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- Genre: Country/Folk
- Style: Traditional Folk
- Label: Shanachie Entertainment / The Orchard
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This ambitious and thought-provoking project turns to early black-and-white, religious, and secular traditions for antecedents to modern rap styles. Drawing from the commercial recordings of the 1920s and '30s, The Roots of Rap provides a broad sampling of rural voices straddling the lines of speech and song against the rhythms of piano, banjo, and guitar. The roots of rap, this collection argues, existed in early black work songs and in the Southern pulpit; in the performances of singing street evangelists; and in black vocal traditions such as the "dozens." Early forms of rap emerged in the vaudeville routines of minstrel and medicine shows, arising also in the country humor and talking blues of many rural white performers. To illustrate its thesis, the album draws from some of the greatest performers of the period, including Blind Willie Johnson, Seven Foot Dilly, Butterbeans and Susie, and Memphis Minnie, whose extraordinarily funky "Frankie Jean" closes the set. Like the best of Yazoo's projects, this effort is carefully and intelligently constructed, as well as consistently entertaining.
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| 01. |  |
If I Had My Way I'd Tear This Building Down
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3:12 |  |
| 02. | |
Cocaine Blues
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3:18 | |
| 03. | |
Bow Wow Blues
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3:21 | |
| 04. | |
Jive Man Blues
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2:54 | |
| 05. | |
Jonah In The Wilderness
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2:57 | |
| 06. | |
South Carolina Rag
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3:13 | |
| 07. | |
Whitewash Station
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2:45 | |
| 08. | |
Automobile Ride Through
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3:17 | |
| 09. | |
The Dirty Dozen No. 2
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2:59 | |
| 10. | |
Tain't None O' Your Business
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3:21 | |
| 11. | |
It's A Good Thing
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2:59 | |
| 12. | |
She's A Hum Dum Dinger
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2:47 | |
| 13. | |
Papa's On The House Top
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2:57 | |
| 14. | |
Let That Liar Alone
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2:37 | |
| 15. | |
Back In My Home
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3:04 | |
| 16. | |
Track Linin'
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2:48 | |
| 17. | |
Atlanta Strut
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3:12 | |
| 18. | |
Arkansas Hard Luck Blues
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2:43 | |
| 19. | |
How Can You Have The Blues?
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2:53 | |
| 20. | |
Pickin' Off Peanuts |
3:29 | |
| 21. | |
Nobody Knows You When You're Down & Out
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2:47 | |
| 22. | |
When I Stopped Running I Was At Home
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3:24 | |
| 23. | |
Frankie Jean
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2:51 | |
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- Scrapper Blackwell - ? // Leroy Carr - Performer // Leroy Carr - Performer // Leroy Carr - ? // Leroy Carr - ? // Blind Willie Johnson - Vocals // Blind Willie Johnson - Vocals // Blind Willie Johnson - Slide Guitar // Blind Willie Johnson - Slide Guitar // Blind Willie Johnson - Performer // Blind Willie Johnson - Performer // Blind Willie McTell - Guitar // Blind Willie McTell - Guitar // Blind Willie McTell - Guitar // Blind Willie McTell - Performer // Blind Willie McTell - Performer // Blind Willie McTell - Performer // Memphis Jug Band - Performer // Memphis Jug Band - Performer // Memphis Jug Band - ? // Memphis Jug Band - ? // Memphis Minnie - Performer // Memphis Minnie - Performer // Memphis Minnie - ? // Memphis Minnie - ? // Frank Stokes - ? // Henry Thomas - Performer // Henry Thomas - ? // Jimmie Davis - Performer // Jimmie Davis - Performer // Jimmie Davis - ? // Jimmie Davis - ? // Speckled Red - Piano // Speckled Red - Performer // Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon - ? // Pinetop Smith - ? // Clifford Hayes - ? // Clifford Hayes - ? // Clifford Hayes - ? // Clifford Hayes - ? // Allen Brothers - Performer // Allen Brothers - ? // The Beale Street Sheiks - Performer // The Beale Street Sheiks - ? // Butterbeans & Susie - Performer // Butterbeans & Susie - ? // Frank Hutchison - Performer // Frank Hutchison - ? // Luke Jordan - Performer // Luke Jordan - ? // Kansas City Kitty & Georgia Tom - Performer // Kansas City Kitty & Georgia Tom - ? // Earl McDonald - ? // Rufus G. Perryman - Piano // Dan Sane - ? // Robert Vosgien - Digital Mastering // Willie Walker - Performer // Willie Walker - ? // Rev. Thomas A. Dorsey - ? // Don Kent - Producer // Don Kent - Liner Notes // Richard Nevins - Producer // Richard Nevins - Remastering // Lonnie Glosson - Harmonica // Lonnie Glosson - Performer // John Dilleshaw - Guitar // Joan Pelosi - Art Direction // Mozelle Alderson - ? // Prince Laval - Vocals // The Dixieland Jug Blowers - Performer // The Dixieland Jug Blowers - ?
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