Drop on down in Florida field recordings of African American

Le label Dust To Digital édite une fois de plus une belle compilation accompagnée d'un livre extrêmement bien documenté de plus de 200 pages. Après la magnifique compilation 'Black Mirror' [MA0206] parue en 2007 et plus récemment le coffret 'Your Past Comes To Haunt You' de John Fahey [XF0389]; Le label réédite en CD deux vinyls parus en 1981 sous le titre de "Down in Florida: Recent Field Recordings of Afro-American Traditional Music in 1981" augmentés de 28 plages inédites et de textes mettant en lumière les communautés dont proviennent ces musiques séculaires ainsi que sacrées. Tracklist : 1 Early one foggy morning / 2 Boogie / 3 Questionnaire blues / 4 Mean mistreater blues / 5 Tain't but the one thing that grieves my mind / 6 Baby, please don't go / 7 Old forty / 8 Careless love / 9 Polk county blues / 10 Polk county blues / 11 Old-time rounders / 12 She's a fool, she ain't got no sense / 13 Mobile blues / 14 I'm gonna dig myself a hole / 15 I'll find my way / 16 Drinkin'bad bad whiskey / 17 I'm from itta bena, mississippi / 18 Rolling and tumbling / 19 Sitting on top of the world / 20 Mama got more out of me away from home / 21 I was natalie roberta's son / 22 Harmonica solo / 23 Harmonica 'hustle' / 24 The train / 25 Catfish blues / 26 Come back, baby / 27 Apple farm blues / 28 13 highway / 29 Which way did my baby go? / 30 That's all right / 31 Precious lord, take my hand / 32 Will the circle be unbroken / 33 He got the whole world in his hand / 34 I don't know what i'd do without the lord / 35 Motherless children / 36 Do, lord, remember me / 37 Trial in judgment / 38 When the saints go marching in (when the moon go down in blood) / 39 You got to move / 40 I knew it was the blood / 41 In the morning / 42 He's a battle axe / 43 I don't know what i'd do without the lord / did christ o'er sinners weep? (the weeping savior) / 44 Altar call / congregational prayer / he set me free / 45 God's gonna set the world on fire / 46 Inside the pearly gates / 47 The old ship of zion / 48 Florida storm / 49 Service of the lord / 50 Sweet morning / 51 Alas! and did my saviour bleed / 52 Pisgah / 53 Parting hand