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| Polk Miller and His Old South Quartette | 
 enlarge | Artist: Polk Miller
Label: Tompkins Square
Category: Music
List Price: $14.98
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Sales Rank: 23880
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.8 x 0.2
MPN: 2028
UPC: 894807002028
EAN: 0894807002028
ASIN: B001E7XFZU
Release Date: September 23, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | The Bonnie Blue Flag | | • | The Laughing Song | | • | What a Time | | • | The Watermelon Party | | • | Rise and Shine | | • | The "Old Time" Religion | | • | Jerusalem Mournin' | | • | Oh What He's Done for Me | | • | Watermillion Party | | • | Bohunkus and Josephus | | • | Oysters and Wine at 2 A.M. | | • | Pussy Cat Rag | | • | When de Corn Pone's Hot | | • | No Hiding Place Down Here |
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Album Description
Polk Miller was born James A. Miller, near Burkeville, in Prince Edward County, Virginia on August 2, 1844. He picked up the banjo early on and grew up learning the music of the slave quarters on a large Virginia plantation. In 1892, he created a traveling show, "The Old Virginia Plantation Negro," including banjo tunes, nostalgic dialect stories and a lecture, without resorting to farce or black-face. The show glorified the plantation music and Negro spirituals that America was hungry for in the 'Gay '90s.' Mark Twain, upon hearing Miller and his Quartette exclaimed, "I think that Polk Miller, and his wonderful four, is about the only thing this country can furnish that is originally and utterly American." It is in this historical context that Tompkins Square reissues a CD of seven 1909 Edison cylinder records and seven 1928 QRS/Broadway disc recordings. The booklet includes photos and memorabilia with notes by African-American music scholar Doug Seroff. The CD package is designed by multiple Grammy Award nominee Susan Archie. Tompkins Square has also released `People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs, 1913-1938', which received a Grammy nomination for Best Historical Album.
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