1 Old Dan Tucker 01:02 2 Corn-Shucking Time 00:57 3 Jaybird 00:50 4 Georgia Land 01:21 5 I Used to Work on a Tractor 01:22 6 Wild Ox Moan 02:13 7 Boll Weevil 01:40 8 Po' Farmer 01:24 9 Fox Chase 02:17 10 I'll Go On 00:50 11 I Feel the Spirit Moving 01:13 12 We're Almost Down to the Shore 02:19 13 This Land of Georgia 01:15 14 Can't Hide 02:00 15 Noah and the Flood 03:32 16 Run, Sinner, Run 02:35 17 Take This Hammer 02:18 18 Walk Down, Devils 02:19 19 Railroad Wreck 01:25 20 Bitin' Spider 03:58 21 John Henry 02:28 22 Tin Can Alley 00:55 23 Pick 'Em Up 01:53 24 Prison Blues 02:45 25 Every Mail Day 03:18 26 When I Lie Down Last Night 01:50 27 Worried Blues 02:28 28 Going to Richmond 05:54 Virginia and the Piedmont These field recordings tell the story of African-American musical development in Virginia, the first home of slaves in North America, and in the Piedmont, where free blacks and whites made music side by side. Minstrel tunes, banjo songs, spirituals, work songs, and blues take us from the Reconstruction Era into the twentieth century and from the work gang to the concert stage. Deep River of Song African-American field recordings made for the Library of Congress from 1933 to 1946, a transformative period when black singers of the South and the Caribbean created a new musical language and thousands of brilliant songs that would captivate people throughout the world. The Alan Lomax Collection The Alan Lomax Collection gathers together the American, European, and Caribbean field recordings, world music compilations, and ballad operas of writer, folklorist, and ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax. Recorded between 1934 and 1942 by John A. Lomax, Alan Lomax, and Harold Spivacke.