Tuesday, September 27, 2005

When I Lay My Burdens Down

Blind Roosevelt Graves recorded this traditional spiritual in 1929 backed with an incredibly hot band that included his brother Aaron.
  • Blind Roosevelt Graves - When I Lay My Burdens Down
All Graves' stuff - his spirituals, his blues and the hokum sides he recorded as the Mississippi Jook Band - is top-knotch. It's all available on Document, of course.

posted by Rob Hutten at 10:24 AM  

1 Comments:

Kurt G. said...

Long Sought Home blows me away, as usual. I know this song from Harry Smith's anthology, The Anthology of American Folk Music -- somebody named The Elders McIntorsh and Edwards' Sanctified Singers, who also did a song about the 1927 Mississippi flood. Their version is a little more wild and wooly than this, but both are fantastic. I especially love the way the harmony is recorded louder than the melody in Graves's version -- the rough edges are always the best part. The melody, of course, is about the same as the Carter Family's "Will The Circle Be Unbroken." Thank you, as always, LSH.

11:45 PM  

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