NEWSLETTER #147
JSP BOX SETS - COUNTRY, BLUEGRASS & OLD TIMEY
Charlie Poole -> Bob
Wills
| CHARLIE POOLE |
JSP JSPCD 7734 |
With The North Carolina Ramblers And The
Highlanders |
● CD $28.98 |
4 CDs, 96 tracks, essential
Although there are some flaws in this collection it is still an absolutely
indispensible set featuring recordings by one of the finest and most popular
string bands of the late 20s led by singer and banjo player Charlie Poole.
Poole had a distinctive vocal style and played banjo in a precise three
finger style that owed more to minstrel shows and ragtime than to the more
raucous style of other old time banjo players and was to prove an influence
on later generations of banjo player and was a forerunner of Scruggs style
bluegrass banjo. The group usually worked as a trio and Poole was joined by
fine fiddlers Poser Rorer, Lonnie Austin or Odell Smith and except for the
groups first session in July 25th which featured guitarist Norman Woodlieff
their regular guitarist was Roy Harvey and the group adopted the name the
North Carolina Ramblers. The sound of the group was a joy - more melodic and
nuanced than many of their contemporaries and their material included
traditional ballads (some with their origins in English and Irish songs),
minstrel songs, old popular songs, sentimental songs and more. Their first
session yielded their wonderful Don't Led You Deal Go Down which sold
over 100,000 copies and put their name on the map. Roy Harvey also recorded
as leader of the North Carolina Ramblers sometimes with Poole on banjo and
at other times with Bob Hoke on banjo-mandolin and many of these tracks are
featured here though one six track session from February 1928 is
misidentified as by Poole and The North Carolina Ramblers when he isn't
present at all. Many of the groups songs became old time and later bluegrass
standards and includes such gems as The Girl I Left In Sunny Tennessee/
White House Blues/ Sweet Sunny South/ He Rambled/ Coon From Tennessee/ If I
Lose, I Don't Care/ Take A Drink On Me/ Baltimore Fire/ If The River Was
Whiskey (a great variation on Hesitatin' Blues)/ Hungry Hash
House and many more. It also includes the delightful four part musical/
comedy skit A Trip To New York issued as by The Alleghany Highlanders
and a couple of banjo solos by Poole accompanied by Roy Harvey's sister Lucy
Terry. Sound quality is generally excellent though a few tracks are from
worn 78s. The only real drawback is that it doesn't quite include everything
Poole recorded as a couple of 78s are not included though they are in the
hands of collectors and could have been used if a little more effort had
been taken by JSP. It's also puzzling that they didn't include a couple of
unissued tracks that have been reissued on LP and CD. Still apart from those
minor omissions this is a truly stellar and inspiring collection of old time
country music. (FS)
CHARLIE POOLE: A Home Without Babies/ A Letter To My
Mother/ A Letter To My Mother/ A Trip To New York Part 1/ A Trip To New York
Part 2/ A Trip To New York Part 3/ A Trip To New York Part 4/ A Young Boy
Left His Home One Day/ As We Parted At The Gate/ Baltimore Fire/ Bill Mason/
Bill Mason/ Blue Eyes/ Budded Rose/ Budded Roses/ Can I Sleep In Your Barn
Tonight Mister/ Don't Let Your Deal Go Down/ Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
Blues/ Falling By The Wayside/ Flop Eared Mule/ Flyin' Clouds/ Forks Of
Sandy/ From Tennessee/ George Collins/ Give My Love To Nell/ Goodbye Booze/
Goodbye Mary Dear/ Goodbye Sweet Liza Jane/ He Rambled/ Home Without Love/
Honeysuckle/ Hungry Hash House/ Husband And Wife Were Angry One Night/ I
Cannot Call Her Mother/ I Once Loved A Sailor/ I'll Be There Mary Dear/ I'm
Glad I'm Married/ If I Lose, I Don't Care/ If The River Was Whiskey/ It's
Movin' Day/ Jealous Mary/ Just Keep Waiting Till The Good Time Comes/ Kitty
Blye/ Leaving Dear Old Ireland/ Leaving Home/ Look Before You Leap/
Lynchburg Town/ May I Sleep In Your Barn/ Milwaukee Blues/ Monkey On A
String/ Mountain Reel/ My Gypsy Girl/ My Mother And My Sweetheart/ My Wife
