Virginia Traditions - Virginia Work Songs

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Release Date: 1983

Label: BRI Records

The work-related singing of watermen, factory workers, crab pickers, and gandy dancers.

Produced by The Blue Ridge Institute, Ferrum College, Ferrum, Virginia, under National Endowment of the Arts/Folk Arts Grant No. R80-54-242.
Remastered at Starr Recording, Inc., Philadelphia, PA.

36 pp. booklet included with extensive liner notes, photos and texts.

Recorded in Virginia, USA, except A7 & A8 :
A1 to A3, A5, A6 : Virginia State Penitentiary, Richmond, May 1936.
A4 : Powhatan State Farm, State Farm, June 14, 1936.
A7 : off the coast of Wildwood, N.J., 1955.
A8 : off the coast of Crab Island, N.J., August 8, 1950.
A9, B1 : Weems, April 1980.
B2 : Rappahannock Oyster Company, Bluff Point, November 5, 1980.
B3 : Colonna's shipyard, Norfolk, April 12, 1980.
B4 : Norfolk, November 14, 1980.
B5 : Colonna's shipyard, Norfolk, November 16,1980.
B6 : Marshall Seafood Company, Glass, February 28, 1980.
B7 : C.C. Conway Seafood, Wicomico, November 15, 1979.
B8 : Marshall Seafood Company, Glass, July 13, 1979.