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BLUES
Brown, Roy (New Orleans, LA)

"I Feel That Young Man's Rhythm" * streaming Real Audio
"The End of My Journey" *

Fuller, Blind Boy (Wadesboro, NC)

"Mistreator You're Gonna be Sorry" * streaming Real Audio
"Shaggy Like a Bear'" *

Hill, Bertha "Chippie" (Charleston, SC)

"Careless Love" * streaming Real Audio
"Charleston Blues" *

"Bertha 'Chippie' Hill: Complete Recorded Works 1925-1929 In Chronological Order"
Document Records: DOCD-5330
"Low Land Blues" * streaming Real Audio
       Recorded on November 9, 1925 in Chicago, IL
"Kid Man Blues"
"Lonesome, All Alone And Blue"
"Trouble In Mind"
"Georgia Man"
"Leavenworth Blues"
"Panama Limited Blues"
"Street Walker Blues"
"Pleadin' For The Blues"
"Pratt City Blues"
"Mess, Katie, Mess"
"Lovesick Blues"
"Lonesome Weary Blues"
"Do Dirty Blues"
"Sport Model Mama"
"Some Cold Rainy Day"
"Weary Money Blues"
"Hard Time Blues"
"Christmas Man Blues"
"Trouble In Mind"
"Hangman Blues"
"Non-Skid Tread"
"I Ain't Gonna Do It No More"
"Pratt City Blues"

Davis, Reverend Gary (Laurens, SC)

"Pure Religion and Bad Company"
Smithsonian/Folkways Records: SF 40035
"Pure Religion" * streaming Real Audio
Recorded June 1957
"Mountain Jack"
"Right Now"
"Buck Dance"
"Candy Man"
"Devil's Dream"
"Moon Goes Down"
"Cocaine Blues"
"Runnin' to the Judgement"
"Hesitation Blues"
"Bad Company"
"I Didn't Want to Join the Band"
"Evening Sun Goes Down"
"Seven Sisters"
"My Heart is Fixed"
"Time is Drawing Near"
"Crucifixion"

McGhee, Brownie (Knoxville, TN)

"Step it up and Go no. 2" * streaming Real Audio
"Working Man's Blues" *

Smith, Clara (Spartanburg, SC)

"Ain't Nothin' Cookin' What You're Smellin'" * streaming Real Audio
"Awful Moanin Blues" *
"Back Woods Blues"
*
"Black Woman's Blues" *
"The Clearing House Blues" *
"Cold Weather Papa"
*
"Court House Blues"
*
"Hot Papa" *
"I Never Miss the Sunshine (I'm So Used to the Rain)" *
"I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down" *
"I'm Tired Of Bein' Good" *
"It Won't Be Long Now" *

"L & N Blues"
*
"Mean Papa Turn In Your Key" *
"Onery Blues" *
"Separation Blues" *
"That's Why The Undertakers Are Busy Today"
*
"War Horse Mama" *
"West Indie Blues" *
"You Don't Know My Mind" *

Thompson, Sonny (Centreville, MS)

"Uncle Sam Blues"* streaming Real Audio
"Smoke Stack Blues"*

White, Josh (Greenville, SC)

"Smithsonian Folkways American Roots Collection"
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings: SF CD 40062
"Freedom Road" * streaming Real Audio

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GULLAH
Pickney, Mary (Johns Island, SC)

"Been In The Storm So Long"
Folkways Records: FS 3842

"Remember Me" (Moving Star Hall Singers)
"See God's Ark A-Moving" (Benjamin Bligen & Moving Star Hall Singers)
"Ask the Watchman How Long" (Janie Hunter)
"Meet Me in Galilee" (James Mackey)
"Talking 'Bout A Good Time" (Benj. Bligen & Moving Star Hall Singers)
"That's All Right" (Laura Rivers)
"Jesus Knows All About My Trouble" (Moving Star Hall)
"Talk" (Esau Jenkins)
"Lay Down Body" (Bertha Smith & Moving Star Hall) * streaming Real Audio
"Welcome Table &Prayer" (Alice Wine)
"Ezekial in the Valley" (James Mackey)
"Been In The Storm So Long" (Mary Pickney) * streaming Real Audio
"Jack and Mary and the Three Dogs" (Janie Hunter)
"You Got to Move" (Janie Hunter)
"Moon Light in Glory" (Ruth Bligen)
"Mary Rolled the Stone Away" (Janie Hunter)
"Ezekial in the Valley" (Janie Hunter)
"Down on Me" (Mary Pickney & Moving Star Hall Singers)
"Reborn Again" (Benjamin Bligen & Moving Star Hall Singers)
"Row Michael Row" (Jane Hunter & Moving Star Hall Singers) * streaming Real Audio
"Johnny Cuckoo" (Janie Hunter)
"Old Lady Come From Booster" (Janie Hunter & Mary Pickney)
"Shoo Turkey" (Janie Hunter, Children & Grandchildren)
"Mr. Postman Die" (Janie Hunter, Children & Grandchildren)
"Water My Flowers" (Janie Hunter)
"The Rabbit And The Partridge" (Janie Hunter)
"Improvised Blues" (Janie Hunter & Mary Pickney"
"Jack And Mary And The Devil" (Janie Hunter)

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JAZZ
Gillespie, Dizzy (Cheraw, SC)

"The Quintet Jazz at Massey Hall"
Debut Records: DEB-124

"Perdido"
"Salt Peanuts"
"All The Things You Are"
"Wee"
"Hot House"

"A Night In Tunisia" * streaming Real Audio

Jones, Etta (Aiken, SC)

"Don't Go To Strangers" (1960)
Prestige: P-7186

"Yes Sir, That's My Baby"
"Don't Go To Strangers" * streaming Real Audio
"I Love Paris"
"Fine and Mellow"
"Where Or When"
"If I had You"
"On The Street Where You Live"
"Something to Remember You By"
"Bye Bye Blackbird"
"All The Way"

Smith, Jabbo (Charleston, SC - Jenkins Orphanage)

Absolutely * streaming Real Audio
How Can Cupid Be So Stupid *

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SPIRITUAL
Spencer, Kenneth

The Underground Railroad * streaming Real Audio

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WORK SONGS
"Field Recordings - Vol. 2: N. & S. Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas (1926-1943)"

Street Cries of Charleston (Charleston, SC)
Document Records: DOCD-5576
North Carolina
"Prison Blues"
"Let's Go To Bury"

South Carolina
"Do You Call That Religion"
"Travelin' To That New Buryin' Ground"
"Look Down That Lonesome Road" * streaming Real Audio
"Blackberries/Flowers" *

Georgia
"Deep Down In My Heart"
"Jesus Is My Only Friend"
"Old Man Satan / Drive Old Satan Away"
"Glory to God My Son Come Home"
"Blow Boys Blow"
"Alabama Prison Blues"
"Ain't Nobody's Fault But Mine"
"John Henry"
"John Henry (Take 2)"
"Fandango"
"Salt Water Blues"
"Boll Weevil"
"Roosevelt And Hitler - Part I"
"Roosevelt And Hitler - Part II"
"Bottle It Up And Go"
"Blues - When Saints Come To Town"
"My Big Fat Hipted Mama"
"Smithy Rag"

Tennessee
"Jumpin' Judy"
"Track-Lining Song"
"Steel Laying Holler"

Arkansas
"Jumpin' Judy"
"Rock Island Lind"
"It Makes A Long Time Man Feel Bad"
"Holy Babe - Part 1&2"
"Joe De Grinder"
"John Henry"

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