Went Away And Left Me/ Old And Only In The Way/ On The Streets Of Glory/
Pearl Bryant/ Please Papa Come Home/ Poor Little Joe/ Ragtime Annie/
Ramblin' Blues/ Richmond Square/ San Antonio/ She Is Only A Bird In A Gilded
Cage/ Shootin' Creek/ Southern Medley/ Sunset March/ Sweet Sefrain/ Sweet
Sixteen/ Sweet Sunny South/ Sweet Sunny South/ Take A Drink On Me/ Take Back
The Ring/ Take Me Back To Home And Mother/ Tennessee Blues/ The Bluefield
Murder/ The Brave Engineer/ The Girl I Left In Sunny Tennessee/ The
Highwayman/ The Letter That Never Came/ The Man That Rode The Mule Around
The World/ The Old Clay Pipe/ The Only Girl I Ever Loved/ There'll Come A
Time/ There'll Come A Time/ There's A Mother Old And Gray Who Needs Me Now/
Too Young To Marry/ Took My Gal A Walkin'/ Under The Double Eagle/ We Will
Outshine The Sun/ What Is Home Without Babies/ White House Blues/ Wild
Horse/ Wreck Of The Virginian No.3/ You Ain't Talkin' To Me
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| JIMMIE RODGERS |
JSP 7704 |
Classic Recordings, 1927-1933 |
● CD $28.98 |
5 CDs, 109 tracks, essential
Jimmie Rodgers was one of the most influential of all country musicians - he
was the first big country recording star, and without him the music today
would be much different. Gene Autry, Jimmie Davis, Hank Snow, and Ernest
Tubb began their careers as Rodgers imitators, and he influenced Bill
Monroe, Bob Wills, Doc Watson, Merle Haggard, Lefty Frizzell and many others
in style and repertoire. Jimmie's genius lay in his ability to combine
disparate familiar musical elements into something uniquely his. His droll,
languid vocals owed much to the country blues of his native Mississippi, but
also contained elements of "classic" blues vocal style, along with hints of
vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley. He also recorded with Hawaiian guitarists,
Louis Armstrong, The Carter Family, fiddler Clayton McMichen, Louisville Jug
Band, and sweet jazz bands. And most of it worked. Jimmie was fond of parlor
ballads about home and mother, and ersatz cowboy songs such as Prairie
Lullaby/ Yodeling Cowboy/ Cowhand's Last Ride/ When The Cactus Is In Bloom.
His trademark blue yodels were unique; many, such as Blue Yodel #8
(Muleskinner Blues)/ #3 ("She's long, she's tall, she's 6 feet from the
ground...") or Last Blue Yodel ("These women make a fool out of
me...") have entered the fabric of American music. Jimmie's railroading
career was reflected in Waiting For A Train/ Hobo Bill's Last Ride/ Train
Whistle Blues/ Southern Cannonball. His versions of Frankie And
Johnny/ He's In The Jailhouse Now can be traced back to blues songs.
Mother, The Queen Of My Heart is the quintessential mother song; its
sentimentality is so cloying that it is perfect in a way. All these classics
and more are here. If you can afford it the way to go is Bear Family's
glorious six CD set (BCD 15540 - $109.98) which not only includes everything
here but also some alternate takes, an unissued song, his movie soundtrack
and overdubbed versions of some of the songs as well as a gorgeous 60 page
LP sized book with notes by Rodgers biographer Nolan Porterfield and load of
photos and other memorabilia. If that is too much this set is a more than
satisfactory alternative. (RP/FS)
JIMMIE RODGERS: A Drunkard's Child/ Anniversary Blue
Yodel/ Any Old Time/ Away Out On The Mountain/ Ben Dewberry's Final Run/
Blue Yodel/ Blue Yodel #10/ Blue Yodel #11/ Blue Yodel #12/ Blue Yodel #2/
Blue Yodel #3/ Blue Yodel #4/ Blue Yodel #5/ Blue Yodel #6/ Blue Yodel #8/
Blue Yodel #9/ Daddy And Home/ Dear Old Sunny South By The Sea/ Desert
Blues/ Down The Old Road To Home/ Dreaming With Tears In My Eyes/ Everyboy
Does It In Hawaii/ For the Sake Of Days Gone By/ Frankie And Johnnie/
Gambling Bar Room Blues/ Gambling Polka Dot Blues/ High Powered Mama/ Hobo
Bill's Last Ride/ Hobo's Meditation/ Home Call/ I'm Free (From The Chain
Gang Now)/ I'm Lonely And Blue/ I'm Lonesome Too/ I'm Sorry We Met/ I've
