Notes by Cece Conway and Scott Odell, texts, bibliography, discography, filmography, videography and credits on original container insert.

Originally issued as compact disc.

Produced and annotated by Cece Conway and Scott Odell.

Smithsonian/Folkways: SF 40079 (on original container spine: SF CD 40079).

Recorded between 1974 & 1997.

Title on original container: Black banjo songsters of North Carolina and Virginia

Music Online. American music.

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Coo coo (John Snipes)

Coo coo (Dink Roberts)

Old rattler : fox chase (John Snipes)

Georgie Buck (Dink Roberts)

Georgia Buck (Joe Thompson & Odell Thompson)

John Henry (James Roberts)

High sheriff ; John Hardy ; Garfield ; Old corn liquor (Dink Roberts)

Old corn liquor ; John Henry (Joe Thompson & Odell Thompson)

Love somebody (Joe Thompson & Tommy Thompson)

Long tail blue (John Snipes)

Ain't gonna rain no more (John Snipes & Tommy Thompson)

Going where I've never been before (John Snipes)

Black Annie ; Old blue (Dink Roberts)

Going away from home (Take care of my wife and child) ; You don't know my darling (John Snipes)

Jaybird march (Etta Baker & Cora Phillips)

Going up north (John Jackson)

Sugar Hill (Homer Walker)

Momma don't allow (Irvin Cook & Leonard Bowles)

Shortnin' bread (Leonard Bowles)

Shortnin' bread ("Big Sweet" Lewis Hairston)

Fox chase (John Tyree)

Roustabout (Dink Roberts)

Cookin' in the kitchen (John Snipes)

Coo coo bird (Rufus Kasey)

Fox chase (Dink Roberts)

Little brown jug (Joe Thompson, Odell Thompson & Tommy Thompson).

African-Americans > North Carolina > Music.

African-Americans > Virginia > Music.

Folk music > North Carolina.

Folk music > Virginia.

Folk songs, English > North Carolina.

Folk songs, English > Virginia.