COUNTRY,
BLUEGRASS & OLD-TIMEY
Old Timey & Early Country Collections
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ASV CDAJA 5140 |
Howdy - 25 Hillbilly All-Time Greats |
$11.98 |
25 tracks, 76 mins, recommended A delightful collection of
early country recording drawing on a number of disparate styles - string
band (Riley Puckett), early popularizers (Carson Robison, Vernon Dalhart),
bluesy roots (Jimmie Rodgers), folk roots (Carter Family), cowboy (Gene
Autry, Patsy Montana, Wilf Carter), western swing (Bob Wills), post war
country beginnings (Roy Acuff, Ted Daffan), novelty (The Hill Billies,
Hoosier Hot Shots) and more including the odd acapella duet vocal on She
Came Rollin' Down The Mountain by The Aarons Sisters. Excellent sound
and informative notes by Peter Dempsey. (FS)
AARONS SISTERS: She Came Rollin' Down The Mountain/ ROY ACUFF: Wabash
Cannonball/ ALABAMA BARNSTORMERS: Little Bessie/ GENE AUTRY: Atlanta Bound/
THE CARTER FAMILY: My Clinch Mountain Home/ The Foggy Mountain Top/ REX
COLE'S MOUNTAINEERS: She's Too Good For Me/ TED DAFFAN: Born To Lose/ VERNON
DALHART: The Runaway Train/ Wreck Of The Old '97/ TOMMY DUNCAN: New San
Antonio Rose/ WENDELL HALL: It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'/ THE HILL BILLIES:
Ragtime Cowboy Joe/ ZORA LAYMAN & HOMETOWNERS: When The Curtains Of The
Night Are Pinned Back By The Stars/ PATSY MONTANA: I Want To Be A Cowboy's
Sweetheart/ MONTANA SLIM: The Golden Lariat/ ORIGINAL HOOSIER HOTSHOTS: Meet
Me By The Icehouse, Lizzie/ RILEY PUCKETT: Red Wing/ CARSON ROBISON: In The
Cumberland Mountains/ West Ain't What It Used To Be/ Goin' To The Barn Dance
Tonight/ JIMMIE RODGERS: Blue Yodel/ The Brakeman's Blues/ ERNEST TUBB:
Walking The Floor Over You/ MARC WILLIAMS: The Little Old Sod Shanty On My
Claim
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ASV CDAJA 5361 |
Hillbilly Blues |
$11.98 |
25 tracks, 72 mins, highly recommended Another fine
collection featuring white country performers doing songs with a blues
flavor from the period 1929 to 1947. Although a number of these tracks are
available elsewhere (The Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Deep Elm Blues
by The Lone Star Cowboys and others) it's worthwhile to have them in this
context and there are some great obscurities like Bill Carlisle's outrageous
Bell Clappin' Mama, the beautiful fiddle/guitar instrumental
Bankhead Blues by The Nations Brothers, Dick Justice's fabulous Brown
Skin Blues, Jess Hillard's Doggone Them Blues and others from The
Delmore Brothers, The Allen Brothers, The Sons Of The Ozarks, The Shelton
Brothers, The Three Tobacco Tags and others. Sound quality is excellent and
there are brief but informative notes from the knowledgeable Tony Russell.
(FS)
ALLEN BROTHERS: A New Salty Dog/ ASHLEY & FOSTER: Times Ain't Like They Used
To Be/ BILL CARLISLE: Bell Clappin' Mama/ CLIFF CARLISLE: Pay Day Fight/ THE
CARTER FAMILY: Hello Stranger/ TOM DARBY: Sweet Sarah Blues/ JIMMIE DAVIS:
Easy Rider Blues/ THE DELMORE BROTHERS: Peach Tree Street Boogie/ HARTMAN'S
HEARTBREAKERS: Give It To Me Daddy/ JESS HILLARD: Doggone Them Blues/ BUDDY
JONES: Settle Down Blues/ DICK JUSTICE: Brown Skin Blues/ LONE STAR COWBOYS:
Deep Elm Blues/ NATIONS BROTHERS: Bankhead Blues/ ROY NEWMAN: Match Box
Blues/ RIVERSIDE RAMBLERS: Dissatisfied/ JIMMIE RODGERS: T.b. Blues/ THE
SHELTON BROTHERS: I'm Sitting On Top Of The World/ SONS OF THE OZARKS:
Plantation Blues/ THE STRIPLING BROTHERS: Salty Dog Blues/ SWIFT JEWEL
COWBOYS: Fan It/ THREE TOBACCO TAGS: V-8 Blues/ VIRGINIA ROUNDERS: Atlanta
Blues/ JOHNNY LEE WILLS: Milk Cow Blues/ SMOKY WOOD: Woodchip Blues
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ASV CDAJA 5467 |
O Brothers! |
$11.98 |
Collection of 27 old timey and bluegrass songs recorded
between 1928 and 1951 featuring family harmony - usually brothers. Mostly familiar material but there are a few harder to find tracks.