Only Loved Three Women/ I've Ranged, I've Roamed, I've Traveled/ In The
Hills Of Tennessee/ In The Jailhouse Now/ In The Jailhouse Now #2/ Jimmie
Rodgers Visits The Carter Family/ Jimmie Rodges's Last Blue Yodel/ Jimmie
The Kid/ Jimmie's Mean Mama Blues/ Let Me Be Your Sidetrack/ Long Tall Mama
Blues/ Looking For A New Mama/ Lullaby Yodel/ Memphis Yodel/ Miss The
Mississippi & You/ Mississipi Delta Blues/ Mississippi Moon/ Mississippi
River Blues/ Moonlight And Skies/ Mother Was A Lady/ Mother, The Queen Of My
Heart/ My Blue Eyed Jane/ My Carolina Sunshine Girl/ My Good Gal's Gone
Blues/ My Little Lady/ My Little Old Home Down In New Orleans/ My Old Pal/
My Rough And Rowdy Ways/ Never No Mo' Blues/ Ninety Nine Years Blues/ No
Hard Times/ Nobody Knows But Me/ Old Love Leters/ Old Pal Of My Heart/ Peach
Pickin' Time In Georgia/ Pistol Packin' Papa/ Prairie Lullaby/ Rock All Our
Babies To Sleep/ Roll Along Kentucky Moon/ She Was Happy Till She Met You/
Sleep, Baby Sleep/ Somewhere Down Below The Mason Dixon Line/ Southern
Cannon Ball/ Sweet Mama Hurry Home/ TB Blues/ Take Me Back Again/ Texas
Blues/ That's Why I'm Blue/ The Brakeman's Blues/ The Carter Family And
Jimmie Rodgers In Texas/ The Cowhand's Last Ride/ The Land Of My Boyhood
Dreams/ The Mystery Of Number Five/ The One Rose/ The Sailor's Plea/ The
Soldier's Sweetheart/ The Wonderful City/ The Yodeling Ranger/ Those
Gambler's Blues/ Train Whistle Blues/ Travelin' Blues/ Treasures Untold/
Tuck Away My Lonesome Blues/ Waiting For A Train/ What Is It?/ When The
Cactus Is In Bloom/ Whippin' That Old TB/ Whisper Your Mother's Name/ Why
Did You Give Me Your Love/ Why Should I Be Lonely/ Why There's A Tear In My
Eye/ Years Ago/ Yodeling Cowboy/ Yodeling My Way Back Home/ You And My Old
Guitar
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JSP JSPCD 7731 |
Bluegrass - Classic Recordings Remastered |
● CD $28.98 |
Four CD set with 96 tracks. Two-thirds of of the tracks
feature bluegrass recordings from the 1940s and early 50s and the rest
features old time country music from the 30s and early 40s that forms the
roots of country music. Includes Jerry & Sky, Whitey & Hogan,
Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper, Frank Wakefield & Buster Turner, Connie &
Babe, J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers, The Morris Brothers and others.
HOBO JACK ADKINS: Going Back To Old Kentucky/ You Have
Left Me Memories/ THE BAILEY BROTHERS & THE HAPPY VLLEY BOYS: Rattlesnake
Daddy/ RED BELCHER & THE KENTUCKY RIDGERUNNERS: Kentucky Is Only A Dream/
RED BELCHER & THE KENTUCKY RIDGERUNNRS: The Old Grey Goose/ BUSTER CARTER &
PRESTON YOUNG: I'll Roll In My Baby's Arms/ MARVIN COBB, FRANK WAKEFIELD &
THE CHAIN MOUNTA: New Campdown Races/ THE COLWELL BROTHERS: Blue Bonnet
Lane/ CONNIE & BABE: How Will The Flowers Bloom/ Roll On Blues/ The Last
Love Letter/ The Lonely Waltz/ STONEY COOPER & WILMA LEE: This World Can't
Stand Long/ Wicked Path Of Sin/ JIM EANES & HIS SHENANDOAH VALLEY BOYS: Blue
Yodel #1/ Curtains Of Sorrow/ Down Among The Budded Roses/ Florida Blues/
Little Brown Hand/ Missing In Action/ Tomorrow May Be Different/ ROY HALL &
HIS BLUE RIDGE ENTERTAINERS: Can You Forgive/ Come Back Little Pal/ Don't
Let Your Sweet Love Die/ I Wonder Where You Are Tonight/ Little Sweetheart
Come And Kiss Me/ Lonesome Dove/ Loving You Too Well/ Natural Bridge Blues/
Polecat Blues/ The Best Of Friends Must Part Sometime/ Wabash Cannonball/
Where The Roses Never Fade/ ’neath The Bridge At The Foot Of The Hill/ THE
HALL BROTHERS: Little Mohee/ The Wrong Road/ THE HAMM BROTHERS: He Saved My
Soul/ FRANK HUNTER & HIS BLACK MOUNTAIN BOYS: Long Time ,no See/ JERRY &
SKY: Orange Blossom Secial/ HACK JOHNSON & HIS TENNESSEANS: Home Sweet Home/
RONNIE KNITTEL & HOLSTON VALLEY RAMBLERS: Holston Valley Breakdown/ PEE WEE
LAMBERT & CURLEY PARKER: Just A Memory/ Weary Hobo/ THE LILLY BROTHERS: They
Sleep Together Now At Rest/ What Are They Doing In Heaven Today/ THE
LONESOME PINE FIDDLERS: Don't Forget Me/ I'm Left Alone/ Lonesome Pine
