Dirty Linen (4-5/00, p.64) - "...Variety is abundant among the 25 offerings [here]....Dobie Red and eight fellow Parchman Penitentiary prisoners sing a rendition of 'Stewball', which functioned to pace convicts during wood-chopping duties....a fascinating musical window on the past."
DEEP RIVER OF SONG: MISSISSIPPI: SAINTS & SINNERS contains field recordings made by Alan Lomax, John A. Lomax, Ruby T. Lomax, Lewis Jones, and Herbert Halpert.
Performers include: Big Charlie Butler, Lucious Curtis & Willie Ford, Thomas "Jaybird" Jones, Joe Shores, Jim Henry, Sid Hemphill, Alec Askew, Will Head, Will Starks, Crap Eye, Jeff Webster, Joe Miller, Dobie Red, Frank Evans, Rev. X.H. Savage, Henry Joiner, Annie Anderson, Deacon Tom Jones.
Producer: Alan Lomax.
Compilation producers: Anna Lomax Chairetakis, Jeffrey A. Greenberg.
Recorded between 1936 and 1942. Includes liner notes by David Evans.
This is part of Rounder's Alan Lomax Collection.