Como III 9/59

September 22, 1959 to September 25, 1959
Como, Panola County, Mississippi, United States
Blues and religious material performed by Fred McDowell, with occasional vocal accompaniment by his wife Annie Mae McDowell and friend James Shorty, and several pieces by guitarist-singer Rosa Lee Hill. (We have combined several days' worth of recordings at the McDowell home into this single session. (NB: Lomax and Collins gave these tapes shelf numbers after the fact, thus the inconsistency between them and the recording chronology. Adding to the dating confusion is that on the tape box of T887, Shirley identified the date as "September 22, Wednesday," but the 22nd was a Tuesday.)

Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning (instrumental)

Worried Mind Blues

61 Highway Blues

Unidentified song fragment

Motherless Children

Lord Have Mercy

You Done Told Everybody In The Neighborhood

Move Up

I Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind On Jesus)

Soon One Morning

Talk/ambience

Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning

Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed

Wished I Was In Heaven Sitting Down (false start)

Wished I Was In Heaven Sitting Down (I)

Talk/ambience

Wished I Was In Heaven Sitting Down (II)

When The Train Comes Along

Rolled And Tumbled

Germany Blues

Talk/ambience

Good Morning Little Schoolgirl

Blues (You're Gonna Be Sorry)

Oree

Freight Train Blues

Bullying Well

My Mother Died And Left Me

I Want Jesus To Walk With Me (I)

I Want Jesus To Walk With Me (false start)

I Want Jesus To Walk With Me (II)

I Want Jesus To Walk With Me (III)

I Want Jesus To Walk With Me (false start)

I Want Jesus To Walk With Me (IV)

Faro

Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning (III)

What's The Matter Now?

Worried Mind Blues

I Been Drinkin' Water Out Of A Hollow Log

Fred McDowell (with guitar) and wife on their porch

Fred McDowell (with guitar) and wife on their porch

Fred McDowell (with guitar) and wife on their porch

Fred McDowell (with guitar) on his porch

Fred McDowell (with guitar) on his porch

Rosa Lee Hill (with guitar) and her sister Sidney Hemphill on Fred McDowell's porch

Rosa Lee Hill (with guitar) on Fred McDowell's porch

Rosa Lee Hill (with guitar) on Fred McDowell's porch

Rosa Lee Hill (with guitar) and her sister Sidney Hemphill on Fred McDowell's porch

Rosa Lee Hill (with guitar) and her sister Sidney Hemphill on Fred McDowell's porch

Rosa Lee Hill (with guitar) on Fred McDowell's porch

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