New recordings, press releases, media resources, music industry comment and more from Ulysses Arts. Now for the first time on CD and digital sites, here is the opportunity for collectors new and old to acquire this ground-breaking series at an affordable price. Songsters and saints by Oliver, Paul, 1984, Cambridge University Press edition, in English Songsters and saints (1984 edition) Open Library It looks like you're offline. The importance of these early Blues and Gospel recordings cannot be underestimated: they form the backbone of rock ‘n’ roll, R & B, Motown and other popular forms. These same companies issued ‘hillbilly’ music for the white audience. These early Blues recordings on what was termed ‘race’ records by the white-owned record companies were intended for an exclusively black audience. These final albums contain wonderful, iconic and memorable tracks which bring the original Bluesmaster series of 42 albums on seven sets to a rewarding and amazing climax. Saints : The Straining Preachers, Saints of Church and Street Songsters : Medicine Show Songsters, Songsters East And West Saints : Baptist and Sanctified Preachers, Gospel Soloists and Evangelists, Songsters : Dances and Travelling Shows, Comment, Parodies & Ballad Heroes The Songsters and Saints volumes 1 and 2 make up the final four albums in the Set under the headings:
The Set’s first two albums feature renowned guitarist and singer, Lonnie Johnson and the wild hokum music of The Famous Hokum Boys ( Big Bill Broonzy, Georgia Tom and Frank Brasswell). Paul’s wonderfully illuminating notes accompany all six albums. (Songsters and Saints, Paul Oliver, p221). 1-6 because it features Paul Oliver’s selection of sacred and secular tracks to illustrate his book Songsters and Saints - a ground-breaking book at the time. variety of songs and music priding themselves on their range, versatility, and capacity to pick up a tune. Over 500 artists and 700 song titles are indexed and there is a guide to reissued recordings.Set 7 differs from Nos. Paul Oliver shows that this emphasis has drawn attention away from the other important vocal traditions also available on Race records: the songs of Southern rural dances, the comic and social songs and ballads of the medicine shows and traveling entertainments, and, even more neglected, the sacred vocal traditions, from the song-sermons of the Baptist and Sanctified preachers to the gospel songs of the church congregations and of the 'jack-leg' preachers and street evangelists. Blues as performed on the professional stage and, later, folk blues from the South have been extensively discussed by many writers. When blues first reached a large audience it was through the 'Race records' issued specifically for black purchasers in the 1920s. In this innovatory new book the celebrated writer on the blues, Paul Oliver, rediscovers the wealth of neglected vocal traditions issued on Race records.
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