Name: Country Negro Jam Sassion / Various
Brand: Arhoolie Records
SKU: 446576
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Country Negro Jam Sassion / Various

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Album: Country Negro Jam Sassion / Various
#	Song Title	Time
1)	44 Blues - Willie B. Thomas/Butch Cage
2)	Mississippi Heavy Water Blues - Robert Welch/Robert Pete Williams/Robert "Guitar" J. Welch
3)	Smokestack Lightning - Clarence Edwards/Cornelius Edwards/Butch Cage
4)	Who Broke the Lock? - Willie B. Thomas/Butch Cage
5)	You Don't Love Me - Clarence Edwards/Cornelius Edwards/Butch Cage
6)	It's the Sign of the Judgement - Willie B. Thomas/Butch Cage
7)	Fox Hunt - Ben Douglas
8)	Your Dice Won't Pass - Hillary Blunt/Sally Dotson/Smoky Babe
9)	Jelly Roll - Willie B. Thomas/Butch Cage
10)	I've Got Religion - Rebecca Smith/Ruth Miller/Tom Miller
11)	Going Downtown Boogie - Smoky Babe
12)	Stack O' Dollars - Clarence Edwards/Cornelius Edwards/Butch Cage
13)	Brown Skin Woman - Martha Thomas/Willie B. Thomas/Butch Cage/Martha Thomas
14)	I Won't Be Your Low-Down Dog No More - Lucius Bridges/Leon Strickland/Lezlie Anders/Leslie Anders
15)	Piano Blues, The - Willie B. Thomas/Butch Cage (previously unreleased)
16)	Cottonfield Blues - Smoky Babe (previously unreleased)
17)	Farm Blues, The - Otis Webster (previously unreleased)
18)	Boss Man Blues, The - Otis Webster (previously unreleased)
19)	Whoa Mule - Willie B. Thomas/Butch Cage (previously unreleased)
20)	Boll Weevil Blues - Otis Webster (previously unreleased)
21)	Thousand Miles from Nowhere - Clarence Edwards/Cornelius Edwards/Butch Cage (previously unreleased)
22)	Dead and Gone - Willie B. Thomas/Butch Cage (previously unreleased)
23)	Called for You Yesterday - Willie B. Thomas/Butch Cage (previously unreleased)
24)	Me and My Chauffeur Blues - Willie B. Thomas/Butch Cage (previously unreleased)
25)	Baby Please Don't Go - Willie B. Thomas/Butch Cage (previously unreleased)

Album: Country Negro Jam Sassion / Various
#	Song Title	Time
1)	44 Blues - Willie B. Thomas/Butch Cage
2)	Mississippi Heavy Water Blues - Robert Welch/Robert Pete Williams/Robert "Guitar" J. Welch
3)	Smokestack Lightning - Clarence Edwards/Cornelius Edwards/Butch Cage
4)	Who Broke the Lock? - Willie B. Thomas/Butch Cage
5)	You Don't Love Me - Clarence Edwards/Cornelius Edwards/Butch Cage
6)	It's the Sign of the Judgement - Willie B. Thomas/Butch Cage
7)	Fox Hunt - Ben Douglas
8)	Your Dice Won't Pass - Hillary Blunt/Sally Dotson/Smoky Babe
9)	Jelly Roll - Willie B. Thomas/Butch Cage
10)	I've Got Religion - Rebecca Smith/Ruth Miller/Tom Miller
11)	Going Downtown Boogie - Smoky Babe
12)	Stack O' Dollars - Clarence Edwards/Cornelius Edwards/Butch Cage
13)	Brown Skin Woman - Martha Thomas/Willie B. Thomas/Butch Cage/Martha Thomas
14)	I Won't Be Your Low-Down Dog No More - Lucius Bridges/Leon Strickland/Lezlie Anders/Leslie Anders
15)	Piano Blues, The - Willie B. Thomas/Butch Cage (previously unreleased)
16)	Cottonfield Blues - Smoky Babe (previously unreleased)
17)	Farm Blues, The - Otis Webster (previously unreleased)
18)	Boss Man Blues, The - Otis Webster (previously unreleased)
19)	Whoa Mule - Willie B. Thomas/Butch Cage (previously unreleased)
20)	Boll Weevil Blues - Otis Webster (previously unreleased)
21)	Thousand Miles from Nowhere - Clarence Edwards/Cornelius Edwards/Butch Cage (previously unreleased)
22)	Dead and Gone - Willie B. Thomas/Butch Cage (previously unreleased)
23)	Called for You Yesterday - Willie B. Thomas/Butch Cage (previously unreleased)
24)	Me and My Chauffeur Blues - Willie B. Thomas/Butch Cage (previously unreleased)
25)	Baby Please Don't Go - Willie B. Thomas/Butch Cage (previously unreleased)

Performer Notes

Engineers: Dr. Harry Oster, Chris Strachwitz, Paul Oliver.
Recorded in Louisiana and Mississippi between 1959-1962. Includes liner notes by Chris Strachwitz.
Personnel: Clarence Edwards, Robert Smoky Babe Brown, Leon Strickland, Otis Webster, Robert Pete Williams, Willie B. Thomas, Willie Thomas (vocals, guitar); Butch Cage (vocals, fiddle, flute); Rebecca Smith, Ruth Miller, Sally Dotson, Tom Miller, Ben Douglas (vocals); Cornelius Edwards, Hillary Blunt, Robert Welch (guitar); Lucius Bridges (washboard); Martha Thomas (tom tom).
Liner Note Author: Chris Strachwitz.
Recording information: Louisiana.
Photographer: Chris Strachwitz.
The remarkable Country Negro Jam Session assembles home recordings of southwest Lousiana-based blues singers collected during the late 1950s and 1960s by musicologist Dr. Harry Oster. Fourteen cuts by country fiddler Butch Cage make up the guts of the album, but the real highlights are the grim performances by Robert Pete Williams, who was serving a murder sentence at the notorious Angola State Prison at the time his tracks were recorded; equally powerful is a rendition of "Foxhunt" performed by a group of therapy patients. Despite its somewhat misleading title, a truly landmark recording. ~ Jason Ankeny