THE ANGLIN BROTHERS: Southern Whoopee Song/ THE BLUE SKY BOYS: Are You From
Dixie?/ Down On The Banks Of The Ohio/ Sunny Side Of Life/ Turn Your Radio
On/ THE CARLISLE BROTHERS: Broken Heart/ THE CARTER FAMILY: Keep On The
Sunny Side/ You Are My Flower/ THE COFER BROTHERS: Keno The Rent Man/ THE
COON CREEK GIRLS: Banjo Pickin' Girl/ THE DELMORE BROTHERS: Blue Railroad
Train/ Goin' Back To The Blue Ridge Mountains/ The Weary Lonesome Blues/ THE
DIXON BROTHERS: I Didn't Hear Anybody Pray/ Weaver's Life/ THE GIRLS OF THE
GOLDEN WEST: Roll Along, Prairie Moon/ THE LOUVIN BROTHERS: You'll Be
Rewarded Over There/ THE MADDOX BROTHERS & ROSE: Eight Thirty Blues/ WADE
MAINER & ZEKE MORRIS: Maple On The Hill/ Short Life And It's Trouble/ THE
MASTERS FAMILY: From 40 To 65/ That Little Old Country Church House/ THE
MONROE BROTHERS: Nine Pound Hammer Is Too Heavy/ Roll In My Sweet Baby's
Arms/ THE SHELTON BROTHERS: Just Because/ THE STANLEY BROTHERS: A Vision Of
Mother/ The Fields Have Turned Brown
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B.A.C.M. 030 |
The Panachord Label - Early Country Music |
$13.98 |
24 tracks, 72 mins, recommended. Excellent and varied
collection of country sides issued on the British Panachord label in the
30s. These releases drew on the ARC, Decca, Brunswick and Gennett catalogs
and this collection includes a Montana Slim cut recorded for Decca but only
issued in the U.K. on Panachord. It also features one cut by the British
group The Hill Billies under the pseudonym of The Prairie Serenaders. Among
the artists featured here are Otto Gray & The Oklahoma Cowboys, Al Bernard
with Carson Robison, Sons Of The Pioneers, Fileds & Hall, Gene Autry & Jimmy
Long (with some fine steel guitar from Frankie Marvin), The Texas Drifter
(aka Goebel Reeves - a riotous performance with some outrageous yodeling),
The McCravy Brothers, Phil & Frank Luther, The Pickard Family, Floyd Turner
& His Hometowners, Hank Keene & The Connecticutt Hillbillies, W.Lee
O'Daniels's Light Crust Dough Boys and others. (FS)
GENE AUTRY & JIMMY LONG: Missouri I'm Calling/ AL BERNARD: The Preacher &
The Bear/ WILF CARTER: How My Yodeling Days Began/ BILL COX: Lay My Head
Beneath A Rose/ FIELDS & HALL: Funny Old World Rolls Along/ OTTO GRAY &
OKLAHOMA COWBOYS: I Was Born Four Thousand Years Ago/ HANK KEENE & THE
CONNECTICUT HILLBILLIES: Runaway Boy/ BRADLEY KINCAID: Red River Valley/
PHIL & FRANK LUTHER: Jacob's Ladder/ FRANK LUTHER & CARSON ROBISON TRIO:
Ninety Nine Years/ FRANK LUTHER & CARSON ROBISON: Twenty One Years/ FRANKIE
& JOHNNY MARVIN: I Want My Boots On When I Die/ THE MCCRAVY BROS.: Why Can't
We Be Sweethearts/ MCFARLAND & GARDNER: When The Moon Comes Over The
Mountain/ W. LEE O'DANIELS' LIGHT CRUST DOUGH BOYS: Please Come Back To Me/
THE PICKARD FAMILY: She Never Came Back/ THE PRAIRIE SERENADERS: Last Of The
Texas Rangers/ GLEN RICE & HIS BEVERLY HILL BILLIES: Ragtime Cowboy Joe/
CARSON ROBISON & HIS PIONEERS: Hot Time In New Orleans Tonight/ THE SONS OF
THE PIONEERS: Our Old Age Pension Check/ TEXAS DRIFTER: Reckless Tex/ FLOYD
TURNER & HIS HOMETOWNERS: Ida Red/ She Wore A Yeller Ribbon/ MARC WILLIAMS:
Old Montana
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Collector's Choice 219 |
Park Avenue Hillbillies & West End Cowboys |
$16.98 |
25 track collection of country novelty from the 30s and 40s
- mostly from non-country artists and heavily featuring Dorothy Shay. Also
includes The Hoosier Hot Shots, The Four Lads, Zeke Manners & His Swing
Billies, Dinah Shore with Spade Cooley & His Orchestra, Tiny Hill & His
Orchestra and others.
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County 3502 |
Rural String Bands Of Virgina |
$15.98 |
16 tracks, 51 minutes, recommended. This great collection of
old time music proves that there was a lot more to the Virginia rural music
scene in the late 1920's than the Carter Family. Virginia has a very long
tradition of fiddlers and banjo players and these instruments are featured
most prominently on the Victor recording sessions from which these
instrumentals and vocal numbers are taken. Selections include familiar
chestnuts like The Girl I Left Behind Me by Dr. Lloyd & Howard Maxey
and Soldier's Joy by the Blue Ridge Highballers. Uncle Eck Dunford &
Hattie Stoneman (Ernest's wife) provide comic relief on What Will I Do,
For My Money is All Gone. Aunt Dinah's Quilting Party features
great harmony work and harmonica by the Floyd County Ramblers. The tour de
force though is Old Virginia Reel by the Fiddlin' Powers Family.
Originally recorded in two parts, it runs over 6 minutes. After a spoken and
picked introduction by each instrument the band launches into a rousing
medley of fiddle tunes that includes Flop Eared Mule, among others.
Overall the playing and singing is excellent and if the sound is a little
raw, believe me, you will not care! (DP)
DAD BLACKARD'S MOONSHINERS: Suzanna Gal/ THE BLUE RIDGE HIGHBALLERS:
Soldier's Joy/ THE BULL MOUNTAIN MOONSHINERS: Johnny Goodwin/ UNCLE ECK
DUNFORD & HATTIE STONEMAN: What Will I Do, For My Money Is All Gone/ THE
FLOYD COUNTY RAMBLERS: Aunt Dinah's Quilting Party/ THE GRANT BROTHERS: The
Johnson Boys/ KELLY HARRELL & THE VIRGINIA STRING BAND: My Name Is John
Johanna/ BELA LAM & THE GREENE COUNTY SINGERS: See That My Grave Is Kept
Green/ DR. LLOYD & HOWARD MAXEY: The Girl I Left Behind Me/ J.P. NESTOR:
Train on the Island/ RED PATTERSON'S PIEDMONT LOG ROLLERS: The Sweet Sunny
South/ FIDDLIN' POWERS FAMILY: Old Virginia Reel/ THE ROANOKE JUG BAND:
Triangle Blues/ THE SALEM HIGHBALLERS: Going On To Town/ SPANGLER & PEARSON:
Midnight Serenade/ CROCKETT WARD & HIS BOYS: Sugar Hill
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County 3504 |
Old-Time Mountain Ballads |
$15.98 |
18 cuts, 55 min, essential. More glorious old-timey and early
country music from the fine folks at County, focusing on the venerated, but
evolving tradition of mountain ballads. All songs were recorded from
1926-29, with early singers such as G.B Grayson, B.F Shelton, Buell Kazee,
and others urged to compact their songs to 3 minutes, and to sing it with a
guitar, banjo, or fiddle. This gave rise to powerful & emotional ballads,
some from archaic sources and some newly composed, but all rooted in the
"high lonesome" sound that permeated the mountains of the Southeast. Songs
such as Dark Holow/Rose Conley/Darling Cora/Ellen Smith/Willie Moore/John
Henry/& Wagoner's Lad have continued to thrive in the folk revival and
blugrass, but it is wonderful to hear them sung by such unique performers as
Clarence Ashley, Uncle Dave Macon, Ernest Stoneman, Burnett & Rutherford,
Blind Alfred Reed, & banjoist John Hammond. Fine notes by Charles Wolfe &
superb sound round out an exemplary CD of some of America's finest music.
(JM)
CLARENCE ASHLEY: Dark Hollow blues/ GREEN BAILEY: The fate of Ellen Smith/
BURNETT AND RUTHERFORD: Pearl Bryan/ Willie Moore/ GRAYSON AND WHITTER: I'll
never be yours/ Rose Conley/ JOHN HAMMOND: My mamma always talked to me/
KELLY HARRELL: Charles Guiteau/ THE HICKORY NUTS: Louisville burglar/ FRANK
JENKINS' PILOT MOUNTAINEERS: The burial of Wild Bill/ BUELL KAZEE: The
wagoner's lad/ UNCLE DAVE MACON: Death of John Henry (Steel Driving Man)/
BYRD MOORE: Frankie Silvers/ AULTON RAY: Dixie cowboy/ THE RED FOX CHASERS:
Wreck on the mountain road/ BLIND ALFRED REED: The fate of Chris Lively and
wife/ RUTHERFORD AND FOSTER: Six months ain't long/ B.F. SHELTON: Darling
Cora
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County 3506 |
Echoes Of The Ozarks, Vol. 1 |
$15.98 |
22 tracks, 66 min, recommended. CD version of a compilation
first put together by Dave Freeman in 1969, featuring 22 examples of old time
country recordings from the mysterious Ozark Mountain region of America
during the late 20s and early 30s, featuring such outstanding outfits as The
Morrison Twin Brothers Band (some real, uh, twin fiddling here on
outstanding versions of Dry and Dusty and The Ozark Waltz), Pope's Arkansas
Mountaineers, Luke Highnight's Ozark Strutters, George Edgin's Corn Dodgers,
Fiddling Sam Long, Ashley's Melody Men, and especially Ted Sharp, whose
fiddle workouts on Pike's Peak and Robinson County are awe inspiring. This
collection and volume two hold special treasures for the dedicated
traditional country music fan, especially fans of great country fiddling.
(RP)
ASHLEY'S MELODY MEN: Searcy County Rag/ GEORGE EDGIN'S CORN DODGERS: Corn
Dodger #1 Special/ My Ozark Mountain Home/ LUKE HIGHNIGHT'S OZARK STRUTTERS:
Bailey Waltz/ Ft. Smith Breakdown/ Sailing on the Ocean/ There's No Hell in
Georgia/ Walk Along John/ FIDDLIN' SAM LONG: Echoes of the Ozarks/ Sandy
Land/ Seneca Square Dance/ THE MORRISON BROTHERS BAND: Dry and Dusty/ Ozark
Waltz/ POPE'S ARKANSAS MOUNTAINEERS: Cotton Eyed Joe/ George Washington/ Get
Along Home Miss Cindy/ Hog Eye/ Jaw Bone/ TED SHARP, HINMAN & SHARP: Old
Grey Horse/ Pike's Peak/ Robinson County
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County 3507 |
Echoes Of The Ozarks, Vol. 2 |
$15.98 |
21 tracks, 62 min, recommended. This volume continues the
documentation of recorded music from The Ozarks, circa 1928. Volume 2
celebrates the recordings of such stalwart groups as Dr. Smith's Champion
Hoss Hair Pullers, Reaves White County Ramblers, Arkansas Barefoot Boys, A. E.Ward & His Plowboys, and The Fiddlin' Bob Larkin Family. My favorite group
here is The Grinell Giggers; their Duck Shoes Rag, Ruth's Rag, and Plow Boy
Hop are all lively, syncopated pieces that move things along in a sprightly
fashion. As with volume one, authoritative, well researched notes by
traditional music authority Charles K. Wolfe. (RP)
THE ARKANSAS BAREFOOT BOYS: Eighth of January/ BIRKHEAD & LANE: Robinson
County/ HITER COVIN: Indian War Whoop/ Rabbit Up a Gum Stump/ THE GRINNELL
GIGGERS: Duck Shoes Rag/ Plow Boy Hop/ Ruth's Rag/ FIDDLIN' BOB LARKAN & HIS
MUSIC MAKERS: Higher Up The Monkey Climbs/ Kansas City Reel/ Saturday Night
Waltz/ FIDDLIN' BOB LARKAN FAMILY: Prairie County Waltz/ REAVES WHITE COUNTY
RAMBLERS: Arkansas Traveler/ Drunkard's Hiccoughs/ Flying Engine/ Rattler
Treed a Possum/ Shortenin' Bread/ Ten Cent Piece/ DR. SMITH'S CHAMPION HOSS
HAIR PULLERS: Going Down The River/ In The Garden Where The Irish Potatoes
Grow/ A.E. WARD & HIS PLOWBOYS: Going to Leave Old Arkansas/ The Old Dinner
Bell
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County 3511 |
Rural String Bands Of Tennessee |
$15.98 |
18 tracks from the 20s and early 30s.
MR. AND MRS. J.W. BAKER: On The Banks Of The Old Tennessee/ CHARLIE BOWMAN
AND HIS BROTHERS: Forked Deer/ Moonshiner And His Money/ WARREN CAPLINGER'S
CUMBERLAND MOUNTAIN ENTERTAI: Saro/ HOMER DAVENPORT AND THE YOUNG BROTHERS:
The Old Hen Cackled/ THE GRANT BROTHERS: Johnson Boys/ GRAYSON AND WHITTER:
Going Down The Lee Highway/ LINDSEY AND CONDER: Boll Weevil/ THE MCCARTT
BROTHERS AND PATTERSON: Green Valley Waltz/ THE PERRY COUNTY MUSIC MAKERS:
I'm Sad And Blue/ RIDGEL'S FOUNTAIN CITIANS: Baby Call Your Dog Off/ THE
ROANE COUNTY RAMBLERS: Alabama Trot/ Everybody Two-Step/ THE TENNESSEE
RAMBLERS: Preacher Got Drunk And Laid His Bible Down/ VANCE'S TENNESSEE
BREAKDOWNERS: Tennessee Breakdown/ Tennessee Mountain Fox Chase/ WEEMS
STRING BAND: Davy/ Greenback Dollar
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County 3512 |
Old-Time Mountain Guitar |
$15.98 |
18 tracks, 54 mins, essential. Beautiful collection of
country guitar instrumentals from the period 1926-1931. This is an expanded,
remastered version of an old County LP and if a lot of the tunes sound
familiar it's because many guitarists learned tunes from
the original LP version of this collection. Lots of bluesy
and ragtimey tunes from performers like Sam McGee, David Miller, Frank
Hutchison, Melvin Dupree, The South Georgia Highballers, David Fletcher &
Gwen Foster, Roy Harvey & Jess Johnson and others. Beautiful sound,
informative notes - the real thing! (FS)
JOHNNIE CROCKETT/ALBERT CROCKETT: Fresno Blues/ JOHN DILLESHAW & THE STRING
MARVEL: Spanish Fandango/ MELVIN DUPREE: Augusta Rag/ Norfolk Flip/ DAVID
FLETCHER/GWEN FOSTER: Charlotte Hot-Step/ Red Rose Rag/ ROY HARVEY & JESS
JOHNSON: Guitar Rag/ Jefferson Street Rag/ ROY HARVEY & LEONARD COPELAND:
Back To The Blue Ridge/ Greasy Wagon/ Lonesome Weary Blues/ FRANK HUTCHISON:
Logan County Blues/ SAM MCGEE: Buck Dancer's Choice/ Franklin Blues/ DAVID
MILLER: Jailhouse Rag/ BAYLESS ROSE: Jamestown Exhibition/ THE SOUTH GEORGIA
HIGHBALLERS: Blue Grass Twist/ LOWE STOKES & HIS NORTH GEORGIANS: Take Me To
The Land Of Jazz
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County 3513 |
Mississippi String Bands |
$15.98 |
First of two volumes featuring traditional fiddle music from
Mississippi recorded in the 20s and 30s.
THE CARTER BROTHERS & SON: Cotton Eyed Joe/ Jenny On The Railroad/ Miss
Brown/ Nancy Rowland/ Old Joe Bone/ Saddle Up The Grey/ THE LEAKE COUNTY
REVELERS: Dry Town Blues/ Mississippi Breakdown/ Old Hat, The/ FLOYD MING'S
PEP STEPPERS: Indian War Whoop/ Tupelo Blues/ THE MISSISSIPPI POSSUM
HUNTERS: Last Shot Got Him, The/ Mississippi Breakdown/ Possum On A Rail/
Rufus Rastus/ NARMOUR & SMITH: Avalon Quickstep/ Sweet Milk & Peaches/ THE
RAY BROTHERS: Choctaw County Rag/ Jake Leg Wobble/ Mississippi Echoes
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County 3514 |
Mississippi String Bands, Vol. 2 |
$15.98 |
| CLARDY AND CLEMENTS: Little Black Mustache/ FREELY'S BARN DANCE BAND:
Croquet Habit/ Don't You Remember The Time?/ Mississippi Square Dance/
FREENY'S BARN DANCE BAND: Sally Anne/ Sullivan's Hollow/ THE LEAKE COUNTY
REVELERS: Johnson Gal/ Lonesome Blues/ Molly Put The Kettle On/ Wednesday
Night Waltz/ NARMOUR & SMITH: Captain George, Has Your Money Come?/ Carroll
County Blues/ Charleston #1/ Mississippi Breakdown/ THE NATIONS BROTHERS: Bankhead Blues/ Magnolia Two-Step/ Negro Suppertime/ Sales Tax Toddle/ THE
NEWTON COUNTY HILLBILLIES: Going To The Wedding To Get Some Cake/ Little
Princess' Footsteps
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County 3518 |
Old-Time Music Of West Virginia, Vol. 1 |
$15.98 |
First of two albums featuring recordings of some of the
great and obscure rural musicians from West Virginia who recorded in the 20s
and early 30s.
CORN COB CRUSHERS: Ragtime Annie/ FRUIT JAR GAZZLERS: Kentucky Bootlegger/
FRUIT JAR GUZZLERS: Stack-o-lee/ HARVEY & COPELAND: Beckley Rag/ Underneath
The Sugar Moon/ FRANK HUTCHISON: The Miner‘s Blues/ West Virginia Rag/
JARVIS & JUSTICE: Muskrat Rag/ JUSTICE & JARVIS: Poca River Blues/ THE
KESSINGER BROS: Garfield March/ Sally Goodin/ LEFTWICH & LILLY: Lonesome
Road Blues/ MCCLUNG BROS: Liza Jane/ BLIND ALFRED REED: Explosion In The
Fairmount Mines/ You‘ll Miss Me/ TWEELDY BROS: Home Brew Rag/ WEST VIRGINIA
NIGHT OWLS: Sweet Bird/ WILLIAMSON BROS & CURRY: Gonna Die With My Hammer In
My Hand/ WILLIAMSON BROS & CURY: Waterfield
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County 3519 |
Old-Time Music Of West Virginia, Vol. 2 |
$15.98 |
19 more sides from Frank Hutchison, The Kessinger Brothers,
Tweedy Brothers, Fruit Jar Guzzlers, Williamson Brothers & Curry, Dick
Justice, Mostsville String Ticklers, West Virginia Ramblers and more.
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County 3521 |
Nashville - The Early String Bands, Vol. 1 |
$15.98 |
19 gorgeous sides from 1927 through 1938.Great sound and 16 page booklet has detailed notes by Charles
Wolfe and rare photos.
DR. HUMPHREY BATE AND THE POSSUM HUNTERS: Eighth Of January/ Green Backed
Dollar Bill/ My Wife Died Saturday Night/ Throw The Old Cow Over The Fence/
BINKLEY BROTHERS' CLODHOPPERS: Give Me Back My Fifteen Cents/ I'll Rise When
The Rooster Crows/ UNCLE DAVE MACON: Oh Baby, You Done Me Wrong/ Railroadin'
And Gamblin'/ I'm Goin' Away In The Morn/ SAM MCGEE: Chevrolet Car/ MCGEE
BROTHERS: Charming Bill/ Salt Lake City Blues/ GRADY MOORE: Old Joe/ ARTHUR
SMITH TRIO: Fiddler's Dream/ Stood On The Bridge At Midnight/ Sugar Tree
Stomp/ BUNT STEVENS: Candy Girl/ PAUL WARMACK & HIS GULLY JUMPERS: Robertson
County/ Stone Rag
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County 3522 |
Nashville - The Early String Bands, Vol. 2 |
$15.98 |
| DEFORD BAILEY: Alcoholic Blues/ Ice Water Blues/ John Henry/ Muscle Shoal
Blues/ CROOK BROTHERS STRING BAND: Going Across The Sea/ Jobbin Gettin'
There/ Love Somebody/ THERON HALE & BAND: Fire In The Mountain/ THERON HALE
& DAUGHTERS: Hale's Rag/ Jolly Blacksmith/ UNCLE DAVE MACON: Over The Road
I'm Bound To Go/ Bake That Chicken Pie/ BLIND JOE MANGRUM: Bacon And
Cabbage/ Bill Cheatham/ SAM & KIRK MCGEE: Brown's Ferry Blues/ MCGEE
BROTHERS: Old Master's Runaway/ UNCLE JIMMY THOMPSON: Billy Wilson/ Karo/
Uncle Jimmy's Favourite Fiddling Pieces: Flying Clouds/leather Breeches
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County 3523 |
Old-Time Music Of South-West Virginia |
$15.98 |
More great old time music from the 20s and early 30s from
County - this time focusing on the music of South-West Virginia featuring
APPALACHIAN VAGABOND: Hard For To Love/ The Peddlar And His Wife/ ERMY
ARTHUR: Careless Love/ Reuben Oh Reuben/ She Lied To Me/ Short Life Of
Trouble/ DOCK BOGGS: Country Blues/ Danville Girl/ Down South Blues/ Old Rub
Alcohol Blues/ Pretty Polly/ DYKES' MAGIC CITY TRIO: Callahan's Reel/ Free
Little Bird/ Hook And Line/ Huckleberry Blues/ Shortening Bread/ BYRD MOORE:
Bed Bugs Makin' Their Last Go-round/ Careless Lover/ FIDDLIN' POWERS &
FAMILY: Callahan's Reel/ Old Virginia Reel Pt. 2/ Patty On The Turnpike/
ROBINETTE & MOORE: Favorite Two-step/ Last Days In Georgia/ Mama Don't Allow
No Low Down Hangin' Around/ That Old Tiger Rag
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County 3524 |
Old-Time Texas String Bands, Vol. 1 - Texas
Farewell |
$15.98 |
Another collection of great early string band recordings -
this time from Texas.
THE EAST TEXAS SERENADERS: Acorn Stomp/ Three-in-one Two-step/ OSCAR HARPER:
Beaumont Rag/ Terrell Texas Blues/ Twinkle Litte Star/ PRINCE ALBERT HUNT'S
TEXAS RAMBLERS: Blues In A Bottle/ Houston Slide/ Wake Up Jacob/ LEWIS
BROTHERS: Bull At The Wagon/ Sally Johnson/ When Summer Comes Again/ FIDDIN'
JIM PATE: Prisoner Boy/ Texas Farewell/ RED HEADED FIDDLERS: Cheat 'em/ Far
In The Mountain/ Texas Quickstep/ ECK ROBERTSON: Arkansas Traveler/ Great
Big Taters/ There's A Brown Skin Gal Down The Road Somewhere
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County 3525 |
Old-Time Texas String Bands, Vol. 2 - Dallas
Bound |
$15.98 |
| CAPTAIN M.J. BONNER: Dusty Miller/ Ma Ferguson/ Yearling's In The Canebrake
The Gal On The Log/ THE EAST TEXAS SERENADERS: Babe/ Combination Rag/ Deacon
Jones/ Sweetest Flower/ OSCAR HARPER: Billy In The Low Ground/ Bitter Creek/
Dallas Bound/ Sally Johnson/ JOE HUGHES: Ragtime Annie/ Sally Johnson/ RED
HEADED FIDDLERS: Fatal Wedding/ RED HEADED FIDDLER: Paddy On The Hand Care/
Steeley Rag/ HUGH RODEN & HIS TEXAS NIGHT HAWKS: Crazy Rag/ Possum Rag/
SMITH'S GARAGE FIDDLE BAND: Beaumont Rag/ Cuban Two-step/ Tom And Jerry
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Country Stars 55472 |
I'm A Man Of Constant Sorrow |
$10.98 |
"O Brother, Where Art Thou?" strikes again! This 20 track
collection features vintage recordings of some of the songs made popular in
the movie along with other miscellaneous American roots music. Includes the
the title song by The Stanley Brothers (among the greatest musical
performances of the 20th century), Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues by
Skip James, I'll Fly Away by The Humbard Family, Indian War Whoop
by Hoy Ming & His Pep-Steppers, Sandy Land by Fiddlin' Sam Long,
Way Down The Old Plank Road by Uncle Dave Macon, Country Blues by
Dock Boggs plus tracks by The Carter Family, Jimmie davis, Jimmie Rodgers,
Blind Willie Johnson, Bessie Smith and others.
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Document DOCD 8009 |
Mississippi String Bands, Vol. 1 : 1928-1935 |
$15.98 |
The complete recorded works in chronological order.
THE CARTER BROTHERS & SON: Cotton Eyed Joe/ Give Me A Chaw Of Tobacco/ Give
The Fiddler A Dram/ Jenny On The Railroad/ Leather Breeches/ Liza Jane/ Miss
Brown/ Nancy Rowland/ Old Joe Bone/ Saddle Up The Grey/ THE FREENY
HARMONIZERS: Podunk Toddle/ Travellin' Blues/ FREENY'S DANCE BAND: Croquet
Habits/ Don't You Remember The Time/ Mississippi Square Dance - Part 1/
Mississippi Square Dance - Part 2/ Sullivan's Hollow/ The Leake County Two
Step/ FLOYD MING & HIS PEP STEPPERS: Indian War Whoop/ Old Red/ Tupelo
Blues/ White Mule/ RED WHITEHEAD & DUTCH COLEMAN: Booneville Stomp/ Dad's
Getting Fuzzy
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Document DOCD 8021 |
Georgia Stringbands, Vol. 1 1927-1930 |
$15.98 |
The complete recorded works in chronological order.
CARROLL COUNTY REVELERS: Georgia Bound/ Georgia Wobble Blues/ Rome/ THEO. &
GUS CLARK: Barrow County Stomp/ Wimbush Rag/ COFER BROTHERS: Because He
Loved Her So/ How Long?/ Keno, The Rent Man/ Rock That Cradle Lucy/ The All
Go Hungry Hash House/ The Georgia Hobo/ The Great Ship Went Down/ Where The
Morning Glories Grow/ THE GEORGIA CRACKERS: Diamond Joe/ I've Got A Gal In
Baltimore/ Riley The Furniture Man/ Stockade Blues/ The Coon From Tennessee/
The Georgia Black Bottom/ THE SPOONEY FIVE: Chinese Rag/ My Little Girl/
WATKINS BAND: Bob Murphy/ Gideon Little/ Girl, You Know I Love You/ Tom's
Rag
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Document DOCD 8024 |
Georgia Songsters |
$15.98 |
22 tracks, 68 mins, recommended Entertaining collection of
novelty and sentimental songs by two obscure Georgia performers. Oscar
Ford's 14 sides were recorded between 1927 and 1930 and are a mostly
delightful upbeat numbers like Down In The Old Home Town/ Old Folks, Get
In Bed/ Henry Ford's Model A/ Riding In A Chevrolet Six/ The Farmer's Dream
and others with excellent accompaniments often featuring members of The
Skillet Lickers (Bert Layne, Riley Puckett, etc). Walter Morris recorded 8
tracks between 1926 and '27 with fiddle accompaniment. He is a less
impressive singer and his emphasis on sentimental songs makes his
performances less interesting to me. Sound is generally very good and notes
by Tony Russell are of his usual high standard. (FS)
OSCAR FORD JR.: Down In The Old Home Town/ Georgia Is My Home/ Henry Ford's
Model A/ Hide Away/ Kiss Me, Cindy/ Little Nan/ Married Life Blues/ Me And
My Gal/ Old Folks Get In Bed/ Race Between A Ford And Chevorlet/ Riiding In
A Chevrolet Six/ Sweetest Girl In Town/ The Farmer's Dream/ The Girl I Love
In Sunny Tennessee/ WALTER MORRIS: Betsey Brown/ Crazy Coon/ In The Time Of
Long Ago/ Lulu Walsh/ Mother's Face I Long To See/ Sweet Marie/ Take Back
Your Gold/ The Railroad Tramp
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Document DOCD 8028 |
Mississippi String Bands, 1928-1930 |
$15.98 |
22 tracks, 62 mins, essential. Mississippi bands are known
for their gentle funk and, especially, for their uniquely smooth, liquid
fiddling, and these five bands don't disappoint. Standouts here are the four
tracks by the Mississippi Possum Hunters and the ten by the great Ray
Brothers: both groups play a brand of hillbilly music that's shot through
with echoes of the blues and the minstrel music that came before it. Also
good to have are the beautiful waltzes fiddled by Gene Clardy, who had
taught Willie Narmour (Mississippi's finest fiddler). Sound is clean. (DW)
STAN CLEMENTS: Black Mustache/ Flow Rain Waltz/ Harvest Home Waltz/
Moonlight Clog/ Sleeping Time Waltz/ Slow Time Waltz/ MAGNOLIA RAMBLERS:
Evening Shade Waltz/ Northeast Texas/ MISSISSIPPI POSSUM HUNTERS: 'possum On
The Rail/ Mississippi Breakdown/ Rufus Rastus/ The Last Shot Got Him/ RAY
BROTHERS: Choctaw County Rag/ Friday Night Waltz/ Got The Jake Leg Too/ Home
Town Waltz/ Honeysuckle Waltz/ Jake Leg Wobble/ Mississippi Echoes/ The
Folks Back Home/ Tuzcaloosa Waltz/ Winona Rag
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Document DOCD 8032 |
Alabama Stringbands |
$15.98 |
24 tracks, 69 mins, recommended. For whatever reason, the
only state in Dixie to contribute less to the recorded legacy of old time
music is its neighbor, Florida. While that makes these records rare and
precious, it doesn't necessarily make them great. The exceptions here are
Dr. Dix D. Hollis, one of the oldest and earliest fiddlers to record, whose
8 dimly-recorded solo sides are a window into an America already dead and
gone, two glorious 1937 sides by the Dixie Ramblers--one of the last
old-time string bands to record--and the legendary (and very rare)
Hamilton's Special Breakdown, by Y. Z. "Wyzee" Hamilton. (Other acts:
the Short Creek Trio; Akins Birmingham Boys.) (DW)
AKINS BIRMINGHAM BOYS: I Walked And Walked/ There Ain't No Flies On Auntie/
THE DIXIE RAMBLERS: Franklin County Blues/ WYZEE HAMILTON: Because He Was
Only A Tramp/ Cornbread (with Luther Patrick, Vcl)/ Fifty Years Ago/
Grandfather's Liver (ain't What It Used To Wus) (with Luther Patrick, Vcl)/
Hamilton's Special Breakdown/ Old Sefus Brown/ DR. D.D. HOLLIS: Dixie And
Yankee Doodle/ Glory On The Big String/ Lone Indian/ None Greater Than
Lincoln/ The Girl Slipped Down/ Turkey In De Straw/ Walking In The Parlor/
Whistlebe/ THE SHORT CREEK TRIO: Hand Me Down My Walking Cane/ Huntin' Me A
Home (with Ruben Burns)/ Nobody's Business (with Ruben Burns)/ The Buckin'
Mule (with Cliff Click)/ The Burglar Man (with Ruben Burns)/ The Old Hen
Cackled And The Rooster Crowed
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Document 8037 |
Nashville, 1928 |
$15.98 |
23 tracks, 68 mins, highly recommended This CD pulls
together the results of a Victor field trip to record a selection of Opry
acts. The six heard here are mostly second-string--Uncle Dave Macon and Dr.
Humphrey Bate, among others, having already recorded elsewhere--but capable
of some fine, driving playing for all that. And there's one absolutely
essential track, the Binkley Brothers' I'll Rise When the Rooster Crows:
Jack Jackson, a singer added at Victor's insistence, turns in one of the
greatest vocal performances in hillbilly music. (Other acts: Paul Warmack &
His Gully Jumpers; Theron Hale & Daughters; Poplin-Woods Tennessee String
Band; Crook Brothers; Blind Joe Mangrum.) Sound is better than Document's
average. (DW)
BINKLEY BROTHERS' DIXIE CLODHOPPERS: All Go Hungry Hash House/ Give Me Back
My Fifteen Cents/ I'll Rise When The Rooster Crows/ In The Lane/ It'll Never
Happen Again/ Little Old Log Cabin/ When I Had But Fifty Cents/ CROOK
BROTHERS STRING BAND: Going Across The Sea/ Jobbin Gettin' There/ Love
Somebody/ My Wife Died On Friday Night/ THERON HALE & DAUGHTERS: Beautiful
Valley/ Hale's Rag/ Jolly Blacksmith/ Listen To The Mocking Bird/ Turkey
Gobbler/ BLIND JOE MANGRUM & FRED SHRIVER: Bacon And Cabbage/ Bill Cheatam/
POPLIN-WOODS TENNESSEE STRING BAND: Are You From Dixie?/ Dreamy Autumn
Waltz/ PAUL WARMACK & HIS GULLY JUMPERS: Behind The Train/ Robertson County/
Stone Rag/ Tennessee Waltz/ The Little Red Caboose
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Document 8038 |
Texas Fiddle Bands, Vol. 1 : 19250130 |
$15.98 |
24 tracks.
CAPTAIN M.J. BONNER: Dusty Miller/ Ma Ferguson/ Yearling's In The Canebrake/
The Gal On The Log/ RED HEADED FIDDLERS: Cheat 'em/ Far In The Mountain/
Fatal Wedding/ Never Alone Waltz/ Paddy On The Hand Car/ Ragtime Annie/ St.
Jobe's Waltz/ Texas Quick Step/ Texas Waltz/ The Steeley Rag/ SMITH'S GARAGE
FIDDLE BAND: Beaumont Rag/ Cuban Two-step Rag/ Dill Pickle Rag/ Done Gone/
Lime Rock/ Miss Jola/ Ragtime Annie/ The Gray Eagle/ Tom And Jerry/ Twinkle,
Twinkle Little Star/ SOLOMON & HUGHES: Ragtime Annie/ Sally Johnson
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Fremeaux & Associates 015 |
Country - Nashville, Dallas, Hollywood,
1927-42 |
$25.98 |
2 discs, 36 tracks, 105 min., recommended
The back cover
notes here hyperbolically claim that this is "the first early country music
anthology ever issued." Well, in France perhaps, but not here. Even so, the
selections offered here do provide a nice overview of country styles between
the years 1927 and 1944. Highlights on the first disc include Railroad
Blues by Sam McGee, The Butcher's Boy by Buell Kazee, The
House Carpenter by Clarence Ashley, Slow Wicked Blues by Jimmie
Tarlton, Pan American Man by Cliff Carlisle, and Wildwood Flower
by the Carter Family. Among the numbers featured on disc two are Jimmie's
Texas Blues by Jimmie Rodgers, The Days of '49 by Jules Verne
Allen, Song of the Bandit by the Sons of the Pioneers, Liza Pull
Down the Shades by Bob Wills, and Wreck on the Highway by Roy
Acuff. All in all, a nice mix of the well known and the relatively obscure.
Sound quality is fine; notes are offered in French and English, and the
cover photo emphasizes country music as seen by Hollywood. You know, cute
girls in very short skirts wearing cowboy (perhaps "cowgirl"?) boots,
standing or sitting next to guys wearing cowboy hats and playing guitars.
(DH)
ROY ACUFF AND THE SMOKY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Fireball Mail/ Wreck On The Highway/
JULES VERNE ALLEN: The Days Of 49/ The Dying Cowboy/ SHELLY LEE ALLEY & HIS
ALLEY CATS: Women, Women, Women/ CLARENCE ASHLEY: The House Carpenter/ GENE
AUTRY: I'll Go Ridin' Down That Old Texas Trail/ DOCK BOGGS: Country Blues/
MILTON BROWN AND HIS BROWNIES: Hesitation Blues/ CLIFF CARLISLE: Pan
American Man/ THE CAROLINA TARHEELS: Peg And Awl/ BUSTER CARTER & PRESTON
YOUNG: A Lazy Farmer Boy/ THE CARTER FAMILY: John Hardy/ Wildwood Flower/
JIMMIE DAVIS: Rockin' Blues/ THE DELMORE BROTHERS: Brown's Ferry Blues/ G.B.
GRAYSON: Ommie Wise/ KELLY HARRELL: My Name Is John Johanna/ ADOLPH HOFNER &
HIS SAN ANTONIANS: Alamo Rag/ DICK JUSTICE: Brownskin Blues/ BUELL KAZEE:
The Butcher's Boy/ SAM MCGEE: Railroad Blues/ THE MONROE BROTHERS: All The
Good Times Are Passed And Gone/ Sinner, You Better Get Ready/ PATSY MONTANA:
I Wanna Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart/ JIMMIE REVARD & HIS OKLAHOMA PLAYBOYS: Fox
and Hounds/ TEX RITTER: Rye Whiskey, Rye Whiskey/ JIMMIE RODGERS: Blue Yodel
No. 8/ Jimmie's Texas Blues/ ROY ROGERS: Cowboy Night Herd Song/ SONS OF THE
PIONEERS: Song Of The Bandit/ JIMMIE TARLTON: Slow Wicked Blue/ ERNEST TUBB
AND THE TROUBADOURS: I Ain't Honky Tonkin' Anymore/ THE WILLIAMSON BROTHERS:
Gonna Die With My Hammer In My Hand/ BOB WILLS & HIS TEXAS PLAYBOYS: Liza,
Pull The Shades Down/ What's The Matter With The Mill
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Fremeaux & Associates 047 |
Folksongs - Old Time Country Music, USA :
1926-1944 |
$25.98 |
2 CDs, 36 tracks, 104 mins, highly recommended
Another one
of those excellent compilations put together by Gerard Herzhaft and
focusing on an important musical genre. This one is devoted to old time
country music - solo singers, duos, string bands. It is a particularly
welcome issue as there is a paucity of reissues of this music on CD. The
collection casts its net wide including performers as diverse as Clarence
Ashley, Buell Kazee, Ernest V. Stoneman & Wife, The Twentieth Century
Minstrel (actually Richard Dyer-Bennett), The Morris Brothers, Sam & Kirk
McGee, The Carter Family, Darby & Tarleton, The Monroe Brothers, Dock Boggs,
Woody Guthrie (a very soulful fiddle instrumental), Dick Justice, Burnett &
Rutherford, Jimmie Rodgers, The Delmore Brothers and others. It also
includes a few African-American performers like Papa Harvey Hull, Gus Cannon
& Lead Belly which show the intertwining of the musical styles. Sound quality
is excellent and the 48 booklet includes notes in French and English,
discographical info and lots of photos and other memorabilia. (FS)
CLARENCE ASHLEY: The Coo Coo Bird/ WILL BENNETT: Railroad Bill/ DOCK BOGGS:
Down South Blues/ Pretty Polly/ BURNETT & RUTHERFORD: Hesitation Blues
(Curly Headed Woman)/ BURNETT AND RUTHERFORD: Willie Moore/ GUS CANNON: Poor
Boy/ THE CARTER FAMILY: Keep On The Sunny Side/ Rambling Boy/ DARBY &
TARLTON: Birmingham Jail (On Monday)/ In The Pines/ THE DELMORE BROTHERS:
Careless Love/ Raining On The Mountain/ WOODY GUTHRIE: 900 Miles/ PAPA
HARVEY HULL: Alabama Bound/ FRANK HUTCHISON: Stackalee/ DICK JUSTICE: Henry
Lee/ BUELL KAZEE: East Virginia/ The Wagoner's Lad/ LEAD BELLY: Midnight
Special/ BASCOM LAMAR LUNSFORD: I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground/ MAINER &
MORRIS: Train Carry My Girl Back Home/ SAM & KIRK MCGEE: Brown's Ferry
Blues/ THE MONROE BROTHERS: Little Red Shoes (Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty
Little Foot)/ My Long Journey Home/ Nine Pound Hammer/ Roll In My Sweet
Baby's Arms/ THE MORRIS BROTHERS: Salty Dog/ NOACH & SPARK: Greenback
Dollar/ CHARLIE POOLE: White House Blues/ JIMMIE RODGERS: Frankie And
Johnnie/ Gambling Barroom Blues (St. James Infirmary)/ ERNEST V. STONEMAN &
WIFE: The Mountaineer's Courtship/ THE TWENTIETH CENTURY MINSTREL:
Greensleeves/ THE TWO POOR BOYS: John Henry/ Two White Horses
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Fremeaux & Associates 065 |
Hillbilly Blues, 1928-1946 |
$25.98 |
Another of those fine 2 CD sets from Fremeaux - this one
featuring blues as played by country performers.
THE ALLEN BROTHERS: New Deal Blues/ CHET ATKINS: Guitar Blues/ MILTON BROWN:
Somebody's Been Using That Thing/ Texas Hambone Blues/ SPADE COOLEY: You
Better Do It Now/ BUSTER COWARD: Driftin' Texas Sand/ DARBY & TARLTON:
Freight Train Ramble/ Heavy Hearted Blues/ JIMMIE DAVIS: Arabella Blues/
Easy Rider Blues/ Sewing Machine Blues/ THE DELMORE BROTHERS: Going Back to
the Blue Ridge Mountain/ Lonesome Jailhouse Blues/ JACK GUTHRIE: The Clouds
Rained Trouble Down/ HARTMAN'S HEARTBREAKERS: Grandma and Grandpa/ No Huggin'
or Kissin'/ ADOLPH HOFNER: I'll Keep My Old Guitar/ HELEN HUNT: Married Man
Blues/ BUDDY JONES: Mean Old Lonesome Blues/ BILL MONROE: Blue Yodel #4/
MOON MULLICAN: Lay Me Down Beside My Darling/ LES PAUL: Midnight Special/
RILEY PUCKETT: Chain Gang Blues/ THE RAMBLING RANGERS: Gettin' Tired/ JIMMIE
RODGERS: Blue Yodel/ THE SHELTON BROTHERS: Somebody Baby/ GENE SULLIVAN:
Kansas City Blues/ THE SUNSHINE BOYS: What's the Matter with Deep Elm?/
Worried Man's Blues/ MERLE TRAVIS: That's All/ ERNEST TUBB: Fort Worth Jail/
Mean Mama Blues/ T-TEXAS TYLER: T. Texas Blues/ BOB WILLS: Honey What You
Gonna Do?/ Swing Blues #1/ JOHNNIE LEE WILLS: Milk Cow Blues
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Global Village 1002 |
Virginia Traditions - Ballads From British
Tradition |
$16.98 |
Field and commercial recordings - Polly Johnson, S.F. "Sam"
Russell, Dan Tate, Texas Gladden, Dorothy Rorick, Dock Boggs, Ernest
Stoneman, The Stanley Brothers, etc.
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Global Village 1004 |
Virginia Traditions - Native Virginia
Ballads |
$16.98 |
CD issue of BRI 004. Another in the excellent series
originally issued by the Blueridge Institute Of Ferrum College, Virginia.
This one features traditional songs mostly about people and events in
Southwest Virginia. Recordings from between 1927 and 1980 taken from
commercial and field recordings. Includes Claude Allen by Hobart
Smith, The Vance Song by Uncle Branch W. Higgins, The Wreck Of The
1256 by Vernon Dalhart, The Story Of Freeda Bolt by Floyd County
Ramblers, The Story Of The Flood by The Stanley Brothers, Highway
'52 by Little "Doc" Raymond & The Comena Pardners plus more from Spencer
Moore, Ernest V. Stoneman, The Carter Family, Jim Marshall and others. Four
page booklet is condensation of the original 20 page booklet which is still
available separately from BRI. (FS)
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Global Village 1010 |
Early Roanoke Country Radio |
$16.98 |
A remarkable documentation of live country music programming
in the Roanoke, Va. area from 1929 to 1952. Side 1 consists of snippets of
radio shows, from 5 minutes to 55 seconds (Paddy on the Turnpike by
the Dixie Playboys from 1951). All forms of country music are represented
here, from jug bands and old time country hoedowns and fiddle tunes to
cowboy balladeers and Bob Wills inspired Western Swing. Most bands here
represented achieved only regional notoriety, and would likely be forgotten
if not for this exhaustive documentation. Side 2 presents two 15 minute
country shows, a common format of the time. Roy Hall and the Blue Ridge
Entertainers from 1941 feature some first rate old time country, including
some hot fiddling by Roy Magness. The show is complete with commercials and
rather amazing claims for Dr. Pepper soft drinks. Side 2 concludes with some
fine 1947 sides by Magness and his band, the Orange Blossom Boys. The sound
is not not the best, but acceptable for this fascinating document of early
country radio. (RP)
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Legacy 473 |
Traditional Banjo Music Of The Ozarks |
$9.98 |
17 tracks of undetermined origin though it's mostly city
based folks playing traditional music - Mike Seeger, Billy Cheatwood, Art
Podell, Joe Maphis, Jim Helms, David Lindley, Roger McGuinn, Eric Weissberg
& Marshall Brickman and others.
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Old Hat 1001 |
Music From The Lost Provinces, 1927-31 |
$15.98 |
Wonderful collection of old time country music from Ashe
County, North Carolina and vicinity. Excellent sound and
excellent 24 page booklet with detailed notes and rare photos.
FRANK BLEVINS AND HIS TAR HEEL RATTLERS: Don't Get Trouble in Your Mind/ Fly
Around My Pretty Little Miss/ I've Got No Honey Babe Now/ Nine Pound Hammer/
Old Aunt Betsy/ Sally Ann/ THE CAROLINA NIGHT HAWKS: Governor Al Smith for
President/ GRAYSON AND WHITTER: Handsome Molly/ I've Always Been A Rambler/
Short Life of Trouble/ Train 45/ THE HILL BILLIES: Cluck Old Hen/ THE NORTH
CAROLINA RIDGE RUNNERS: Be Kind to a Man When He's Down/ Nobody's Darling/
JACK REEDY & HIS WALKER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND: Chinese Breakdown/ Ground Hog/
SMYTH COUNTY RAMBLERS: My Name is Ticklish Reuben/ Way Down in Alabama/
EPHRAIM WOODIE AND THE HENPECKED HUSBANDS: Last Gold Dollar/ The Fatal
Courtship/ THE WOODIE BROTHERS: Chased Old Satan Through the Door/ Likes
Likker Better Than Me
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