coal miner and union organizer in Kentucky. Bessie Jones, born in inland Georgia, promoted Georgia Sea Island songs, and later in the 1960s formed the Georgia Sea Island Singers. She died in Brunswick Georgia in 1984. The Red Clay Ramblers was a part of the “New-Grass” movement of the 1970s, forming in 1972. The Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based group featured Tommy Thompson (1937-2003) (banjo), Jim Watson (guitar/mandolin), Jack Herrick (guitar), Mike Craver (piano), and Bill Hicks (fiddle). Conway was a scholar at Appalachian State University and filmmaker of Appalachian culture, and an associate of the Red Clay Ramblers. She introduced Shines and the Red Clay Ramblers at the concert.
The song "Kind Hearted Woman" by Johnny Shines is available
on the Blues page.
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