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Sound Recordings (continued)
MBRS Rack Number: RXG 0779 AFC 1975/001: SR109, Recorded: unknown
Running time: 29:45
This is a continuation of SR108 (1) and SR108 (3). It appears to be the making of a demo of two (unidentified) women singers with banjo, guitar and bass. An unidentified male singer is also on several songs. A previously used tape was used for this session, so in several places the original recordings are briefly heard.
Time Content
Start A big band is heard briefly
0:31 "Fare ye Well My Own True Love" (take 1)
3:20 "Fare ye Well My Own True Love" (take 2)
6:08 Talking
6:33 "Fare ye Well My Own True Love" (take 3)
8:10 "Fare ye Well My Own True Love" (take 4)
10:30 Talking, laughing and preparation for the next song
11:23 First line: "If he's gone let him go, let him sink or let him swim"
13:48 Talking
14:01 "Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow"
16:45 Talking
16:58 "Doney Gal" (take 1)
19:42 Talking
20:03 "Doney Gal" (take 2)
23:47 talking
24:24 "You Are My Sunshine" (take 1)
25:12 Laughter
25:30 "You Are My Sunshine" (take 2)
28:10 Big Band music and the sign off of a radio broadcast called "Pipeline"
0:31 "Fare ye Well My Own True Love" (take 1)
MBRS Rack Number: RXG 0780 AFC 1975/001: SR111, Recorded: unknown
Running time: 14:01
This recording seems to be a set of dubs of political songs from phonograph records. There are several male performers. Several of the songs have Canadian themes.
Time Content Performer(s)
Start "This Land is our Land" [Canadian Version] performer 1, banjo
2:26 "Brand New Democratic Party Train" performer #1, banjo
5:41 first line: "A Douglas for me, a Douglas for me, if you're not a Douglas you're no use to me" performer #2, guitar
6:50 Repeat of previous song
8:05 ["We Are Building a New Party"] [to the tune of "Jacob's Ladder"] performer #3, guitar
9:49 "We Shall Not Be Moved" performer, guitar
11:57 "Solidarity Forever" performer, guitar
14:01 End
MBRS Rack Number: RAA 54540 AFC 1975/001: SR0112, Recorded: undated
[no tape log is available for this item]
[Tape box is labeled "Skip James interview."]
MBRS Rack Number: RXG 0781 AFC 1975/001: SR113, Recorded: unknown
Running time: 17:41
This is a recording of six songs by an unidentified male singer and his guitar. There seems to two men doing the recording; neither of them sounds like John Dildine. The guitar is quite clear but the lyrics are difficult to understand. The singer sounds like an older African American.
Time Content Performer(s)
Start Talking about the next song.
0:49 "Drunken Spree" unknown performer, vocal and guitar
3:20 Talking about the next song.
4:28 ["Won't You Go Along New?"] unknown performer, vocal and guitar
6:04 Talking about the next song.
7:12 Unidentified song. [The singer says the title is a "girl's name." It is something like "Celon."] unknown performer, vocal and guitar
8:00 Talking about the next song.
9:17 "All Night Long" (take 1) unknown performer, vocal and guitar
10:34 Talking about the next song.
10:52 "All Night Long" (take 2) unknown performer, vocal and guitar
14:00 Talking about the next song.
14:38 "All Night Long" (take 3) unknown performer, vocal and guitar
17:41 End
MBRS Rack Number: RAA 54541 AFC 1975/001: SR0114, Recorded: undated
[no tape log is available for this item]
[from original inventory, this is likely part of the "Skip James interview."]
MBRS Rack Number: RAA 54542 AFC 1975/001: SR0115, Recorded: undated
[no tape log is available for this item]
[from original inventory, this is likely part of the "Skip James interview."]
MBRS Rack Number: RAA 54543 AFC 1975/001: SR0116, Recorded: undated
[no tape log is available for this item]
[from original inventory, this is likely part of the "Skip James interview."]
