Description
Based on four years of fieldwork throughout the state, the Florida Folklife Program released the two-album, 27-track LP Drop on Down in Florida: Recent Field Recordings of Afro-American Traditional Music in 1981. The album was intended to highlight African American music traditions for a statewide public audience, blues and sacred traditions in particular. Dust-to-Digital reissued this 2 LP set on CD in November 2012. The recordings include: one-string musician Moses Williams four-shape-note Sacred Harp singing from an African American community the Richard Williams family in the blues and gospel-blues traditions 2 LPs, 24-page 11”x11” booklet, gatefold sleeve, 18 photographs and illustrations;