Breakdown/ Lonesome, Sad And Blue/ Nobody Cares (not Even You)/ Pain In My
Heart/ Twenty One Years/ Will I Meet Mother In Heaven?/ You Broke Your
Promise/ TED LUNDY: I've Never Been So Lonesome/ WADE MAINER & THE SONS OF
THE MOUNTAINEERS: Don't Leave Me Alone/ I Won't Be Worried/ Lonely Tombs/
Old Reuben/ Poor Drunkard's Dream/ Rambling Boy/ Ramshackle Shack/ Short
Life And It's Trouble/ Wild Bill Jones/ You May Forsake Me/ J.E. MAINER'S
MOUNTAINEERS: Blue Ridge Mountain Blues/ Concord Rag/ Don't Get Trouble In
Your Mind/ Drunkard's Hiccoughs/ Johnson's Old Grey Mule/ Maple On The Hill/
Seven And A Half/ THE MORRIS BROTHERS: Salty Dog Blues/ SONNY OSBORNE: I'm
On My Way To The Old Home/ BUSTER PACK & HIS LONESOME PINE BOYS: Better Late
Than Never/ BYRON PARKER & HIS MOUNTAINEERS: C & N.w. Railroad Blues/
Carroll County Blues/ Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar/ Married Life Blues/ Up
Jumped The Devil/ We Shall Rise/ REBE & RABE: Helen/ Mother, Sweet Mother/
JOHN REEDY & HIS STONE MOUNTAIN BOYS: Somebody Touched Me/ THE ROUSE
BROTHERS: Orange Blossom Special/ THE SAUCEMAN BROTHERS: Hallelujah, We
Shall Rise/ THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY TRIO: Let Me Rest (at The End Of My
Journey)/ L.C. SMITH, RALPH MAYO & THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAI: Radio Boogie/ TOBY
STROUD & THE BLUE MOUNTAIN BOYS: Jesse James/ Tragic Romance/ CECIL SURRATT
& HIS WEST VIRGINIA RAMBLERS: The Bright Crystal Sea/ Where Will You Spend
Eternity/ FRANK WAKEFIELD & BUSTER TURNER: Leave Well Enough Alone/ You're
The One (i See In My Dreams)/ WHITEY & HOGAN: Jesse James/ PHEBEL WRIGHT:
Lint Head Stomp
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JSP JSPCD 7740 |
Mountain Blues, 1927-1938: Blues, Ballads &
String Band |
● CD $28.98 |
Four CDs, 100 tracks, essential
Since the 60s we tend to associate "white blues" with young white performers
attempting to emulate the style and songs of their idolized African American
performers. In earlier times it was different with an interchange of musical
ideas between black and white performers and white hillbilly performers
would borrow musical ideas from black performers (and vice versa) but the
resulting music was still pure hillbilly and what we have on this wonderful
collection is a hundred different variations on the blues as performed by
white country performers. There are a couple of examples direct borrowing of
black blues songs - Larry Hensley's Matchbox Blues has the lyrics and
arrangement of the Blind Lemon Jefferson and Dick Justice's Cocaine
sound very much like the Luke Jordan version but these are the exception
rather than the rule. We have solo blues with guitar, string band
instrumentals, harmonica blues, talking blues, topical songs, high lonesome
blues and more. The music has been well chosen and includes a lot of tracks
not available elsewhere. Sound is generally fine and there are brief notes
and full discographical info. Superb music. (FS)
CLARENCE ASHLEY: Dark Holler Blues/ Haunted Road Blues/
Bay Rum Blues/ East Virginia Blues/ ASHLEY'S MELODY MEN: Bath House Blues/ I
Never Felt So Blue/ GENE AUTRY: Black Bottom Blues/ Do Right Daddy Blues/ Do
Right Daddy Blues #2/ The Rheumatism Blues/ I'm Blue And Lonesome/ BOWMAN
SISTERS: Old Lonesome Blues/ HERSHAL BROWN: New Talking Blues/ BUCK MOUNTAIN
BAND: Don't let The Blues Get You Down/ Yodeling Blues/ SAMANTHA BUMGARNER:
The Worried Blues/ BURNETT & RUTHERFORD: All Night Long Blues/ BUSTER &
JACK: Cross Tie Blues/ Pouring Down Blues/ HOMER CALLAHAN: Rattle Snake
Daddy/ CALLAHAN BROTHERs: Brown's Ferry Blues #2/ CAROLINA BUDDIES:
Mistreated Blues/ CAROLINA TAR HEELS: Apron String Blues/ Farm Girl Blues/ I
Don't Like The Blues No How/ CARROLL COUNTY REVELLERS: Georgia Wobble Blues/
THE CARVER BOYS: Sisco Harmonica Blues/ Wang Wang Harmonica Blues/ COBB &
UNDERWOOD: Black Snake Moan/ BILL COX: Georgia Brown Blues/ Got The Drunken
Blues/ Long Chain Charlie Blues/ N.R.A. Blues/ Kansas City Blues/ Oozlin'
Daddy Blues/ CROWDER BROTHERS: Depot Blues/ CHUCK DARLING: Blowing Blues/
