1 hr 8 min
13 - Songs and stories for Halloween Been All Around This World
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- Music
[Bed music:]Sid Hemphill and band: The Death March (Quitman Co., Mississippi, August 1942 (https://archive.culturalequity.org/node/1300)).Mr. & Mrs. Boyd Hoskins: Ah, Lovely Appearance of Death (Horse Creek, Clay Co., Kentucky, October 1942 (https://archive.culturalequity.org/node/1269))Bessie Jones: Oh Death (St. Simons Island, Georgia, October 1959 (https://archive.culturalequity.org/node/878))Nimrod Workman: O Death (Mascot, Tennessee, July 1983 (https://archive.culturalequity.org/taxonomy/term/7842))Bessie Jones tells a story of a woman enduring a night’s worth of ghostly trials (NYC, October 1961 (https://archive.culturalequity.org/node/1050))Sheila Kay Adams: Little Margaret (Burton Cove, Sodom Laurel, Madison Co., North Carolina, September 1982 (https://archive.culturalequity.org/taxonomy/term/7706))Unidentified woman: funeral lament (Santo Stefano di Sessanio, Abruzzo, Italy, December 1954)Liborio Garanfa (guitar) and Giuseppe Gavita (violin and vocal) (Scanno, Abruzzo, Italy, December 1954)Almeda Riddle: The House Carpenter (Heber Springs, Arkansas, October 1959 (https://archive.culturalequity.org/node/912))Jeannie Robertson: Bonny Annie and Andrew Lammie, followed by a story of her own encounter with a spirit (London, November 1953 (https://archive.culturalequity.org/node/57797))Texas Gladden tells a story of her grandfather’s experience in haunted house during the Civil War (Decca Studios, NYC, 1946 (https://archive.culturalequity.org/node/803))We considered including these two relevant and wonderful pieces that aren’t directly Lomax-related – enjoy them here instead: Burl Hammons: Turkey In the Straw, learned from an apparition, as he explains. (Recorded by Carl Fleischauer and Dwight Diller at Pocahontas Co., West Virginia, April 1970. Scroll down here (https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2014/05/turkey-in-the-straw/) for audio.)Billie Maxwell: The Haunted Hunter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTCxT_B0J1A) (Victor Records session, El Paso, Texas, July 1929. Maxwell was a native of New Mexico, living at the time in Arizona.)
[Bed music:]Sid Hemphill and band: The Death March (Quitman Co., Mississippi, August 1942 (https://archive.culturalequity.org/node/1300)).Mr. & Mrs. Boyd Hoskins: Ah, Lovely Appearance of Death (Horse Creek, Clay Co., Kentucky, October 1942 (https://archive.culturalequity.org/node/1269))Bessie Jones: Oh Death (St. Simons Island, Georgia, October 1959 (https://archive.culturalequity.org/node/878))Nimrod Workman: O Death (Mascot, Tennessee, July 1983 (https://archive.culturalequity.org/taxonomy/term/7842))Bessie Jones tells a story of a woman enduring a night’s worth of ghostly trials (NYC, October 1961 (https://archive.culturalequity.org/node/1050))Sheila Kay Adams: Little Margaret (Burton Cove, Sodom Laurel, Madison Co., North Carolina, September 1982 (https://archive.culturalequity.org/taxonomy/term/7706))Unidentified woman: funeral lament (Santo Stefano di Sessanio, Abruzzo, Italy, December 1954)Liborio Garanfa (guitar) and Giuseppe Gavita (violin and vocal) (Scanno, Abruzzo, Italy, December 1954)Almeda Riddle: The House Carpenter (Heber Springs, Arkansas, October 1959 (https://archive.culturalequity.org/node/912))Jeannie Robertson: Bonny Annie and Andrew Lammie, followed by a story of her own encounter with a spirit (London, November 1953 (https://archive.culturalequity.org/node/57797))Texas Gladden tells a story of her grandfather’s experience in haunted house during the Civil War (Decca Studios, NYC, 1946 (https://archive.culturalequity.org/node/803))We considered including these two relevant and wonderful pieces that aren’t directly Lomax-related – enjoy them here instead: Burl Hammons: Turkey In the Straw, learned from an apparition, as he explains. (Recorded by Carl Fleischauer and Dwight Diller at Pocahontas Co., West Virginia, April 1970. Scroll down here (https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2014/05/turkey-in-the-straw/) for audio.)Billie Maxwell: The Haunted Hunter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTCxT_B0J1A) (Victor Records session, El Paso, Texas, July 1929. Maxwell was a native of New Mexico, living at the time in Arizona.)
1 hr 8 min