Negro RELIGIOUS FIELD RECORDINGS

[EEEOOOEEEOOOEEEOOO]

Cool. I had a professor who worked for Alan Lomax. He said he was an ass. I personally feel the Guthrie recordings alone gave him carte blanche to act like a complete tool to whoever he wanted.

[The Torsion]

Jennings? Fuck. Ugh.

[Spooky Apparition]

way better and more grim than anything Relapse ever considered releasing.

[Green Chamber]

way better and more grim than anything Relapse ever considered releasing.

You're telling me that dead niggers have a better shot at articulating something poignant than grown men with ankh necklaces? Banned from the archives.

[Bored, Esq.]

way better and more grim than anything Relapse ever considered releasing.

You're telling me that dead niggers have a better shot at articulating something poignant than grown men with ankh necklaces? Banned from the archives.

I wonder if Smegma jacks off to this stuff too.

[Green Chamber]

I'm not sure that I could really even convince myself that Smegma actually masturbates. I kind of imagine him as something that used to be human, but has become some sort of biomechanical wireframe creature smearing flesh and sinew all over some shitty old keyboard, obsessively archiving child porn before its battery runs out...

[Idget Child]

Document Records has so many releases. It would overwhelm the falses here who swear that listening to country blues makes them feel the pain.

[Bored, Esq.]

I'm not sure that I could really even convince myself that Smegma actually masturbates. I kind of imagine him as something that used to be human, but has become some sort of biomechanical wireframe creature smearing flesh and sinew all over some shitty old keyboard, obsessively archiving child porn before its battery runs out...

I see him with a bottle of whiskey in hand staring at his flaccid cock and desperately trying to imagine new scenes of arch blondes drinking red wine and firing Lugers into piles of burning bodies while laughing and laughing...

[caldwell.the.great]

Document Records has so many releases. It would overwhelm the falses here who swear that listening to country blues makes them feel the pain.

dude what are you talking about? apples. oranges. subjective experience. dancing about architecture. etc.

thanks for the heads up, Smegma!

[Frickin' Slayer]

you're welcome.

oops,forgot to log out

[Idget Child]

Document Records has so many releases. It would overwhelm the falses here who swear that listening to country blues makes them feel the pain.

dude what are you talking about?

Check any thread on this forum ever about folk music. I'm not going to say that everyone on the board is going to do this, but every thread has at least somebody posturing over how depressing or dark it is, nevermind if they could even name a folk or gospel tune off the top of their head.

Then again, I think you take my posting way too seriously on here since the few times you have ever personally acknowledged anything I say has been a little less than warm.

[The Torsion]

If church hymnals were regularly sung like this today, not only would I believe in God, I'd be fucking terrified of Him.

[caldwell.the.great]

Check any thread on this forum ever about folk music. I'm not going to say that everyone on the board is going to do this, but every thread has at least somebody posturing over how depressing or dark it is, nevermind if they could even name a folk or gospel tune off the top of their head.

Then again, I think you take my posting way too seriously on here since the few times you have ever personally acknowledged anything I say has been a little less than warm.

Totally don't mean to be a cold asshole, man.

As far as taking your post here seriously, I'm just guessing you mean what you say in a thread like this one...

About dark, depressing folk and country music: plenty of it is soulful and melancholy or whatever else you want to say about it. Most early country is predicated entirely upon being drunk, lonely, lost, or lowdown in some way or another. This gospel and spiritual music is on a totally different level, though. I wouldn't even try to compare the two! I also haven't heard a ton of this stuff because it's just not the kind of thing I'd normally toss on during the week. Maybe too intense for casual listening?

You seem to know the label, though... anything on it that's particularly awesome?

If church hymnals were regularly sung like this today, not only would I believe in God, I'd be fucking terrified of Him.

The worst thing about going to a lot of churches is the fucking music. I don't want to hear "row row your boat" after listening to a preacher/priest talk about Job or something like that.

[Idget Child]

You seem to know the label, though... anything on it that's particularly awesome?

Unfortunately, some of the releases are questionable 78 transfers, but they have four collections worth of Blind Lemon Jefferson. The regional field recordings series is worth checking out too. Outside of country blues, I haven't really looked into the other collections that this label has put out, but I still haven't heard the CD in the original post yet.

[Idget Child]

I definitely check out the music in that other thread, too, but I was actually not to taken by the transfers on the American Primitive set. I guess a good example would be the quality of the Charley Patton transfers on that collection versus the ones on the Revenant box set (you're right, Noah. It's the best collection you will find). I think the fact that the American Primitive collection is more notable for John Fahey's involvement in it than the material itself since there is a reasonable amount of pre-war gospel in documentation and available through several different labels.