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Various Artists:
The Roots Of Rap |
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| Description |
Rap is considered today's modern urban music, but its roots reach far into the past as this provocative project shows. The rapping technique has been present in many American musical genres, for 100 years or more, including early rural music, both black and white, religious songs, blues, ragtime, vaudeville, and hokum. This album features rap precursors by such legendary figures in American music as Blind Willie Johnson, Pine Top Smith, Memphis Jug Band, Butterbeans and Susie, Seven Foot Dilly & his Dill Pickles, Dixieland Jug Blowers, Jimmie Davis, Blind Willie McTell and more! A highly entertaining and provocative exploration into early American musical history. |
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Track Listing
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If I Had My Way I'd Tear This Building Down - Blind Willie Johnson
Cocaine Blues - Luke Jordan
Bow Wow Blues - Allen Brothers
Jive Man Blues - Frankie 'Half Pint' Jaxon
Jonah In The Wilderness - Henry Thomas
South Carolina Rag - Willie Walker
Whitewash Station - Memphis Jug Band
Automobile Ride Through Alabama - Red Henderson
The Dirty Dozen No.2 - Speckled Red
Tain't None O' Your Business - Butterbeans & Susie
It's A Good Thing - Beale Street Sheiks
She's A Hum Dum Dinger - Jimmie Davis
Papa's On The House Top - Leroy Carr
Let That Liar Alone - Rev. Edward Clayborn
Back In My Home Town - Frank Hutchinson
Track Linin - T.C.I. Section Crew
Atlanta Strut - Blind Willie McTell
Arkansas Hard Luck Blues - Lonnie Glosson
How Can You Have The Blues? - Kansas City Kitty & Georgia Tom
Pickin' Off Peanuts - Seven Foot Dilly & His Dill Pickles
Nobody Knows You When Your Down And Out - Pine Top Smith
When I Stopped Running I Was At Home - Dixieland Jug Blowers
Frankie Jean - Memphis Minnie |
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YAZ - Yazoo |
| Number |
2018 |
| Subsidiary Artists: |
Blind Willie Johnson
Luke Jordan
Allen Brothers
Frankie 'Half Pint' Jaxon
Henry Thomas
Willie Walker
Memphis Jug Band
Red Henderson
Speckled Red
Butterbeans & Susie
Beale Street Sheiks
Jimmie Davis
Leroy Carr
Rev. Edward Clayborn
Frank Hutchinson
T.C.I. Section Crew
Blind Willie McTell
Lonnie Glosson
Kansas City Kitty & Georgia Tom
Seven Foot Dilly
Pine Top Smith
Dixieland Jug Blowers
Memphis Minnie |
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