American Roots Music

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Annotation

This Compilation ℗ & © 2001 Palm Pictures, LLC.
Printed and manufactured in the USA

Presented like a hardback book. Two discs on the inside front cover and two discs on the inside back cover. A glossy sixty (60) page booklet is bound on the inside.

Tracklist

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#TitleArtistLength
1Joshua Fit De Battle
Fisk Jubilee Singers2:22
2Precious Lord, Take My Hand
Thomas A. Dorsey5:11
3Blind Barnabus
The Golden Gate Quartet2:10
4Down by the Riverside
Sister Rosetta Tharpe3:06
5Move on Up a Little Higher
recording of:
Move On Up a Little Higher
lyricist and composer:
William Herbert Brewster
writer:
Rev. W.H. Brewster
arranger:
M. Jackson
Mahalia Jackson5:28
6Sit Down Servant
The Staple Singers2:43
7Oh Happy Day
Edwin Hawkins4:36
8This Land Is Your Land
guitar:
Woody Guthrie (in 1944-04)
vocals:
Woody Guthrie (in 1944-04)
recording of:
This Land Is Your Land (in 1944-04)
lyricist and composer:
Woody Guthrie (in 1940)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 16378)
is based on:
When the World's on Fire
Woody Guthrie2:46
9Goodnight Irene
recording of:
Goodnight Irene
lyricist and composer:
[traditional]
arranger:
Ledbetter and John A. Lomax
publisher:
Lodlow Music, Spencer Music Corp., TRO-Ludlow Music, Inc. and Tyler Music Ltd.
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 11681)
translated version of:
Godnatt Irene
Lead Belly1:54
10So Long It's Been Good to Know Yuh
The Weavers3:09
11The Soldier and the Lady
The New Lost City Ramblers2:46
12John Henry
Mississippi John Hurt3:14
13If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)
Peter, Paul & Mary2:12
14We Shall Overcome (feat. Pete Seeger)
performer:
Pete Seeger
The Freedom Singers2:08
15The Times They Are A-Changin'
recorded in:
New York, New York, United States (on 1963-10-24)
producer:
Tom Wilson
part of:
Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (number: 59)
recording of:
The Times They Are A‐Changin’ (on 1963-10-24)
lyricist and composer:
Bob Dylan (in 1963)
publisher:
M. Witmark & Sons, Sony/ATV Music Publishing (UK) Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Bros. Music, Warner Bros., Inc., Warner/Chappell (from 1963 until 1991) and Special Rider Music (from 1991 to present)
Bob Dylan3:14
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