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Label:
   Rounder - http://www.rounder.com/
Serial:
   ROUN1863
Title:
   Alan Lomax - Popular Songbook
Description:
   "Alan Lomax, Popular Songbook"

Various Artists
Details:
   1. Joe Lee’s Rock - Boy Blue, Joe Lee, Darnell Walker
2. Do Re Mi - Woody Guthrie
3. Jesus on the Mainline-  James Shorty, Viola James, Independence Church congregation
4. Midnight Special - Leadbelly
5. Stagolee - Memphis Slim, Sonny Boy Williamson, Big Bill Broonzy
6. Trouble So Hard - Vera Ward Hall
7. Motherless Children - Felix Dukes, Mississippi Fred McDowell
8. Sometimes - Bessie Jones
9. Black Betty - James “Iron Head” Baker
10. Take a Whiff on Me - Leadbelly
11. Didn’t Leave Nobody but the Baby - Sidney Lee Carter
12. Goin’ Down the Road Feeling Bad - Woody Guthrie
13. Rock Island Line - Kelly Pace and prisoners of Cumins State Farm
14. Join the Band - John Davis and the Georgia Sea Island singers
15. Sloop John B. - Cleveland Simmons group
16. Man Smart, Woman Smarter - Macbeth the Great, Gerald Clark Orchestra
17. Ugly Woman (If You Wanna Be Happy) - Duke of Iron, Gerald Clark Orchestra
18. Gallows Pole - Leadbelly
19. Rosie - Dobie Red and prisoners of Parchman Farm Penitentiary
20. Alborada de Vigo - José Maria Rodriguez
21. The House of the Rising Sun (Rising Sun Blues) - Georgia Turner
22. Irene Goodnight (Goodnight Irene) - Leadbelly
Genre:
   Folk
Content:
   Stereo
Media:
   Hybrid
Recording type:
   Analogue
Recording info:
  
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Reviews:
The Secret Origins of Moby (review from amazon.com)
I already had a passing knowledge of the work of Alan Lomax before I first heard Moby's "Play" album in 2001. But the strangely exhilerating sound of the sampled Lomax field recordings mixed with electronic dance beats, made me curious to find and hear the original recordings. And I've really been meaning to do that -- since 2001. Fortunately, Rounder has done some serious legwork for me: "Popular Songbook" includes three tracks used by Moby for "Play" ("Sometimes", "Joe Lee's Rock", and Trouble So Hard" were heavily sampled in Moby's "Honey", "Find My Baby" and "Natural Blues", respectively), and the 1959 original version of "Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby", which was re-worked and performed in the "O Brother Where Art Thou" soundtrack. Plus a 1937 "Midnight Special" by Lead Belly, a truly rockin' 1947 "Stagolee" by Memphis Slim, and that's just for starters. I have read some rather condescending reviews of this collection from folk music academics, getting all sniffy at the notion of 21st Century radio airplay dictating the track choices for a folk music collection -- yeah, whatevah! For us middlebrow-type music lovers who've been meaning to check out this Alan Lomax guy but never quite gotten around to it, "Popular Songbook" is a good starter kit.