WALTER DAVIS & GWEN FOSTER: Crooked Creek Blues/ DIXIE RAMBLERS: Franklin
County Blues/ DUPREE'S COUNTY BOYS: 12th Street Blues/ DYKES MAGIC CITY
TRIO: Huckleberry Bues/ GEORGE EDGIN'S CORN DODGER'S: Cold Penitentiary
Blues/ OSCAR FORD: Married Life Blues/ GWEN FOSTER: Wilkes County Blues/ THE
FREENY HARMONISERS: Travellin' Blues/ GEORGIA CRACKERS: Stockade Blues/
LONNIE GLOSSON: Arkansas hard Luck Blues/ CLARENCE GREEN: Johnson City
Blues/ LARRY HENSLEY: Match Box Blues/ PRINCE ALBERT HUNT: Blues In A
Bottle/ EARL JOHNSON & HIS DIXIE ENTERTAINERS: John Henry Blues/ DICK
JUSTICE: Brown Skin Blues/ Cocaine/ Old Black Dog/ JUSTICE & JARVIS: Poca
River Blues/ KENTUCKY RAMBLERS: Ginseng Blues/ KENTUCKY STRING TICKLERS:
Leaving Here Blues/ Stove Pipe Blues/ Tipple Blues/ UNCLE BUD LANDRESS: Rip
van Winkle Blues/ LEAKE COUNTY REVELLERS: Dry Town Blues/ Leake County
Blues/ ASA MARTIN & HIS KENTUCKY HILLBILLIES: Lonesome Broke And Weary/
FRANKIE MARVIN: Barber's Blues/ Dust Pan Blues/ MOATSVILLE STRING TICKLERS:
Moatsville Blues/ BYRD MOORE: Jake Leg Blues/ Killin' Blues/ PALMER McABEE:
Lost Boy Blues/ NARMOUR & SMITH: Carroll County Blues/ Tequila Hop Blues/
NATIONS BROTHERS: Bankhead Blues/ Railroad Blues/ PERRY COUNTY MUSIC MAKERS:
l'm Sad And Blues/ PRAIRIE RAMBLERS: Deep Elem Blues/ Go Easy Blues/
Kentucky Blues/ RILEY PUCKETT: I Get The Blues When It Rains/ Puckett's
Blues/ REAVES WHITE COUNTY RAMBLERS: Hesitation Blues/ Strawberry blues/
ROANE COUNTY RAMBLERS: Hometown Blues/ ROANOAKE JUG BAD: Triangle Blues/
FlDDLIN' DOC ROBERTS: Carroll County Blues/ Cumberland Blues/ RODGERS &
NICHOLSON: Worried Man Blues/ MIKE SHAW'S ALABAMA ENTERTAINERS: Tennessee
River Bottom Blues/ SLIM SMITH: Bread Line Blues/ SOUTH GEORGIA HIGHBALLERS:
Bibb County Grind/ Blue Grass Twist/ SPANGLER & PEARSON: Patrick County
Blues/ LOWE STOKES & HIS NORTH GEORGIANS: Bone Dry Blues/ Left All Alone
Again Blues/ Unexplained Blues/ THREE TOBACCO TAGS: Jersey Bull Blues/ Reno
Blues/ V.B Blues/ LEMUEL TURNER: Jake Bottle Blues/ Way Down Yonder Blues/
KYLE WOOTEN: Choking Blues
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JSP 7742 |
Western Swing & Country Jazz |
● CD $28.98 |
4 CDs, 100 tracks, 4 hours 34 min., highly recommend
A nice companion to recent Proper Records western swing box sets, this
collection favors the jazzy side of western swing, narrows the focus to the
1930s and, rather than representing dozens of artists with a cut or two,
features only 9 acts. Ocie Stockard & The Wanderers classic Decca session
from 1937 opens the proceedings in high style, featuring the sublime trumpet
work of Harry Palmer. Likewise, Roy Newman And His Boys' 15 sides stand out
as some of the finest work of the period. One of His Boys, Jim Boyd, is
worth his weight in guitar strings, and Holly Horton's clarinet efforts add
a pleasingly unique quality. Takin' Off features amplified steel
guitar played by Bob Dunn, whose Vagabonds are represented by 5 exciting
cuts. (Dunn is named by some as possibly the first to use an amplifier on
his guitar back when he recorded for Milton Brown.) One disc is entirely
reserved for Jimmie Revard and His Oklahoma Playboys. Rounding out the set
are Smoky Wood's Wood Chips, Cliff Bruner & His Texas Wanderers, Swift Jewel
Cowboys, and the Modern Mountaineers, whose Everybody's Truckin'
offer a potentially risque lyric (that's with a "T," right?) and a racially
insensitive chorus comment which must have seem harmless at the time. A
wonderful collection with superior sound. (JC)
CLIFF BRUNER & HIS TEXAS WANDERERS: Bring It On Home To
Grandma/ I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate/ Old Joe Turner Blues/
BOB DUNN'S VAGABONDS: Graveyard Blues/ Juke Box Rag/ Stompin' At The Honky
Tonk/ Wednesday Rag/ You Don't Know My Mind/ MODERN MOUNTAINEERS: Dirty Dog
Blues/ Drifting Along/ Everybody's Truckin'/ Gettin' That Low Down Swing/
Loud Mouth/ Mississippi Sandman/ Never Slept Last Night/ Sweet Little Girl
Of Mine/ Who Cryin' Sweet Papa Now/ You Got To Know How To Truck And Swing/