MBRS Rack Number: RAA 54544 AFC 1975/001: SR0117, Recorded: undated
[no tape log is available for this item]
[from original inventory, this is likely part of the "Skip James interview."]
MBRS Rack Number: RAA 54545 AFC 1975/001: SR0118, Recorded: undated
[no tape log is available for this item]
[from original inventory, this is likely part of the "Skip James interview."]
MBRS Rack Number: RAA 54546 AFC 1975/001: SR0119, Recorded: undated
[no tape log is available for this item]
[from original inventory, this is likely part of the "Skip James interview."]
MBRS Rack Number: RXG 0782 AFC 1975/001: SR120, Recorded: unknown
Running time: 12:11
This appears to be a recording session of an unidentified blues singer-guitar player.
Time Content
Start Discussion of the recording of the next song.
1:32 Guitar picking in preparation for the next song.
2:10 "Catfish Blues" - start
2:40 Getting ready for take.
2:47 "Catfish Blues" (take 1)
4:27 Discussion about another take.
4:49 "Catfish Blues" (take 2)
6:33 Getting ready for the next song.
8:02 "Bad, Bad Whiskey" (take 1)
9:50 Talking
10:02 "Bad, Bad Whiskey" (take 2)
11:01 Talking about the next song.
11:50 "Black Girl"
10:52 "All Night Long" (take 2)
MBRS Rack Number: RXG 0783 AFC 1975/001: SR121, Recorded: unknown
Running time: 11:51
In this recording an unidentified man reads a poem, 3 takes, then records a message to two raging seas"
Time Content
Start "The Wall" (take 1)
3:35 "The Wall" (take 2)
6:50 "The Wall" (take 3)
10:18 The reader records a message to John Dildine.
1:32 Guitar picking in preparation for the next song.
MBRS Rack Number: RXG 0820 AFC 1975/001: SR122, Recorded: undated
[no tape log is available for this item]
[the tape box indicates this may be "The Music of Kenya, British Information Services tape recording." ]
MBRS Rack Number: RXG 0784 AFC 1975/001: SR123, Recorded: probably 1961
Running time: 28:14
This is a recording of Peter Weston interviewing Jim Kweskin. Kweskin also sings and plays guitar. The recording session is continued on SR124. The recording was made in the home of Peter and Judy Weston in St. Louis, MO.
Time Content Performer(s)
Start Peter Weston talking with Jim Kweskin).
2:18 "You're No Good" (a Jesse Fuller song) Kweskin, vocal and guitar
3:55 Weston and Kweskin talk about "San Francisco Bay Blues" and Jesse Fuller's records. They talk about the next song.
6:49 "The Cuckoo" Kweskin, vocal and guitar
9:47 Weston and Kweskin talk about where Kweskin collects material.
11:45 "House of David Blues" Kweskin, vocal and guitar
14:12 Weston and Kweskin talk about the previous song.
16:00 blank
16:24 Recording resumes. Kweskin talks about the guitar tuning for the next song.
17:00 "Buffalo Skinners" Kweskin, vocal and guitar
21:38 Weston and Kweskin discuss the previous song. They discuss guitar tuning.
23:26 "Cherry Red" Kweskin, vocal and guitar
26:20 Weston and Kweskin talk about blues and other genres Kweskin plays. They talk about Kweskin playing the banjo.
28:19 End
MBRS Rack Number: RXG 0785 AFC 1975/001: SR124, Recorded: probably 1961
Running time: 30:42
This is a recording of Peter Weston interviewing Jim Kweskin. Kweskin also sings and plays guitar. The recording session began on SR123. The recording was made in the home of Peter and Judy Weston in St. Louis, MO.
Time Content Performer(s)
Start The next song is introduced
1:16 "Days of ‘49" Kweskin, vocal and guitar
5:20 Weston and Kweskin talk about Mississippi John Hurt. Weston asks Kweskin to play Hurt's song "Frankie."
7:18 "Frankie" Kweskin, vocal and guitar
10:00 Weston and Kweskin discuss the previous song and the next song.
10:59 "Stagolee" Kweskin, vocal and guitar
13:50 Weston and Kweskin talk about Kweskin's upcoming travel to Europe. Weston closed the recording.
15:05 This 15 minute segment is Weston sending a message to John Dildine about the Kweskin recording and what's going on in the music scene in St. Louis. He talks about why he's made this recording. He says that the club called the Laughing Buddha has burned down. He talks about a newly opened coffee shop which offers live music. He mentions Robin and Ellen Christenson, who are on other recordings in this collection. He mentions Jean Redpath, Odetta, and the Weavers playing in St. Louis. Judy Weston walks in and talks.
30:42 End
MBRS Rack Number: RXG 0786 AFC 1975/001: SR125, Recorded: unknown
Running time: 12:38
This SR seems to be dubs of an unidentified Bluegrass Band.
MBRS Rack Number: RXG 0787 AFC 1975/001: SR126, Recorded: ca. 1959-01
Running time: 30:52
This is the second part of a recording of a John Dildine radio broadcast with The New Lost City Ramblers: John Cohen, Mike Seeger and Tom Paley. The first part is on SR127.
Time Content Performer(s)
Start Dildine talks about magazines devoted to folk music including "Caravan" and "Sing Out!" He tells listener how to subscribe to "Sing Out!"
1:37 "Farewell to Tarwathie" (recorded) A.L. Lloyd and Ewan MacColl
4:07 Dildine and John Cohen talk.
5:02 "Charlie Was a Good Old Man" John Cohen, banjo solo
5:45 Cohen talks about the previous song and the next song.
6:14 "You Are My Sunshine" John Cohen, banjo solo
6:42 Dildine and Cohen talk about banjo tunings. Mike Seeger joins them.
7:53 "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" The NLCR
8:34 Dildine and The NLCR talk about bluegrass music and a bluegrass record that Seeger has just made. Seeger talks about the evolution of old time music into bluegrass. He mentions Jimmy Driftwood.
16:04 "Chewing Gum" The NLCR
17:53 Dildine and The NLCR talk about the previous song. Seeger says it came from a Carter Family recording. Tom Paley tunes his guitar.
19:10 "Buckdancers Choice" Paley, guitar solo
20:08 Getting ready for the next song.
21:13 "The wreck of the Tennessee Gravy Train" (an Uncle Dave Macon song) The NLCR
24:19 Dildine asks for one more song. He and Cohen talk about the folk song magazines "Caravan" and Sing Out!"
26:11 "Sally Goodin" The NLCR
27:30 Dildine closes the broadcast.
28:14 "Railroad Bill" (recorded) theme song
30:52 End
MBRS Rack Number: RXG 0788 AFC 1975/001: SR127, Recorded: ca. 1959-01
Running time: 26:02
This is the first part of a recording of a John Dildine radio broadcast with The New Lost City Ramblers: John Cohen, Mike Seeger and Tom Paley. The second part is on SR126.
Time Content Performer(s)
Start Opening theme, "Railroad Bill" recorded. Dildine introduces the program, a live session with the New Lost City Ramblers: John Cohen, Mike Seeger and Tom Paley. Dildine introduces the first song.
3:14 "Old Joe Clark," recorded Jimmy Driftwood
4:52 Dildine introduces the New Lost City Ramblers. He says this is 8 months since their first program (May, 1958).
5:56 "Forked Dear" The NLCR
6:48 Dildine and the NLCR talk about learning songs from old phonograph records, and other things.
9:32 "Beware, Young Ladies" The NLCR
11:57 they talk about the previous song and other songs from the Depression Era. They talk about folk music publications. They talk about Alan Lomax and an article in "Sing Out!"
15:30 "Leaving Home" (an unusual version of "Frankie and Johnny") The NLCR
18:32 Dildine and the NLCR talk about tuning their instruments.
