Alan Lomax Archive | 15 - "Trials, Troubles, Tribulations" @AlanLomaxArchive | Uploaded November 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
Our eschatological episode of the program. Songs on final things: the end of the world, the end of time, judgement day, "when the stars begin to fall," etc.
Playlist (links to catalog records in the Lomax Digital Archive):
[Bed music] Fred McDowell: Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning (archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/southern-us-1959-and-1960/como-iii-959/keep-your-lamps-trimmed-and-burning-ii)
1. E.C. Ball & Lacey Richardson: Tribulations (archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/southern-us-1959-and-1960/rugby-859/trials-troubles-tribulations-i) (Rugby, Virginia, August 1959) [Your host credited Orna Ball rather than her brother Lacey Richardson as E.C.'s accompanist.]
2. James Moore and friends: World Is Goin' To Destruction (archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/mississippi-delta-survey-1941-1942/sadie-beck-plantation-742/world-goin-destruction) (At the home of Dave Roland, Sadie Beck Plantation, Arkansas, July 1942)
3. Holly Springs Sacred Harp singing: New Georgia (#534) (youtu.be/Jrxdl9KeHYI) (Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church, H.S., Georgia, June 1982)
4. Taylor-Griggs' Louisiana Melody Makers: When the Moon Drips Into the Blood (youtube.com/watch?v=GKb5L83UtcY)(Victor Records, V-40083, Memphis, Tennessee, September 1928)
[bonus: Sampson Caldwell and J.F. "Farmer" Collett: Jesus Getting Us Ready For That Great Day (archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/kentucky-1937/gardner-937/jesus-getting-us-ready-great-day) (At the home of John Sizemore, Gardner, Clay Co. - not Leslie Co. as announced - Kentucky, September 1937)]
5. Hobart Smith, Preston Smith, and Texas Gladden: When the Stars Begin To Fall (archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/southern-us-1959-and-1960/bluefield-i-859/when-stars-begin-fall)(Bluefield, Virginia, August 1959)
6. Belleville A Cappella Choir: My Lord, What A Morning (archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/southern-us-1959-and-1960/belleville-460/when-stars-begin-fall) (Church of God and Saints in Christ, Belleville, Virginia, April 1960)
7. Group of six men: An-nar (The Hellfire) (archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/morocco-1967/fes-iii-967/nar-hellfire) (Fes, Morocco, September 1967)
8. Mrs. Ross, Rev. Cyphers, and the congregation of True Light Baptist Church: That Awful Day Will Surely Come (archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/morocco-1967/fes-iii-967/nar-hellfire) (Dallas, Texas, February 1948)
9. (Sensational?) Friendly Brothers of Tallulah, Louisiana: Where Shall I Be When the First Trumpet Sounds (youtube.com/watch?v=-sbmkj3hklc) (St. James Baptist Church, Canton, Mississippi, August 1978)
10. Lillie & Thelma Knox: Where Shall I Be When the First Trumpet Sounds (archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/england-and-wales-1951-1958/murrells-inlet-737/when-first-trumpet-sounds) (Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, July 1937)
11. Rev. Dickson, Ebenezer Elliott, and congregation of Indian Walk London Baptist Church: Want To Go To the Happy Land (archive.culturalequity.org/solr-search/content/list?search_api_fulltext=happy%20land) (Indian Walk, Princes Town, Trinidad, May 1962)
12. St. Vincent Spiritual Baptist congregation: On That Great Day (uploaded to YouTube by The Admiral Quow, November 2010)
13. Georgia Sea Island Singers: One of These Days (archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/southern-us-1959-and-1960/st-simons-island-i-1059/one-these-days) (St. Simons Island, Georgia, October 1959)
Our eschatological episode of the program. Songs on final things: the end of the world, the end of time, judgement day, "when the stars begin to fall," etc.
Playlist (links to catalog records in the Lomax Digital Archive):
[Bed music] Fred McDowell: Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning (archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/southern-us-1959-and-1960/como-iii-959/keep-your-lamps-trimmed-and-burning-ii)
1. E.C. Ball & Lacey Richardson: Tribulations (archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/southern-us-1959-and-1960/rugby-859/trials-troubles-tribulations-i) (Rugby, Virginia, August 1959) [Your host credited Orna Ball rather than her brother Lacey Richardson as E.C.'s accompanist.]
2. James Moore and friends: World Is Goin' To Destruction (archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/mississippi-delta-survey-1941-1942/sadie-beck-plantation-742/world-goin-destruction) (At the home of Dave Roland, Sadie Beck Plantation, Arkansas, July 1942)
3. Holly Springs Sacred Harp singing: New Georgia (#534) (youtu.be/Jrxdl9KeHYI) (Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church, H.S., Georgia, June 1982)
4. Taylor-Griggs' Louisiana Melody Makers: When the Moon Drips Into the Blood (youtube.com/watch?v=GKb5L83UtcY)(Victor Records, V-40083, Memphis, Tennessee, September 1928)
[bonus: Sampson Caldwell and J.F. "Farmer" Collett: Jesus Getting Us Ready For That Great Day (archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/kentucky-1937/gardner-937/jesus-getting-us-ready-great-day) (At the home of John Sizemore, Gardner, Clay Co. - not Leslie Co. as announced - Kentucky, September 1937)]
5. Hobart Smith, Preston Smith, and Texas Gladden: When the Stars Begin To Fall (archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/southern-us-1959-and-1960/bluefield-i-859/when-stars-begin-fall)(Bluefield, Virginia, August 1959)
6. Belleville A Cappella Choir: My Lord, What A Morning (archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/southern-us-1959-and-1960/belleville-460/when-stars-begin-fall) (Church of God and Saints in Christ, Belleville, Virginia, April 1960)
7. Group of six men: An-nar (The Hellfire) (archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/morocco-1967/fes-iii-967/nar-hellfire) (Fes, Morocco, September 1967)
8. Mrs. Ross, Rev. Cyphers, and the congregation of True Light Baptist Church: That Awful Day Will Surely Come (archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/morocco-1967/fes-iii-967/nar-hellfire) (Dallas, Texas, February 1948)
9. (Sensational?) Friendly Brothers of Tallulah, Louisiana: Where Shall I Be When the First Trumpet Sounds (youtube.com/watch?v=-sbmkj3hklc) (St. James Baptist Church, Canton, Mississippi, August 1978)
10. Lillie & Thelma Knox: Where Shall I Be When the First Trumpet Sounds (archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/england-and-wales-1951-1958/murrells-inlet-737/when-first-trumpet-sounds) (Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, July 1937)
11. Rev. Dickson, Ebenezer Elliott, and congregation of Indian Walk London Baptist Church: Want To Go To the Happy Land (archive.culturalequity.org/solr-search/content/list?search_api_fulltext=happy%20land) (Indian Walk, Princes Town, Trinidad, May 1962)
12. St. Vincent Spiritual Baptist congregation: On That Great Day (uploaded to YouTube by The Admiral Quow, November 2010)
13. Georgia Sea Island Singers: One of These Days (archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/southern-us-1959-and-1960/st-simons-island-i-1059/one-these-days) (St. Simons Island, Georgia, October 1959)
