1939 is a remixed collection of recordings made in 1939 or shortly thereafter. All original recordings are the property of the Association for Cultural equity and are used with permission. Many of the vocals on this project were recorded by John and Ruby Lomax in their 1939 Southern States Recording Trip. Other material was recorded by Alan Lomax, S. C. Loop, John Wesley Work III, Lewis Jones, and Willis Laurence James. A number of recordings are the work of Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin and are part of American Memory’s Voices from the Dust Bowl: Migrant Worker Collection. I am deeply indebted to all these great ethnomusicologists as well as the original singers who generously allowed their voices to be recorded for posterity over 70 years ago. I am equally indebted to the Association for Cultural Equity for their help with this project. The following is a list of vocals that appear on this compilation. All of the original a cappella tracks are available on the Library of Congress’s American Memory site. 1) It Ain’t Gonna Rain No More George Vinton Graham, vocals and guitar. Interview from the Dust Bowl series. Mr. Nichols: “The Latest Song Hit” 2) Lullaby “Cap’n I’ll Hide You” Henry Truvillion • “Sweet Babe O’ Mine” Margie Maltox 3) All the Best Friends I Had “All de Friend I Had Dead an’ Gone” Aunt Mollie (Mary) MacDonald “I’m Gonna Make You Happy” Buster Brown 4) Please Drive Me Home “Got a Woman Up the Bayou” Ross “Po Chance” Williams “Milk Cow Blues” Clarence “Bill Ted” Green • “Interview about Oklahoma” Mrs. Flora Robertson 5) Hug em in Sebring “Hug em in Sebring” Bill Shoemaker 6) Raise the Window “Dying Girls Message” Rosetta Spainhard • “Awful Death” Vera Hall 7) Carrie “Carrie” Vera Hall 8) Tea and Tobacco “Hard Luck Okie” Roy Turner 9) Ain’t Nothing but Trouble Interview with Isom Moseley • Interview with Roy “Slim” Phillips 10) You Gots to Move Vocals by Diane Westbrook 11) Arizona Interview with Wayne “Gene” Dinwiddie 12) Travellin’ Shoes “Got on my Travellin’ Shoes” Spiritual Four Quarter • “Desert Blues” Hattie Ellis 13) Pretty Molly “Pretty Molly” Pauline Ramsay • Additional vocals by Susan Vinski 14) 1939 “Interview about life in Government Camp” Mr. J. W. Becker 15) I Smell Victory Interview with Man on Street • “Itisket-Itasket” Group of girls from Liberty High School 16) I Got Worries Vocals by Alex Coulter