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Country Negro Jam Sessions - Various Artists
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  1. 44 Blues
  2. Mississippi Heavy Water Blues
  3. Smokestack Lightning
  4. Who Broke the Lock?
  5. You Don't Love Me
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  1. 44 Blues
  2. Mississippi Heavy Water Blues
  3. Smokestack Lightning
  4. Who Broke the Lock?
  5. You Don't Love Me
  6. It's the Sign of the Judgement
  7. Fox Hunt
  8. Your Dice Won't Pass
  9. Jelly Roll
  10. I've Got Religion
  11. Going Downtown Boogie
  12. Stack O' Dollars
  13. Brown Skin Woman
  14. I Won't Be Your Low-Down Dog No More
  15. The Piano Blues
  16. Cottonfield Blues
  17. The Farm Blues
  18. The Boss Man Blues
  19. Whoa Mule
  20. Boll Weevil Blues
  21. Thousand Miles from Nowhere
  22. Dead and Gone
  23. Called for You Yesterday
  24. Me and My Chauffeur Blues
  25. Baby Please Don't Go
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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. ...

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Country Negro Jam Sessions 1993, Arhoolie

UPC: 096297037225

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