Country Negro Jam Sessions

by COUNTRY NEGRO JAM SESSION / VA

Overview

The remarkable Country Negro Jam Session assembles home recordings of southwest Lousiana-based blues singers collected during the late 1950s and 1960s by musicologist Dr. Harry Oster. Fourteen cuts by country fiddler Butch Cage make up the guts of the album, but the real highlights are the grim performances by Robert Pete Williams, who was serving a murder sentence at the notorious Angola State Prison at the time his tracks were recorded; equally powerful is a rendition of "Foxhunt" performed by a group of therapy patients. Despite its somewhat misleading title, a truly landmark recording. ~ Jason Ankeny

Product Details

Release Date:	12/01/1993
Label:	Arhoolie
UPC:	0096297037225
Rank:	89718

Tracks

1. 44 Blues  - Butch Cage  - Willie Dixon  - Willie B. Thomas
2. Mississippi Heavy Water Blues  - Robert Welch  - Robert Pete Williams  - Robert "Guitar" J. Welch
3. Smokestack Lightning  - Chester Burnett  - Butch Cage  - Clarence Edwards  - Cornelius Edwards
4. Who Broke the Lock?  - Butch Cage  - Willie B. Thomas
5. You Don't Love Me  - Butch Cage  - Clarence Edwards  - Cornelius Edwards
6. It's the Sign of the Judgement  - Butch Cage  - Willie B. Thomas
7. Fox Hunt  - Ben Douglas
8. Your Dice Won't Pass  - Smoky Babe  - Hillary Blunt  - Sally Dotson
9. Jelly Roll  - Butch Cage  - Willie B. Thomas
10. I've Got Religion  - Ruth Miller  - Tom Miller  - Rebecca Smith
11. Going Downtown Boogie  - Smoky Babe
12. Stack O' Dollars  - Butch Cage  - Clarence Edwards  - Cornelius Edwards
13. Brown Skin Woman  - Butch Cage  - Martha Thomas  - Willie B. Thomas  - Martha Thomas
14. I Won't Be Your Low-Down Dog No More  - Lezlie Anders  - Lucius Bridges  - Leon Strickland  - Leslie Anders
15. The Piano Blues  - Butch Cage  - Willie B. Thomas
16. Cottonfield Blues  - Smoky Babe
17. The Farm Blues  - Otis Webster
18. The Boss Man Blues  - Otis Webster
19. Whoa Mule  - Butch Cage  - Willie B. Thomas
20. Boll Weevil Blues  - Otis Webster
21. Thousand Miles from Nowhere  - Butch Cage  - Clarence Edwards  - Cornelius Edwards
22. Dead and Gone  - Butch Cage  - Willie B. Thomas
23. Called for You Yesterday  - Butch Cage  - Willie B. Thomas
24. Me and My Chauffeur Blues  - Butch Cage  - Willie B. Thomas
25. Baby Please Don't Go  - Butch Cage  - Willie B. Thomas  - Big Joe Williams

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Martha Thomas   Primary Artist,Primary Artist,Tom-Tom
Leslie Anders   Primary Artist
Robert "Guitar" J. Welch   Primary Artist
Lezlie Anders   Primary Artist
Leon Strickland   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Sally Doston   Primary Artist
Ruth Miller   Primary Artist,Vocals
Robert Pete Williams   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Sally Dotson   Primary Artist,Vocals
Tom Miller   Primary Artist,Primary Artist,Vocals
Robert Welch   Primary Artist,Guitar
Cornelius Edwards   Primary Artist,Guitar
Smoky Babe   Primary Artist
Clarence Edwards   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Ben Douglas   Primary Artist,Vocals
Rebecca Smith   Primary Artist,Primary Artist,Vocals
Otis Webster   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Butch Cage   Primary Artist,Flute,Fiddle,Vocals
Hillary Blunt   Primary Artist,Guitar
Willie B. Thomas   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Lucius Bridges   Primary Artist,Washboard
Robert Smoky Babe Brown   Guitar,Vocals
Willie Thomas   Guitar,Vocals

Technical Credits

Chris Strachwitz   Compilation Producer,Producer,Liner Notes,Photography,Engineer
Ruth Miller   Performer
Robert Pete Williams   Performer
Leon Strickland   Performer
Lezlie Anders   Performer
Rebecca Smith   Performer
Sally Dotson   Performer
Tom Miller   Performer
Willie Dixon   Composer
Wayne Pope   Cover Design
Martha Thomas   Performer
Robert Welch   Performer
Cornelius Edwards   Performer
Lucius Bridges   Performer
Paul Oliver   Engineer
Smoky Babe   Performer
Big Joe Williams   Composer
Chester Burnett   Composer
Clarence Edwards   Performer
Ben Douglas   Performer
Harry Oster   Engineer
Otis Webster   Performer
Butch Cage   Performer
Hillary Blunt   Performer
Willie Thomas   Performer
Willie B. Thomas   Performer