J.B. Smith No More Good Time in the World for Me (2-CD)

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(2015/Dust To Digital) 18 tracks. In 1965 and 1966 Bruce Jackson visited Ramsey State Farm in... more

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J.B. Smith: No More Good Time in the World for Me (2-CD)

(2015/Dust To Digital) 18 tracks. In 1965 and 1966 Bruce Jackson visited Ramsey State Farm in Rosharon, Texas, where he recorded the remarkable epic songs of Johnnie B. Smith, a prisoner-composer doing a 45-year bid for the murder of his wife. Three of the recordings included on this two-disc set appeared on Ever Since I Have Been A Man Full Grown, an LP produced by John Fahey's Takoma Records in 1965. The other 15 -- traditional work songs and J.B.'s original pieces -- are issued for the first time. Folklorist Bruce Jackson was among the last to record work songs. He met Smith, prisoner #130196, during a 1964 visit to Ramsey State Farm. A native of Hearne, Texas, Smith was 46 years old and on his fourth prison term. In his younger days, Smith toted lead hoe in a flat-weeding gang and led the work songs. But he also sang other songs, different songs -- those he'd made up to occupy himself while chopping sugarcane or picking cotton. He referred to them as his 'little ol' songs.' The longest stretched to 33 verses, or more than 22 recorded minutes. Although Smith knew and sang a variety of melodies, to an assortment of work songs and sacred pieces, he employed only one tune for his compositions. What changed were the tempo and the ornamentation with which he individualized them. 'The Major Special,' 'No More Good Time in the World for Me' 'Ever Since I Been a Man Full Grown' -- each song Smith charged with it's own emotional ambience, as a seasoned preacher intuits the particular colors and atmospheres that should imbue each portion of his service. Smith was paroled in 1967, a year after his final session with Jackson. That summer, Jackson arranged for him to sing at the Newport Folk Festival, at which he appeared on stage with Pete Seeger, and, in one of the only photos that survives of him, in the company of Robert Pete Williams and Muddy Waters. No More Good Time in the World for Me includes 18 remastered recordings, 15 of which are previously unreleased, and is presented in a digipak with a 36-page booklet containing liner notes by Nathan Salsburg (curator of the Alan Lomax Archive), full lyric transcriptions, and never-before-published photographs of J.B. Smith.

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Interpret: J.B. Smith
Album titlle: No More Good Time in the World for Me (2-CD)
Genre Blues
Label DUST TO DIGITAL
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0880226004125
weight in Kg 0.15

Smith, J.B. - No More Good Time in the World for Me (2-CD) CD 1
01	No More Good Time In the World For Me	J.B. Smith
02	Watching My Timber	J.B. Smith
03	Drop 'Em Down Together	J.B. Smith
04	I Got Too Much Time For the Crime I Done	J.B. Smith
05	They Can’t Do That (Toast)	J.B. Smith
06	I Heard the Reports of a Pistol	J.B. Smith
07	Drinking That Wine	J.B. Smith
08	Ever Since I Been a Man Full Grown	J.B. Smith

Smith, J.B. - No More Good Time in the World for Me (2-CD) CD 2
01	Sure Make a Man Feel Bad	J.B. Smith
02	Tried By Fire	J.B. Smith
03	Woman Trouble	J.B. Smith
04	On Composition (Spoken)	J.B. Smith
05	The Major Special	J.B. Smith
06	No Payday Here	J.B. Smith
07	At the Cross	J.B. Smith
08	Poor Boy, Number Two	J.B. Smith
09	On Getting out (Spoken)	J.B. Smith
10	Go Ahead	J.B. Smith