Smithsonian has released yet another in their great compilation CD from the Folkways catalog. This week’s program Not Just the Blues is based on the new CD Classic African American Songsters. We’ll hear music from that recording as well as tunes from Elizabeth Cotten, Guy Clark, The Carolina Chocolate Drops, John Jackson and many more. African American music is Not Just the Blues

LISTEN:

Artist / “Title” / CD / Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / Songs Of Hope And Struggle /
        Smithsonian-Folkways

Carolina Chocolate Drops / “Kerr’s Negro Jig” / Leaving Eden / Nonesuch
Carolina Chocolate Drops / “Ruby Are You Mad At Your Man” / Leaving
        Eden / Nonesuch
Marvin Foddrell / “Reno Factory” / Classic African American Songsters /
        Smithsonian-Folkways
Virgil Childers / “Travellin’ Man” / Charlotte Blues / NeHi
Guy Davis / “Dance Juba Dance” / Juba Dance / MC Records

Dom Flemons / “San Francisco Baby” / Prospect Hill / Music Maker
Lonnie Johnson & Eddie Lang / “Guitar Blues” / Steppin’ On The Blues /
        Columbia
Eric Bibb / “Sinner Man” / Deeper in the Well / Stony Plain
Carolina Chocolate Drops / “Briggs Corn Shucking Jig-Camptown Hornpipe” /
        Leaving Eden / Nonesuch

Elizabeth Cotten / “Here Old Rattler Here-Sent for my Fiddle Sent for my
        Bow-George Buck” / Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes /
        Smithsonian-Folkways
Bill Williams / “Chicken, You Can’t Roost Too High For Me” / Classic
        African American Songsters / Smithsonian-Folkways
Cannon’s Jug Stompers / “Walk Right In” / Best of Cannon’s Jug Stompers /
        Yazoo
Taj Mahal / “Fishin’ Blues” / De Ole Folks At Home / Columbia

Mississippi John Hurt / “Monday Morning Blues” / Classic African American
        Songsters / Smithsonian-Folkways
Corey Harris / “Frankie And Johnnie” / Fish Ain’t Bitin’ / Alligator
John Jackson / “Fairfax Station Rag” / Front Porch Blues / Alligator

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / Songs of Hope and Struggle /
        Smithsonian-Folkways