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Brother John Sellers: Big Boat Up the River - COMPACT DISCS

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Management number 205747867 Release Date 2025/10/22 List Price $71.10 Model Number 205747867
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Title: Big Boat Up the River
Artist: Brother John Sellers
Label: Monitor Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 731807150529
Genre: Blues
Release Date: 2012-05-30
Number of Discs: 1

Blues and gospel singer John Sellers (following the custom of his church, he was known as "Brother John") performs 12 soulful tracks on this 1959 Monitor release. Discovered by gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, Sellers moved to Chicago from Clarksdale, Mississippi, when he was just 9 years old. Later he played secular music, became involved in the folk revival scene in Greenwich Village, and was long associated with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. No liners notes are available on this album. This title was also released on CD as MON06002.

Tracks:
1.1 Big Boat Up the River
1.2 Feelin' Sad and Blue
1.3 Trouble Is a Woman
1.4 Something Strange Is Going on Wrong
1.5 When I Was a Little Boy
1.6 You Get a Line and I'll Get a Pole ("Crawdad")
1.7 Strange Fruit
1.8 Chain Gang
1.9 City Called Heaven
1.10 Watermelon on the Vine
1.11 Prison Wall Blues
1.12 Martha Blues

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