Track 4 previously released as part of the Smithsonian Folkways box set Friends of Old Time Music.
Tracks 1, 3, 6, 8, 10, 12 recorded May 14, 1965 at the home of Peter K. Siegel, New York.
Tracks 2, 4, 5, 7, 11 recorded May 16, 1965 at a concert by the Friends of Old Time Music and the Newport Folk Foundation at the New School, New York.
Track 9 recorded June 1965 at the home of Joseph and Louise Spece, Nassau, Bahamas.
Track 13 recorded June 1965 at the home of Edith, Raymond and Geneva Pinder, Nassau, Bahamas.
Recorded on a Nagra III-B tape recorder with a Sony C37-A microphone.
Carù consiglia2 CD. Il suono delle Bahamas. Registrazioni sul campo effettuate negli anni sessanta da Peter K Siegel e Jody Stecher. Oltre al grande Joseph Spence, i due CD ( editi in origine nel 1966 e nel 1978 ) presentano performances di Edith e Geneva Pinder, Frederick McQueen, Bruce Green, Louise Spence, Clifton Green, Shelton e Stanley Swain, Tweedie Gibson, Raymond Pinder ed altri. Riedizione Nonesuch Usa, due CD al prezzo uno. Edizione già fuori catalogo.
All selections recorded in 1965 by Peter K Siegel and Jody Stecher in Nassau, Bahamas and New York, NY.
Album Produced by Peter K Siegel, 1991.
Manufactured in USA
Recorded May 16, 1971 (Cambridge, MA.)
Tracks 9-18 previously unissued. All other selections originally issued on Arhoolie 1061
© & ? 1972 & 1990
Printed in Canada