{"product_id":"playing-for-the-man-at-the-door-field-recordings-from-the-collection-of-mack-mccormick-1958-1971-3-cds","title":"PLAYING FOR THE MAN AT THE DOOR - Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick, 1958–1971 (3 CDS)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/officialaboutthisrecordingsept2022_72b2a014-0589-48d0-a733-fdb7eb398db9_480x480.png?v=1691936870\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHear sound samples via Spotify:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"352\" width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/1tyeNhcpXkP9kb4c3SOJt6?utm_source=generator\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the 1950s and 60s, the blues was the dominant form of Black vernacular music throughout Texas and the surrounding areas. In segregated neighborhoods, community members gathered in saloons, dancehalls, and each other’s homes to hear their neighbors sing their stories of sorrow, heartbreak, jubilation, and triumph. Robert “Mack” McCormick, an academically untrained but fanatical devotee of the blues, stepped into this world and became one of its most devout advocates and documentarians. By photographing Black and Latino Texans and their neighborhoods, as well as recording and interviewing musicians—many of whom never stepped foot into a proper recording studio—McCormick endeared and eventually embedded himself into these communities. By the time he died in 2015, McCormick had amassed a collection of 590 reels of sound recordings and 165 boxes of manuscripts, original interviews and research notes, thousands of photographs and negatives, playbills, and posters. Because McCormick never published or released most of these materials, his collection became a thing of legend and intense speculation among scholars, blues aficionados, and musicians alike.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePlaying for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick, 1958–1971 is the first compilation of music drawn from this fabled collection, which indelibly documents a pivotal moment in African American history. It features never-before-heard performances not only from musicians who became icons in their own right—including Lightnin’ Hopkins and Mance Lipscomb—but also, crucially, performers whose names may be unfamiliar to even the most devoted blues fans and scholars. Newly mastered recordings and accompanying photographs bring to life many of these forgotten figures: offering insight into their lives and illuminating in new, enlightening ways their joys and anguish, deep social connections, distinctive voices, and cultural networks. The collection spans gospels, ragtime, country blues dirges, the unclassifiable music of George “Bongo Joe” Coleman, and more, showing that no community, no matter how tight knit, is monolithic.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAccompanying the music is a 128-page book, which contains breathtaking photographs by McCormick and his associates, as well as contextual essays by producers Jeff Place and John Troutman on McCormick’s life, and by musicians Mark Puryear and Dom Flemons on some of the marginalized communities throughout “Greater Texas” to which McCormick devoted his life’s work. This release is a partnership with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg data-mce-fragment=\"1\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/officialTRACKLISTINGWITHWORLD_463c0ead-3c80-4419-b43a-e811f74924c1_480x480.png?v=1691936860\" data-mce-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/officialTRACKLISTINGWITHWORLD_463c0ead-3c80-4419-b43a-e811f74924c1_480x480.png?v=1691936860\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1\u003cbr\u003eMojo Hand Lightnin' Hopkins 04:03 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2\u003cbr\u003eGod Moves on the Water Mance Lipscomb 02:33 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3\u003cbr\u003eThe Clinton Robert Shaw 02:18 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4\u003cbr\u003eSugar Blues Kid Wiggins 02:44 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5\u003cbr\u003eSt. James Infirmary Dudley Alexander and Washboard Band 04:16 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6\u003cbr\u003eDarlin' (You Know I Love You) Cedell Davis 02:55 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7\u003cbr\u003eYou Gonna Look Like a Monkey Dennis Gainus 02:25 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8\u003cbr\u003eOne Room Country Shack Grey Ghost 03:42 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9\u003cbr\u003eGroceries on My Shelf (Piggly Wiggly) Edwin \"Buster\" Pickens 04:26 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10\u003cbr\u003e3 O'Clock Blues Hop Wilson 04:52 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11\u003cbr\u003eAnything from a Foot Race to a Resting Place Jealous James Stanchell 03:11 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e12\u003cbr\u003eSalty Dog Rag James Tisdom 03:18 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e13\u003cbr\u003eGoin' to the River Gozy Kilpatrick 01:35 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e14\u003cbr\u003eQuills Joe Patterson 01:14 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e15\u003cbr\u003eMa Pa Cut the Cake Lightnin' Hopkins 01:42 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e16\u003cbr\u003eCrazy About Oklahoma Otis Cook 03:12 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e17\u003cbr\u003eLittle Red Rooster Grey Ghost 03:51 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e18\u003cbr\u003eMy Work Will Be Done The Spiritual Light Gospel Group 03:00 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e19\u003cbr\u003eSteel Guitar Rag James Tisdom 01:42 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e20\u003cbr\u003eTall Angel at the Bar Mance Lipscomb 03:02 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e21\u003cbr\u003eThis Whole World's in a Sad Condition George \"Bongo Joe\" Coleman 08:59 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e22\u003cbr\u003eWorld's in a Tangle Lightnin' Hopkins 05:51 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e23\u003cbr\u003eSomeday Baby Robert Shaw 05:39 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e24\u003cbr\u003eIt's Alright CeDell Davis 03:36 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e25\u003cbr\u003eCryin' Won't Make Me Stay R.C. Forest and Gozy Kilpatrick 01:54 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e26\u003cbr\u003eChina Tea Allen Van 02:31 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e27\u003cbr\u003ePut Your Money Where Your Mouth Is George \"Bongo Joe\" Coleman 03:24 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e28\u003cbr\u003eTom Moore's Farm Lightnin' Hopkins 04:34 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e29\u003cbr\u003eTom Moore's Farm Mance Lipscomb 04:56 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e30\u003cbr\u003eDon't Do Me No Small Favors (Help the Bear) Jealous James Stanchell 01:37 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e31\u003cbr\u003eFox Chase Billy Bizor 02:20 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e32\u003cbr\u003eBlack Widow Spider Blues R.C. 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