20:17 While the NLCR are tuning, Dildine plays two recorded songs by A.L. Lloyd and Ewan MacColl, "Sperm Whale Fishing" and "Blood Red Roses." Also on the record are Peggy Seeger playing banjo and John Cohen playing harmonica.
25:37 Dildine talks about the previous songs.
26:02 End
MBRS Rack Number: RXG 0789 AFC 1975/001: SR128, Recorded: unknown
Running time: 32:15
This seems to be a copy, i.e. dub, of a record album of an unidentified male singer. On most songs he sings and plays guitar. However, the last song is a banjo solo.
Time Content Performer(s)
Start "Boll Weevil" vocal, guitar
3:44 "Devilish Mary" vocal, guitar
5:45 "The Devil and the Farmer's Wife" vocal, guitar
9:23 "Red Apple Juice" vocal, guitar
11:57 "Tom Cat Blues" vocal, guitar
14:32 "Way Down Town" or "A Dollar is All I Crave" vocal, guitar
18:00 "Seven Drunken Nights" also known as "Cabbage Head" also known as "You Old Fool vocal, guitar"
21:29 Unidentified banjo solo by the unidentified performer.
MBRS Rack Number: RXG 0790 AFC 1975/001: SR129, Recorded: unknown
Running time: 24:42
This is a set of blues songs by an unidentified male singer. He plays guitar on all the songs.
Time Content Performer(s)
Start "Motherless Children" vocal, guitar
4:24 unidentified blues song vocal, guitar
10:04 ["Keys to the Highway"] vocal, guitar
14:27 "Frankie and Albert" take 2 vocal, guitar
18:48 "Keep on Truckin' Mama" take 1 vocal, guitar
23:09 "Fare thee Well" or "Dink's Song" vocal, guitar
24:42 End
MBRS Rack Number: RXG 0791 AFC 1975/001: SR130, Recorded: unknown
Running time: 21:01
This is a set of blues and gospel songs by an unidentified male singer. He plays guitar on all the songs. On some of the songs someone plays harmonica.
Time Content Performer(s)
Start "Lose Your Money (But don't Lose your Mind" vocal, guitar
02:46 unidentified blues song vocal, guitar
04:45 ["Ain't That A Rockin'] the first line is "Now Moses was a little baby born in Egypt land" vocal, guitar, harmonica
07:38 "Oh, Mary Don't You Weep" vocal, guitar, harmonica
10:30 "Careless Love" vocal, guitar, harmonica
13:59 chorus: "Sorry to hear …. That's the Way It Goes " vocal, guitar
16:30 "James Alley Blues" vocal, guitar
21:01 End
MBRS Rack Number: RXG 0792 AFC 1975/001: SR131, Recorded: unknown
Running time: 34:02
This is a set of blues and gospel songs by an unidentified male singer.
Time Content Performer(s)
Start "Gravel" vocal, harmonica
03:22 "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean" vocal, guitar
06:30 "Poor Man but a Good Man" vocal, guitar
08:44 "Stagolee" vocal, guitar
12:51 "Noted Rider," take 1 vocal, guitar
15:25 "I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water" ["I Know You Rider"] vocal, guitar
17:32 "Twelve Gates to the City" vocal, guitar
18:57 unidentified song(s) harmonica solo(s)
22:35 first line "I don't know what you've been doin'" vocal, harmonica, guitar
24:10 [Bottle Up and Go"] vocal, harmonica, guitar
26:48 first line "Your mama don't allow you to stay out all night long" vocal, harmonica, guitar
29:50 "Keys to the Highway" vocal, guitar
34:02 End
MBRS Rack Number: RXG 0793 AFC 1975/001: SR132, Recorded: unknown [probably late 1950s]
Running time: 28:23
This is a recording of the second part of a John Dildine radio broadcast. In the first part (not taped) Dildine played recordings of Leadbelly. In this part his guest is Dave Sears who sings and plays banjo.
