I’ll Meet You On That Other Shore is the third release from Global
> Jukebox, the independent label set up by the Alan Lomax Archives to
> make its vast holdings readily accessible to the music lovers via
> download-only releases. It’s also the third in the series of releases
> celebrating Alan Lomax’s Southern Journey field recordings. These
> releases were compiled and annotated by Nathan Salsburg, the albums
> draw on new transfers of the original tapes, and include considerable
> previously unreleased material and extensive booklets of photos and
> notes. I’ll Meet You On That Other Shore is released 12/28/2011.
>
> Ill Meet You On That Other Shore features John Davis and the
> Georgia Sea Island Singers, Tidewater Virginia’s Union Choir of the
> Church of God and Saints of Christ, Old Regular Baptist lining hymns
> from Eastern Kentucky, Ozark balladeer Neal Morris, work songs from
> Parchman Farm (the Mississippi State Penitentiary), octogenarian
> Charles Barnett on vocal and washtub, fiddler Carlos “Bookmiller”
> Shannon’s rendition of “The Eighth of January,”
> Hobart Smith’s performance of “Railroad Bill” — a formative influence on
> the 1960s Folk Revival — and one of the debut recordings of bluesman
> Mississippi Fred McDowell.
>
> In 1959 and 1960, at the height of the Folk Revival, Alan Lomax
> undertook the first-ever stereo field recording trip through the
> American South to document its still thriving vernacular musical
> culture. He traveled through Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama,
> Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, and North Carolina, making over 70
> hours of recordings. The trip came to be known as Lomax’s “Southern
> Journey,” and its recordings were first issued for the Atlantic and
> Prestige labels in the early ‘60s.
>
> Over the past twenty years the Archive has overseen the release of
> over a hundred album, book, and film productions — including the 2006
> Grammy-Award winning “Jelly Roll Morton: The Complete Library of
> Congress Recordings” box set. This past year the Lomax Archive
> produced the 9-CD “Alan Lomax in Haiti 1936-1937” box set — nominated
> for two Grammys — which is part of their Caribbean Repatriation
> Program to return copies of the music to its sources. In addition to
> the commercial releases, the music is being given to museums and
> schools in Haiti and other Caribbean repositories. Lesson plans have
> been created from the music and local community welfare organizations
> have taken the music directly to the temporary camps in Haiti to offer
> some level of comfort and healing. Large groups at the camps have
> heard and sung along to the recordings — the sounds of their traditions and past.
>
> Other planned Global Jukebox albums forthcoming in 2011 include,
> Lomax’s debut recordings of bluesman Mississippi Fred McDowell; a
> companion album to the new John Szwed biography Alan Lomax: The Man
> Who Recorded the World; a hardback book and two-CD set dedicated to
> Alan’s trip through Asturias, Spain — “the land at the end of
> everything”; and the launch of a series of artist curated
> compilations, for which guest musicians “Play the Global Jukebox,”
> and include an exclusive recording of their own.
>
> Alan Lomax’s career was dedicated to the cause of “cultural equity”:
> the fundamental right of every culture to express and develop its
> distinctive heritage of songs, dances, and stories. The launch of
> Global Jukebox is an exciting continuation of Lomax’s efforts to make
> sonic space for the world’s musical traditions.