Worried Now, Won't Be Worried Long: Alan Lomax's "Southern Journey," 1959–1960, by Various Artists

Worried Now, Won't Be Worried Long: Alan Lomax's "Southern Journey," 1959–1960

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Get In Union, Songs of Hard Times: Up, Over & Through (1936-1982), Root Hog Or Die: An Alan Lomax Centennial Tribute, Music for Work and Play: Carriacou, Grenada 1962, Singing At the Ship Inn: Alan Lomax's 1953 Blaxhall Recordings, Sid Hemphill: The Devil's Dream (The 1942 Library of Congress Recordings), United Sacred Harp Convention: The Alan Lomax Recordings, 1959, Fred McDowell: The Alan Lomax Recordings, and 5 more. , and , .

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1.	Worried Now, Won't Be Worried Long 02:55	buy track
2.	Walking In the Parlor 01:53	buy track
3.	Rolled and Tumbled 02:56	buy track
4.	The Old Ship Zion 04:32	buy track
5.	Hop Along, Let's Get Her 01:03	buy track
6.	Hallelujah (#146) 02:25	buy track
7.	The Cabin On the Hill 03:06
8.	Ida Reed 02:17	buy track
9.	I'm Tired 02:51	buy track
10.	I'm Going Home to Live With Jesus 03:49	buy track
11.	You Got Dimples In Your Jaws 03:18	buy track
12.	Cumberland Gap 01:09	buy track
13.	Levee Camp Holler (Downtown Money Waster) 02:50
14.	Lonesome Dove 05:35	buy track
15.	Turnip Greens 02:11	buy track

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In 1959 and 1960, at the height of the Folk Revival, Alan Lomax ventured again through the American South to document its still thriving vernacular musical culture. He and his assistant, the English folksinger Shirley Collins, traveled through Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, and North Carolina, making over 70 hours of field recordings, the first ever to be made on stereo tape. The trip came to be known as the "Southern Journey," and its recordings were originally issued for the Atlantic and Prestige labels in the early '60s.

"Worried Now, Won't Be Worried Long" collects recordings of Blue Ridge fiddler Norman Edmonds; Mississippi Hill Country fife and drum music and blueswoman Rosa Hill performing on Fred McDowell's porch; electric gospel from Ishman Williams and the William Singers; the United Sacred Harp Convention in Fyffe, Alabama; the Bright Light Quartet, a group of menhaden fishermen of the Eastern Shores of Virginia; and Almeda "Granny" Riddle, the great balladress of the Ozarks. Compiled and annotated by Nathan Salsburg, the albums feature remastered audio from transfers of the original tapes, and include considerable previously unreleased material and extensive booklets of photos and notes.

Download the liner notes here: culturalequity.org/ce_images/features/globaljukebox/WorriedNowBooklet.pdf

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released October 19, 2010

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Alan Lomax (1915–2002) was a documentarian, ethnologist, cultural activist, and arguably the foremost folklorist of the 20th century. Over his seven-decade career he collected thousands of audio recordings of folk and traditional music from around the US and the world, and dedicated himself to the pursuit of what he called "cultural equity." 100% of proceeds go to the Assoc. for Cultural Equity. ... more

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