Virginia Traditions - Virginia Work Songs

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Release Date: 1998

Label: Global Village Music

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

Originally issued on LP on BRI Records BRI 007, in 1983 (BRI Records issued by the Blue Ridge Institute of Ferrum College, Ferrum, Virginia).

"...a 40 pp. booklet containing performer biographies, numerous photographs, and an extensive essay is available from the Blue Ridge Institute of Ferrum College."

Recorded in Virginia, USA, except tracks 7 & 8 :
Tracks 1 to 3, A5, A6 : Virginia State Penitentiary, Richmond, May 1936.
Track 4 : Powhatan State Farm, State Farm, June 14, 1936.
Track 7 : off the coast of Wildwood, N.J., 1955.
Track 8 : off the coast of Crab Island, N.J., August 8, 1950.
Tracks 9 & 10 : Weems, April 1980.
Track 11 : Rappahannock Oyster Company, Bluff point, November 5, 1980.
Track 12 : Colonna's shipyard, Norfolk, April 12, 1980.
Track 13 : Norfolk, November 14, 1980.
Track 14 : Colonna's shipyard, Norfolk, November 16,1980.
Track 15 : Marshall Seafood Company, Glass, February 28, 1980.
Track 16 : C.C. Conway Seafood, Wicomico, November 15, 1979.
Track 17 : Marshall Seafood Company, Glass, July 13, 1979.

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