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A Field Guide to... Mississippi

Smithsonian Folkways

1 Don't Drive Me Away R.C. Smith 2:25

2 Mississippi Wants Freedom Child Development Group of Mississippi 0:58

3 Old John Booker - You Call That Gone Gus Cannon 1:45

4 Everybody's Rockin' The Hodges Brothers 2:29

5 Farro Street Jive/ Farish St. Jive Little Brother Montgomery 2:19

6 World Unknown Male and female singers 1:40

7 It's Tight Like That Mississippi String Band, Tom Johnson, and John Copeland 2:07

8 Freedom Is a Constant Struggle Barbara Dane The Chambers Brothers 4:21

9 Back Water Rising Napoleon Strickland The Como Drum Band 1:56

10 I Have to Paint My Face Sam Chatmon 2:50

11 Introduction: Speech / When the Way Is Dark and Dreary / I Heard My Old Mother Call Richard Jolla 2:22

12 We Praise Your Holy Name The Mississippi Mass Choir 5:52

13 Me and My Chauffeur Lucinda Williams 3:17

14 For us, the events-- / It is something-- / Congregation: Ain't no danger-- / Since I went down-- / Congregation: Oh, Keep Your Eyes on the Fire Unspecified 3:58

15 Stealin' Johnny Young 2:46

16 I Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down Mississippi Fred McDowell Annie Mae McDowell 1:45

17 Columbus, Mississippi Blues Bukka White 3:33

18 Jackson, Mississippi Margaret Walker 4:00

19 Big Road Blues Mager Johnson 3:49

20 The Death of Dr. Martin Luther King Big Joe Williams 2:52

21 Catfish Big Jack Johnson 3:31

22 City Called Heaven Fannie Lou Hamer 3:27

23 Easy Rider Scott, Celeste, and Rosie Dunbar 3:56

24 Jimmy Bell Cat-Iron 2:21

25 Two Bugs and a Roach Earl Hooker 4:20

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