Free Tracks
The 20 tracks from the book are now available online for download. To download the tracks, right click the link and “Save As…”.
1. Levee Camp Holler (Got Me ‘Cused of Forgin’) – Lewis (Billy) Bell
3. Convicts, state penitentiary, Parchman: “Dem Long Summer Days” (2:30) Parchman, 1936 (JAL)
5. Jesse James Jefferson: “Walk Around” (2:33) Clarksdale, 1942 (JW)
6. Irene Williams: “Come On Oar” (1:50) Rome, 1940 (JAL & RTL)
7. Walter Whitehead: “Last Night and the Night Before” (0:21) Drew, 1940 (JAL & RTL)
8. Two girls [sic]: “I Met Brother Rabbit” (0:24) Greenville, 1939 (HH)
9. Doretha Cook and Bessie Lee Huffman: “One Year Twenty-Four Years Ago” (0:32), Greenville, 1939 (HH)
10. Bessie Lee Huffman: “Jump Po’ Rabbit” (0:44) Greenville, 1939 (HH)
11. Mrs. A. Williams [Annie Williams]: “Shout For Joy” (3:48) Friars Point, 1942 (AL)
12. Emma Jane Davis & Group: “Little Sally Walker” (0:36) Friars Point, 1942 (AL)
13. Emma Jane Davis & Group: “Shortenin’ Bread” (2:16) Friars Point, 1942 (AL)
14. Turner Junior Johnson: “Preacher Let Your Heart Catch on Fire” (2:50) Coahoma County, 1942 (AL)
15. Asa Ware: “Levee Camp Song (Before I Go)” (0:50) Hopson Plantation, 1942 (AL)
16. Houston Bacon [with Elias Boykin]: “Lining Track or Calling Track” (12:13), Clarksdale, 1942 (AL)
17. Unidentified Negro: Toast [“You Shall Be Free”] (1:29) Sherard, 1942 (AL)
18. Will Starks: Interview (14:04) Clarksdale, 1942 (AL)
19. Will Starks: “My Old Mistis Promised Me” (3:11) Clarksdale, 1942 (AL)
20. Will Starks: Toast [“Doodley Doo”] (1:46) Clarksdale, 1942 (AL)