ROY NEWMAN AND HIS BOYS: 12th Street Rag/ Black And Blue/ Dinah/ Downhearted
Blues/ Drag Along Blues/ Garbage Man Blues/ Hot Dog Stomp/ Kansas City
Blues/ Match Box Blues/ Mississippi Mud/ My Baby Rocks Me/ Rhythm Is Our
Business/ Sadie Green (the Vamp Of New Orleans)/ Takin' Off/ Tin Roof Blues/
THE RANGE RIDERS: Five Foot Two, Eyes Of Blue/ How Come You Do Me Like You
Do/ It Don't Mean A Thing/ No Foolin'/ The Range Rider's Stomp/ Who Calls
You Sweet Mama Now?/ JIMMIE REVARD & HIS OKLAHOMA PLAYBOYS: After Hours
Blues/ At The End Of The Lane/ Big Daddy Blues/ Blues In The Bottle/ Bound
To Look Like A Monkey/ Cats Are Bad Luck/ Crafton Blues/ Daddy's Got The
Deep Elm Blues/ Dirty Dog/ Everything's Gonna Be Alright/ Fox And The
Hounds/ Holdin' The Sack/ I've Got Trouble In Mind/ It's A Long Way To
Tipperary/ Let Me Live And Love You/ Lose Your Blues And Laugh At Life/ My
Little Girl/ Oh! Swing It/ Old Waterfall/ Ride ’em Cowboy/ Riding Down The
Canyon/ Someone Else You Care For/ Thinking/ Triflin' Gal/ We Played A Game/
OCIE STOCKARD & THE WANDERERS: (bring It On Down) To My House/ Ain't Nobody
Truck Like You/ Black And Blue/ How Come (you Do Me Like You Do Do Do)/ Just
Blues/ Long Ago/ One Of Us Was Wrong/ Please Sing For Me (doodle-lee-doo)/
Same Thing All The Time/ There'll Be Some Changes Made/ Turn Your Lights
Down Low/ Wabash Blues/ What's The Matter?/ Why Shouldn't I?/ SWIFT JEWEL
COWBOYS: Bug Scuffle/ Chuck Wagon Swing/ Coney Island Washboard/ Dill Pickle
Rag/ Fan It/ Little Willie Green (from New Orleans)/ Memphis Blues/ Memphis
Oomph/ My Untrue Cowgirl/ Raggin' The Rails/ Rose Room/ Swingin' At The
Circle S/ Willie The Weeper/ You Got To Hi-de-ho (to Get Along With Me)/
SMOKY WOOD & HIS WOOD CHIPS: Carry Me Back To Virginny/ I'm Sorry/ Keep On
Truckin'/ Lonely Heart Of Mine/ Moonlight In Oklahoma/ Riding To Glory/
Wood's Travelling Blues/ Woodchip Blues
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JSP JSPCD 7751 |
Sounds Like Jimmie Rodgers - Stars That
Followed The Ma |
● CD $28.98 |
This four CD set with 100 tracks shows the influence of the
great Jimmie Rodgers featuring some of the many artists whose music was
influenced to a greater or lesser degree by Rodgers. Includes one whole CD
devoted to Gene Autry plus sides by W. Lee O'Daniel & His Hillbilly
Boys,Bill Carlisle, Buddy Jones, Stuart Hamblen, Ernest Tubb and others.
GENE AUTRY: Any Old Time/ Bear Cat Papa Blues/ Blue Yodel
#4 (california Blues)/ Blue Yodel #5/ Dallas County Jail Blues/ Frankie And
Johnny/ Gangster's Warning/ He's In The Jailhouse Now No .2/ High Powered
Mama/ High Steppin' Mama Blues/ Hobo Bill's Last Ride/ I'll Always Be A
Rambler/ I'm Atlanta Bound/ Jailhouse Blues/ Jimmie The Kid/ Life Of Jimmie
Rodgers/ Methodist Pie/ No One To Call Me Darling/ Pistol Packin' Papa/ T.b.
Blues/ That's How I Got My Start/ The Yodeling Hobo/ Travellin' Blues/
Waiting For A Train/ Whisper Your Mother's Name/ BILL BOYD & HIS COWBOY
RAMBLERS: Wind Swept Desert (desert Blues)/ BILL CARLISLE: Rattlin' Daddy/
CLIFF CARLISLE: The Cowboy's Dying Dream/ WILF CARTER (MONTANA SLIM): It's A
Cowboy's Night To Howl/ Rootin' Tootin' Cowboy/ The Old Barn Dance/ Yodeling
Hillbilly/ LEON CHAPPELEAR: Trifling Mama Blues/ BILL COX: A High Silk Hat
And A Gold Top Walking Cane/ Jackson County/ Lay My Head Beneath The Rose/
My Rough And Rowdy Ways/ When We Meet On The Beautiful Shore/ Where The Red,
Red Roses Grow/ FLEMING & TOWNSEND: Gonna Quit Drinkin' When I Die/ STUART
HAMBLEN: Wrong Keyhole/ BUDDY JONES: Dear Old Sunny South By The Sea/ Mean
Old Lonesome Blues/ Shreveport County Jail Blues/ The Women ('bout To Make A
Wreck Out Of Me)/ W. LEE O’DANIEL & HIS HILLBILLY BOYS: Tuck Away My
Lonesome Blues/ Yodeling Ranger/ DADDY JOHN LOVE: Cotton Mill Blues/ My
Little Red Ford/ RAMBLIN’ RED LOWERY: Bum On The Bum/ Ramblin' Red's Memphis
Yodel – No. 1/ FRANKIE MARVIN: I'm Gonna Yodel My Way To Heaven/ I'm In The
Jailhouse Now/ RILEY PUCKETT: 'way Out There/ Away Out On The Mountain/ Back