Time Content Performer(s)
Start Dildine introduces the program and Dave Sears.
00:40 Sears talks about the next song.
01:13 "Ox Driving Song" vocal and banjo
04:20 Dildine and Sears talk about using a barbeque grill at home.
06:09 "Dunderbeck's Machine" vocal and banjo
07:59 Dildine and Sears talk about children's songs.
09:08 "Ha Ha This-a-Way" vocal and banjo
11:16 Dildine and Sears talk about a Leadbelly Christmas song.
11:28 "Christmas is Coming (It's Almost Day)" vocal and banjo
12:06 Dildine and Sears discuss the previous song and the next song.
13:00 "On a Monday" vocal and banjo
15:10 Dildine does a station break.
16:28 Dildine and Sears talk about the next song.
17:33 "Roll On Columbia Roll On" vocal and banjo
21:18 Dildine and Sears talk about Woody Guthrie and the previous song.
22:12 "John Henry" vocal and banjo
25:50 Dildine thanks Dave Sears. Closing theme, "Railroad Bill." Dildine closes the program.
28:07 End of program
28:32 End of recording
MBRS Rack Number: RXG 0821 AFC 1975/001: SR133, Recorded: undated
[no tape log is available for this item]
[per the orginal inventory this may be "Tape of old 78 records found in St. Louis." ]
MBRS Rack Number: RXG 0794 AFC 1975/001: SR134, Recorded: unknown
Running time: 14:15
This appears to be "demo" recordings of several songs by two unidentified male performers.
Time Content Performer(s)
Start blank
0:39 "UAW" (Take 1) vocal, banjo and guitar
2:34 blank
2:47 "UAW" (Take 2) vocal, banjo and guitar
5:12 "UAW" chorus only vocal, banjo and guitar
5:43 "UAW" chorus only vocal, banjo and guitar
6:00 Dildine and performers doing sound set up and sound check.
7:45 "UAW" (Take 3) vocal, banjo and guitar
10:06 false starts
10:40 "Solidarity" (Take 1) vocal, banjo
11:27 "Solidarity" (Take 2) vocal and banjo
12:15 talking
12:35 "No Irish Need Apply" vocal, guitar
14:15 END
MBRS Rack Number: RXG 0795 AFC 1975/001: SR135, Recorded: unknown
Running time: 16:01
This is a John Dildine tape of recorded music.
Time Content Performer(s)
Start Dildine talks about songs and singing. He talks about the Archive of Folk Music at the Library of Congress. Native American music is playing in the background.]
3:02 An unidentified Sioux mother singing her child to sleep.
4:12 Dildine talks about the Mormon migration to Utah.
5:04 "The Handcart Song" introduces this traditional Mormon song [then sings it a capella.] An unidentified man
8:21 Dildine talks about the next song.
9:58 "Streets of Laredo" an unaccompanied man, a capella
11:50 Dildine introduces the next song.
12:17 A lament for the dead unidentified Sioux singing, flute [which may really be part of the next song]
13:12 Dildine introduces the next song.
13:42 A Sioux courting song unidentified man, flute and vocal
16:01 End
MBRS Rack Number: RXG 0796 AFC 1975/001: SR136 (1), Recorded: ca. 1963
Running time: 35:42
This is the first part of a spoken letter that Peter and Judy Weston are sending to John and Ginny Dildine.
Time Content Performer(s)
Start "Green Green Rocky Road" Dave Van Ronk, vocal and guitar
3:47 Peter Weston introduces the next song. [He attributes it to the Reverend Gary Davis. My research attributes it to Davis and to Blind Boy Fuller, 1936.]
4:28 "Baby Let Me Lay It On You" Dave Van Ronk, vocal and guitar
5:57 Peter and Judy Weston talk to the Dildines [via this tape recording]. They talk about [among other things] folk musicians, folk clubs, children, summer vacation, and their careers.
35:42 End
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