Good Morning Little School Girl, by Mississippi Fred McDowell

Good Morning Little School Girl

by Mississippi Fred McDowell

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1.	Good Morning Little Schoolgirl 03:21	buy track
2.	Little Girl, Little Girl, How Old Are You 02:59	buy track
3.	Fred's Rambling Blues 04:46	buy track
4.	Don't Look For Me On A Sunday 06:59	buy track
5.	I Walked All The Way From East St. Louis 04:20	buy track
6.	Red Cross Store Blues 03:05	buy track
7.	Gravel Road Blues 05:02	buy track
8.	Where Were You When The Rooster Crowed 'Fore Day 03:35	buy track
9.	Drop Down Mama 02:54	buy track
10.	I Looked At The Sun 03:23	buy track
11.	Early This Morning (Write Me A Few Of Your Lines) 03:24	buy track
12.	Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning 02:53	buy track
13.	Get Right Church 02:29	buy track
14.	I'm Going Over The Hill 02:42	buy track
15.	Amazing Grace 03:32	buy track
16.	I Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down 01:45	buy track
17.	You Gotta Move 03:46	buy track
18.	It's A Blessing 02:46	buy track
19.	Bye And Bye 03:03	buy track
20.	I'm So Glad, Got Good Religion 04:27	buy track
21.	Look Way Down That Lonesome Road 03:29	buy track
22.	When The Saints Go Marching In 02:19	buy track

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The Mississippi hill country is the Delta’s tobacco-spitting, one-eye-missing, hard-luck cousin. Distinct in style from the more popular Delta blues of Robert Johnson, hill country blues is characterized by an emphasis on rhythm and percussive guitar. Mississippi Fred McDowell’s weathered voice soars over the hypnotic, droning groove of his bottleneck slide guitar. On several tracks his wife, Annie Mae, joins in, contributing her hoarse, high wail to the driving force of the spirituals. Standards like “Amazing Grace” and the titular “Good Morning Little School Girl” are transformed into haunting, elemental dirges. McDowell does not play rock ʼn’ roll, but the spirit is rollicking in this compilation of spirituals and blues.

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released January 1, 1994

1994, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Originally released on Arhoolie Records.

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