Label: Folkways Records – FW04601
Series: Ethnic Folkways Library – FE 601
Format: 3 x Vinyl, LP, Album Box Set
Country: US
Released: 1973
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Field Recording
Historically important recordings of the indigenous Native American Kiowa people and their religious peyote rituals. Insanely rare. (NM - with booklet)
Harry Smith (who compiled the Anthology of American Folk Music) was held for a week in the Anadarko, Oklahoma, jail on suspicion of stealing guns, and there he met several Kiowa Indians who introduced him to peyote rituals and songs of the Native American Church. In 1973, Smith returned to Anadarko to record. He decided to set up his equipment in singers’ homes or his hotel room, rather than at an actual ceremony, because the Kiowa often sang the songs in casual settings; he also would be able to record commentary.
Tracklist
A1 Kiowa (2)– Opening Song
A2 Kiowa (2)– Midnight Water Song
A3 Kiowa (2)– Morning Water Song
A4 Kiowa (2)– Quitting Song
A5 Kiowa (2)– Origin Of Peyote
A6 Kiowa (2)– Meeting Described (Section One)
A7 Kiowa (2)– Firechief's Prayer
A8 Kiowa (2)– Meeting Described (Section Two)
A9 Kiowa (2)– Midnight Prayer
A10 Kiowa (2)– Meeting Described (Section Three)
A11 Kiowa (2)– Prayer To The Four Directions
A12 Kiowa (2)– Meeting Described (Section Four)
A13 Kiowa (2)– Water-Woman's Prayer
A14 Kiowa (2)– Meeting Described (Section Five)
B1 Kiowa (2)– Introductory Statement
B2 Kiowa (2)– Starting Song (Version One)
B3 Kiowa (2)– Midnight Song (Version One)
B4 Kiowa (2)– Morning Song (Version One)
B5 Kiowa (2)– Quitting Song (Version One)
B6 Kiowa (2)– Starting Song (Version Two)
B7 Kiowa (2)– Midnight Song (Version Two)
B8 Kiowa (2)– Morning Song (Version Two)
B9 Kiowa (2)– Quitting Song (Version Two)
C1 George Saloe– Starting Song
C2 George Saloe– Midnight Song
C3 George Saloe– Morning Song
C4 George Saloe– Special Morning Song
C5 George Saloe– Quitting Song
C6 George Saloe– Intercalation Of Songs
C7 Henry Teimausaddle– Four Peyote Songs
C8 Ray Cozad, Blossom Cozad– Four Peyote Songs
D1 Ray Cozad, Blossom Cozad– Opening Song
D2 Ray Cozad, Blossom Cozad– Three Peyote Songs
D3 Ray Cozad, Blossom Cozad– Midnight Song
D4 Ray Cozad, Blossom Cozad– Three Peyote Songs
D5 Ray Cozad, Blossom Cozad– Morning Song
D6 Ray Cozad, Blossom Cozad– Three Peyote Songs
D7 Ray Cozad, Blossom Cozad– Quitting Song
D8 Ray Cozad, Blossom Cozad– Description Of The Meeting
D9 Ray Cozad, Blossom Cozad– Origin Of Peyote
E1 Winston Catt– A Song I Like
E2 Winston Catt– Another Song I Like
E3 Everett Cozad– Two Songs For Boys In The Service
E4 Everett Cozad– My Brother's Tune For Our Sister
E5 Everett Cozad– Song For Ten Gods
E6 Everett Cozad– My Own Song
E7 Everett Cozad– Song I Put Kiowa Words To
F1 Everett Cozad– My Father's Song
F2 Everett Cozad– Two Sets Of Words To The Same Song
F3 Everett Cozad– Comanche Peyote Song
F4 Everett Cozad– Henry Tennedoah's Morning Song
F5 Everett Cozad– Another Song For Ten Gods
F6 Everett Cozad– Song Of Creation
