Abner Jay – 4 albums

Artist: Abner Jay
Albums: The Backbone Of America Is A Mule And Cotton / One Man Band / True Story Of Abner Jay / The Original Folk Song Style Of Abner Jay
Released: 197? / 2003 / 2009 / 2010
Quality: mp3 CBR 160 /192 / FLAC / 320 /
Size: 53 / 78 / 184 / 78 MB

"Describing himself as "the last great Southern black minstrel show", Abner Jay was a travelling one-man band and revenant folk spirit who performed lugubrious versions of original blues, traditional American spirituals alongside his own material in a baritone several leagues below Johnny Cash. By slowing his source material to a laggard, awkward lollop, Jay rescued it from decades of blacked-up virtuoso mimicry, refocusing attention on its ragged edges, emotional depth and complex humanity. Jay joined Silas Greens Minstrels in 1932 on the back of a huge repertoire of banjo and old-time songs learnt from his grandfather, who had been a slave in Washington County, Georgia. He went on to lead the WMAZ Minstrels on Macon radio from 1946-56 before going solo and touring the country in his portable 'log cabin', complete with its own PA system, from where he would perform and sell cassettes and LPs, when not in residence at Tom Flynn's Plantation Restaurant in Stone Mountain, Georgia. Jay died in 1993 and since then his LPs have become almost impossible to track down. Anthony Braxton described Jay as an "American master" and his banjo, guitar and harmonica playing is every bit as idiosyncratic and unmediated by the tyranny of 'correct' technique as Braxton's own. And the tongues given voice to here are drawn from deep within the murk of centuries," David Keenan, Great Lost Recordings, The Wire, October 2003.





The Backbone Of America Is A Mule And Cotton


Released: 197?
Quality: mp3 CBR 160
Size: 53 MB

Tracklist:
1.) The Backbone Of America Is A Mule And Cotton (Abner Jay) - 4:00
2.) My Old Kentucky Home - 5:00
3.) Oh Susanna - 1:30
4.) Camp Town Races - 1:30
5.) Old Folks At Home - 5:00
6.) Old Black Joe - 5:00
7.) Amazing Grace - 8:30
8.) Old Rugged Cross - 3:30
9.) Steal Away - 2:00
10.) Deep River - - 2:00
11.) Them Golden Slippers - 3:00
12.) How Great Thou Art - 3:30

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One Man Band


Released: 2003
Quality: mp3 CBR 192
Size: 78 MB

Tracklist:
01 - Woke Up This Morning (3:12)
02 - Bring It When You Come (3:27)
03 - Cocaine Blues (6:41)
04 - I’m So Depressed (3:56)
05 - Vietnam (4:05)
06 - VD (2:17)
07 - I’m A Hard Working Man (2:25)
08 - Wee Wee (2:57)
09 - I Wanna Job (4:16)
10 - Don’t Mess With Me Baby (5:22)
11 - Royal Palm (6:46)
12 - Cocaine (6:25)
13 - Swaunee (3:32)

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The True Story of Abner Jay


Released: 2009
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Size: 184 MB

Tracklist:
1. I'm So Depressed
2. Cocaine
3. Vietnam
4. St James Infirmiry Blues
5. Celo
6. Woke Up This Morning
7. My Mule
8. Ol Man River
9. Don't Mess With My Baby
10. I Am Georgia Bound
11. The Reason Young People Use Drugs

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Folk Song Stylist



Released: 2010
Quality: mp3 CBR 320
Size: 78 MB

Tracklist:
1. Depression
2. Lord Randall
3. I Wanna Job
4. St. James Infirmary
5. I'm Georgia Bound
6. Bring It With You When You Come
7. The Thresher
8. Cotton Fields
9. Starving To Death on My Governemnt Claim
10. Shenandoah
11. 99 Years in Jail
12. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot