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Mississippi Saints & Sinners: Work songs, a bad man ballad; instrumental display and dance tunes; folk ragtime music, spirituals, and shouting songs that tell of the realities of everyday life in early twentieth-century rural Mississippi -- of hard work, poverty, violence, imprisonment, hunting, dancing, love and lust, prayer, and a desire to leave one's troubles behind. These recordings, made between 1933-1942, were selected by Alan Lomax to complement Mississippi: The Blues Lineage, a companion collection of the Deep River of Song series. Deep River of Song: These field recordings of African-American music made by Alan and John A. Lomax for the Library of Congress from 1933 to 1946 capture a transformative period when black singers of the South and the Caribbean created a new musical language and thousands of brilliant songs that would captivate people throughout the world. The Alan Lomax Collection: The Alan Lomax Collection gathers together the American, European, and Caribbean field recordings, world music compilations, and ballad operas of writer, folklorist, and ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax.