Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris

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This box set includes a 120-page book and 3 CDs featuring blues, gospel, interviews, storytelling, and documentary films from William Ferris, a renowned recordist, filmmaker,...

This box set includes a 120-page book and 3 CDs featuring blues, gospel, interviews, storytelling, and documentary films from William Ferris, a renowned recordist, filmmaker, and folklorist from the American South. It also includes a download/streaming code and signed copies are available for purchase. This collection is a culmination of Ferris's life's work and has been highly esteemed, earning two Grammy Awards.

1. James “Son Ford” Thomas – “44 Blues”
2. Lovey Williams – “I Feel So Good”
3. Wallace “Pine-Top” Johnson, Maudie Shirley, and Jasper Love – “Stackalee and Billy Lyons”
4. Scott Dunbar – “Lil’ Liza Jane”
5. Mississippi Fred McDowell – “Big Fat Mama”
6. Louis Dotson – “Bottle Blowing”
7. Sonny Boy Watson – “Bring Me My Shotgun”
8. Sam Myers – “Eyesight to the Blind”
9. James “Son Ford” Thomas – “Cairo”
10. Scott Dunbar – “Jaybird”
11. Tom Dumas – “Cotton Eyed Joe”
12. Lovey Williams – “Coal Black Mare”
13. Unidentified Musician with Mississippi Fred McDowell – “I Dreamed I Went to the U.N.”
14. Walter Lee Hood – “Darling If You Must Leave”
15. Mississippi Fred McDowell – “I Got a Letter from Hot Springs”
16. Wallace “Pine-Top” Johnson, Maudie Shirley, and Jasper Love – “Baby Loves to Boogie”
17. Wash Heron and “Big” Jack Johnson – “Nothing”
18. James “Son Ford” Thomas – “Dust My Broom”
19. Scott Dunbar – “The Memphis Mail”
20. Sonny Boy Watson – “Have You Seen My Baby”
21. James Hughes – “Instrumental Guitar Piece in A”
22. Lovey Williams – “Train I Ride”
23. Unidentified Musician with Mississippi Fred McDowell – “Little Red Rooster”
24. Leland Musician – “Darlin’ Why You Treat Me So?”
25. Inmates at Parchman Farm – “Water Boy Drowned in the Mobile Bay”
26. George Lee “Sun Bud” Spears – “I Ain’t Gonna Live It No More”
27. James “Son Ford” Thomas with Sonny Boy Watson – “I Cannot Stay Here Baby”
28. Mary and Amanda Gordon – “Lord, I’m in Your Hand”
29. The Southland Hummingbirds – “You Don’t Know Like I Know”
30. Lovey Williams – “I’m Standing in the Safety Zone”
31. Reverend Smith and Family – “Children, Go Where I Send Thee”
32. Liddle Hines – “What Could I Do?”
33. Providence Missionary Baptist Church – “So Glad I Got Good Religion”
34. Church of God in Christ – “I Know the Lord Will Make a Way (Yes He Will)”
35. Walter Lee Hood and Parchman Inmates – “Home on High”
36. Fannie Bell Chapman – “We’re So Glad To Be Here”
37. Mary Alice and Alan Mcgowan – “My Mother’s on that Train”
38. Reverend Ott and Family – “You Don’t Knock, You Just Walk On In”
39. Walter Lee Hood – “They Tell Me of an Uncloudy Day”
40. Rose Hill Church – “Thanks for Bill Ferris”
41. Rose Hill Church – “Over Yonder Where the Sun Will Never Shine”
42. The Southland Hummingbirds – “I’ve Been Born Again”
43. Lovey Williams and Family – “The Lord Will Make a Way Somehow”
44. Providence Missionary Baptist Church – “How Did You Feel When You Come Out of the Wilderness”
45. Church of God in Christ – “I Don’t Have to Worry About Where I Spend Eternity”
46. Fannie Bell Chapman and Family – “He’s My Rock, My Sword, and Shield”
47. Walter Lee Hood and Parchman Inmates – “Thank You Jesus”
48. Mary and Amanda Gordon – “Cross of Calvary”
49. Church of God in Christ – “My Grave’s Gonna Be Decorated on that Day”
50. The Southland Hummingbirds – “There Are Days”
51. Church of God in Christ – “You Can’t Hide Sinner”
52. Reverend Isaac Thomas and Rose Hill Church – “Lord, Remember Me”
53. Church of God in Christ – “Glory, Glory (Lay My Burden Down)”
54. Barry Hannah – “On Bill”
55. Alice Walker – “Regions of the Mind and Heart”
56. Alex Haley – “The South”
57. Ray Lum – “A Trader Is”
58. Bobby Rush – “The Blues to Me”
59. Barry Hannah - On Son Thomas and Tradition
60. James “Son Ford” Thomas – “I Know It’s Wrong to Be Playin’ the Blues”
61. Sonny Boy Watson – “Jitterbug Comes to Town”
62. James “Son Ford” Thomas – “You Whistlin’”
63. Joe "Skeet" Skillet – “Mule Toast and Pool Hall Toast”
64. Joe Cooper – “The Preacher”
65. Wallace “Pine-Top” Johnson, Jasper Love, and Maudie Shirley – “Lyin’”
66. Shelby “Poppa Jazz” Brown – “Two Brothers, Heaven and Hell”
67. Shelby “Poppa Jazz” Brown – “Creekman Killed Charlie Kirkland”
68. B.B. King – “Lucille”
69. Allen Ginsberg, James “Son Ford” Thomas, and Bill Ferris – “On Blues Composition”
70. Robert Penn Warren – “The Decline in Human Values”
71. Pecolia Warner – “The Bible Salesman”
72. Ray Lum – “Fast Traders Disguising Mules”
73. Ray Lum – “Horses Too Tall To Drown”
74. Ray Lum – “The Ark and the Cats”
75. Ray Lum – “The Panther”
76. Victor Bobb – “Fixing Charles Lindbergh’s Engine”
77. Barry Hannah - Lying About Being from Mississippi
78. Pete Seeger – “We Shall Overcome”
79. James “Son Ford” Thomas – “Cemetery Conversations”

Catalog Number DTD-53

Release Date

Artist(s)

Recording Era(s)

  • 1966-1980

Number of Tracks

Page Count

Label(s) / Partner(s) Dust-to-Digital

Producer(s) William Ferris, April Ledbetter, Steven Lance Ledbetter

Audio Engineer(s) Michael Graves

Designer(s) Barbara Bersche

Writer(s)

Additional Information

  • USA

  • English

  • Blues
  • Gospel
  • Interviews
  • Storytelling