On The Texas Plains/ Peach Pickin' Time In Georgia/ Sleep Baby Sleep/ The
Moonshiner's Dream/ THE RHYTHM WRECKERS: Blue Yodel # 2 (my Lovin' Gal
Lucille)/ Never No Mo' Blues/ JIMMIE RODGERS: Jimmie Rodgers Medley – Part
1/ Jimmie Rodgers Medley – Part 2/ In The Jailhouse Now No. 2/ Peach Pickin'
Time Down In Georgia/ BILL SIMMONS: Rocky Mountain Blues/ Rocky Mountain
Sweetheart/ HANK SNOW: Polka Dot Blues/ The Hobo's Last Ride/ Wandering On/
THE TEXAS DRIFTER: At The End Of The Hobo's Trail/ Cowboy's Lullabye/
Fortunes Galore/ I Learned About Women From Her/ John Law And The Hobo/
Little Joe The Wrangler/ Miss Jackson Tennessee/ Mother-in-law Blues/
Railroad Boomer/ Reckless Tex/ Station H.o.b.o./ The Drifter – Part 1/ The
Drifter – Part 2/ The Hobo's Last Letter/ The Oklahoma Kid/ The Prisoner's
Song/ The Tramp's Mother/ The Wayward Son/ The Yodelin' Teacher/ ERNEST
TUBB: Married Man Blues/ Mean Old Bed Bug Blues/ My Mother Is Lonely/ Since
That Black Cat Crossed My Path/ The Last Thoughts Of Jimmie Rodgers/ The
Passing Of Jimmie Rodgers/ The Right Train To Heaven/ The T.b. Is Whipping
Me/ VAL & PETE: Yodel Blues – Part 1/ Yodel Blues – Part 2/ BOB WILLS & HIS
TEXAS PLAYBOYS: Never No More Hard Times Blues
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JSP JSPCD 7755 |
Mountain Gospel |
● CD $28.98 |
Four CDS, 100 tracks, essential
Fabulous collection of old time gospel music featuring 100 tracks recorded
between 1926 and 1941 - the first in depth look at this genre. It includes
the complete recordings of the fantastic singer/ guitarist Alfred G. Karnes
and the great and terrifically exciting Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Quartet
previously available on the now out of print Document CD "Kentucky Gospel."
It includes many sides not previously on CDs and the music is tremendously
varied including unaccompanied quartets, string bands, brother duets, sacred
harp groups and even some novelty gospel numbers. Apart from the
aforementioned Karnes and Phipps, highlights include 12 gorgeous sides by
Ernest V. Stoneman with harmony vocals accompanied by guitar, fiddle and
organ; three tracks by The Bush Family/ Brothers; a lovely duet by The
Anglin Twins featuring Jack Anglin who later became half of Johnnie & Jack,
the delightful Virginia Dandies featuring vocal by Walter Smith who also
appears as Kid Williams on two songs with fine steel guitar, groups led by
J.E. Mainer and his brother Wade, the terrific Bill Carlisle and much more.
Sound quality varies but generally excellent and there brief notes on many
of the artists and discographical information. This is one of those sets
you'll return to again and again because of the variety and everywhere you
look you'll find an obscure gem. (FS)
ALABAMA SACRED HARP SINGERS: Cuba/ I Belong To This Band/
Old Ship Of Zion/ THE ALCOA QUARTET: I'm Redeemed/ THE ANGLIN TWINS: Just
Inside The Pearly Gates/ THE AVONDALE MILLS QUARTET: Rejoicing All The Way/
BIRD'S KENTUCKY CORN CRACKERS: Crossed Old Jordan's Stream/ THE BLUE RIDGE
SINGERS: Glory Is Rising In My Soul/ I Want To Go There Don't You/ THE BUSH
BROTHERS: On The Glory Road/ When The Gates Of Glory Open/ THE BUSH FAMILY:
Music In My Soul/ BILL CARLISLE: He Will Be Your Savior Too/ The Heavenly
Train/ THE CAROLINA GOSPEL SINGERS: My Prayer/ THE CAROLINA RAMBLERS: I Got
A Home In The Beulah Land/ That Lonesome Valley/ THE CHUMBLER FAMILY:
Jacob's Ladder/ EDITH & SHERMAN COLLINS: I Can't Feel At Home In This World
Anymore/ THE COON CREEK GIRLS: Sowing On The Mountain/ PHIL & FRANK CROW:
Abraham/ PHIL CROW TRIO: I'm A Gittin' Ready To Go/ THE CROWDER BROTHERS:
The Sailing Ship/ DANIELS-DEASON SACRED HARP: Coronation/ THE DEAL FAMILY:
Everybody Will Be Happy Over There/ He Is Coming After Me/ Joy Among The
Angels/ ‘Twill Be All Glory Over There/ THE DIXIE REELERS: I Shall Not Be
Moved/ Lonesome Valley (Part 2)/ THE EVA QUARTETTE: Bringing In The Sheaves/
THE GARLAND BROTHERS & GRINSTEAD: Beautiful/ Just Over The River/ THE
GIDDENS SISTERS: I'm Going Home To Die No More/ MR & MRS R .N. GRISHAM:
