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Good Morning Little School Girl

by Mississippi Fred McDowell

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

A slide guitarist of singular power & uncommon elegance, Mississippi Fred McDowell is a master of North Mississippi Hill Country Blues who mentored R. L. Burnside & inspired Bonnie Raitt.

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