Bessie Jones with the Georgia Sea Island Singers
Get In Union: Recordings by Alan Lomax 1959-1966
Tompkins Square
This double-disc has been pulled together from some 50 hours of tape that Alan Lomax recorded. Bessie Jones was raised in Georgia on the mainland, she moved to the islands (St. Simons Island) and soaked up the Caribbean influence inherent withi…
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