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Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick 58–71 (Vinyl)

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Release Date: 09/08/2023
Various - Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick 58–71 (Vinyl)
Barcode: 093074026014

In the 1950s and 60s, the blues was the dominant form of Black vernacular music throughout Texas and the surrounding areas. In segregated neighborhoods, community members gathered in saloons, dancehalls, and each other's homes to hear their neighbors sing their stories of sorrow, heartbreak, jubilation, and triumph. Robert "Mack" McCormick, an academically untrained but fanatical devotee of the blues, stepped into this world and became one of it's most devout advocates and documentarians. By photographing Black and Latino Texans and their neighborhoods, as well as recording and interviewing musicians-many of whom never stepped foot into a proper recording studio-McCormick endeared and eventually embedded himself into these communities. By the time he died in 2015, McCormick had amassed a collection of 590 reels of sound recordings and 165 boxes of manuscripts, original interviews and research notes, thousands of photographs and negatives, playbills, and posters. Because McCormick never published or released most of these materials, his collection became a thing of legend and intense speculation among scholars, blues aficionados, and musicians alike. Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick, 1958-1971 is the first compilation of music drawn from this fabled collection, which indelibly documents a pivotal moment in African American history. It features never-before-heard performances not only from musicians who became icons in their own right-including Lightnin' Hopkins and Mance Lipscomb-but also, crucially, performers whose names may be unfamiliar to even the most devoted blues fans and scholars. Newly mastered recordings and accompanying photographs bring to life many of these forgotten figures: offering insight into their lives and illuminating in new, enlightening ways their joys and anguish, deep social connections, distinctive voices, and cultural networks. The collection spans gospels, ragtime, country blues dirges, the unclassifiable music of George "Bongo Joe" Coleman, and more, showing that no community, no matter how tight knit, is monolithic. Accompanying the music is a 128-page book, which contains breathtaking photographs by McCormick and his associates, as well as contextual essays by producers Jeff Place and John Troutman on McCormick's life, and by musicians Mark Puryear and Dom Flemons on some of the marginalized communities throughout "Greater Texas" to which McCormick devoted his life's work. This release is a partnership with the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

Track List

  1. Mojo Hand
  2. God Moves on the Water
  3. The Clinton
  4. Sugar Blues
  5. St. James Infirmary
  6. Darlin' (You Know I Love You)
  7. You Gonna Look Like a Monkey
  8. One Room Country Shack
  9. Groceries on My Shelf (Piggly Wiggly)
  10. 3 O'Clock Blues
  11. Anything from a Foot Race to a Resting Place
  12. Salty Dog Rag
  13. Goin' to the River
  14. Quills
  15. Ma Pa Cut the Cake
  16. Crazy About Oklahoma
  17. Little Red Rooster
  18. My Work Will Be Done
  19. Steel Guitar Rag
  20. Tall Angel at the Bar
  21. This Whole World's in a Sad Condition
  22. World's in a Tangle
  23. Someday Baby
  24. It's Alright
  25. Cryin' Won't Make Me Stay
  26. China Tea
  27. Put Your Money Where Your Mouth
  28. Tom Moore's Farm
  29. Tom Moore's Farm
  30. Don't Do Me No Small Favors (Help the Bear)
  31. Fox Chase
  32. Black Widow Spider Blues
  33. Come and Go with Me to That Land
  34. Rollin' and Tumblin'
  35. Train Roll Up
  36. Shorty George
  37. Matchbox Blues
  38. It's My Life Baby
  39. Hello Central Gimme
  40. Bad Lee Brown
  41. Tin Can Alley Blues
  42. Medicine Show Pitch
  43. So Different Blues
  44. I Feel So Good
  45. Mr. Charlie
  46. The Ma Grinder
  47. Deep Ellum Blues
  48. K.C. Ain't Nothing But a Rag
  49. Lonesome Road
  50. Old Judge Blues
  51. The Slop
  52. Corrine Corrina
  53. Talking Blues
  54. Good Times Here Better Times Down the Road
  55. Put Me in the Alley
  56. Auctioneer
  57. Runaway
  58. Broke and Hungry
  59. Big Road Blues
  60. Casey Jones
  61. Atomic Energy
  62. Natural Born Lover
  63. Swanee River Boogie
  64. Rock Me Baby
  65. Blues Jumped a Rabbit
  66. George Coleman for President Nobody for Vice President

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