We'll Be At Home Again/ ELDER G. P. HARRIS: My God The Spring Of All My
Joys/ GOLDEN. P. HARRIS: I'll Lead A Christian Life/ THE HILL BROTHERS WITH
WILLIE SIMMONS: I Am On My Way To Heaven/ REV. CALBERT HOLSTEIN & SISTER
BILLIE HOLSTEIN: Ring The Bells Of Freedom/ ALFRED G. KARNES: Called To The
Foreign Field/ Do Not Wait ‘Till I'm Laid Beneath The Clay/ I Am Bound For
The Promised Land/ The Days Of My Childhood Plays/ To The Work/ We Shall All
Be Reunited/ When They Ring The Golden Bells/ Where We'll Never Grow Old/
THE LAUREL (MISSISSIPPI) FIREMAN'S QUARTET: What A Change/ THE LUBBOCK TEXAS
QUARTET: Turn Away/ WADE MAINER & THE SONS OF THE MOUNTAINEERS: Home In The
Sky/ Life's Ev'nin' Sun/ Mansions In The Sky/ The Precious Jewel/ THE
MCCRAVY BROTHERS: Dip Me In The Golden Sea/ No Hidin' Place Down There/
Sometimes/ Sunrise/ MCVAY & JOHNSON: Ain't Gonna Lay My Armor Down/ I'll Be
Ready When The Bridegroom Comes/ THE MORRIS BROTHERS & EUNICE: Gabriel's
Trumpet/ J.E. MAINER’S MOUNTAINEERS: In A Little Village Churchyard/ Just
Over In The Gloryland/ Lights In The Valley/ This World Is Not My Home/
BYRON PARKER & HIS MOUNTAINEERS: He Is My Friend And Guide/ I Love My
Saviour/ ERNEST PHIPPS & HIS HOLINESS SINGERS – A LITTLE: A Little Talk With
Jesus/ ERNEST PHIPPS & HIS HOLINESS SINGERS – BRIGHT T: Bright Tomorrow/
ERNEST PHIPPS & HIS HOLINESS QUARTET: Do, Lord Remember Me/ Don't Grieve
After Me/ Happy In Prison/ ERNEST PHIPPS & HIS HOLINESS SINGERS – I KNOW T:
I Know That Jesus Set Me Free/ ERNEST PHIPPS & HIS HOLINESS QUARTET: I Want
To Go Where Jesus Is/ ERNEST PHIPPS & HIS HOLINESS SINGERS – IF THE L: If
The Light Has Gone Out In Your Soul/ ERNEST PHIPPS & HIS HOLINESS QUARTET:
Jesus Getting Us Ready For That Great Day/ Old Ship Of Zion/ ERNEST PHIPPS &
HIS HOLINESS SINGERS – SHINE ON: Shine On Me/ ERNEST PHIPPS & HIS HOLINESS
SINGERS – WENT UP: Went Up In The Clouds Of Heaven/ WILLIAM REXROAT'S CEDAR
CREST SINGERS: What Kind Of Shoes You Going To Wear/ RIDGEL'S FOUNTAIN
CITIANS: Hallelujah To The Lamb/ ROSWELL SACRED HARP: Odem/ THE SOUTHERN
MELODY BOYS: Tribulation Days/ ERNEST STONEMAN: Down To Jordan And Be Saved/
Going Down The Valley/ Hallelujah Side/ I Am Resolved/ I Remember Calvary/
Know My Name Is There/ No More Goodbyes/ Sweeping Through The Gates/ Tell
Mother I Will Meet Her/ The Sinless Summerland/ There's A Light Lit Up In
Galilee/ THE VAUGHAN QUARTET: In Steps Of Light/ THE VIRGINIA DANDIES: God's
Getting Worried/ There's A Beautiful City Called Heaven/ KID WILLIAMS: I'm
Glad I Counted The Cost/ When He Died He Got A Home In Hell/ WILLIAMS &
WILLIAMS: Though Your Sins Be Scarlet/ IRA & EUGENE YATES: You'll Never Go
To Heaven With Your Powder And Paint
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JSP 7757 |
Early Country Radio |
● CD $28.98 |
Four CDS, 79 tracks, essential
This is a fabulous collection of country music recorded between 1936 and
1951 for playing on the radio via the medium of transcription discs. There
is no discography of these unique recordings and a great many of them were
destroyed over the years under the terms of use of the transcription
companies so we should be grateful for what has survived. The track count
above is a little misleading since some of the tracks are complete shows
with several songs, commercial spiels, etc. The first two discs are devoted
to the great Carter Family who were one of the most prolific, popular and
influential country groups of the 20s and 30s and whose influence can be
heard today in many recordings. In the 30s a number of radio stations opened
in Mexico on the border with Texas and free of restrictions on power output
enforced by the FCC they proved a haven for commercial sponsors who often
used music to entertain the listeners in preparation for the commercial
pitch. In 1938, The Carter Family relocated to Del Rio, Texas and over the
next three years produced a vast number of radio transcriptions that were
broadcast over border stations XERA, XERF and XET. The first disc and part
of the second features recordings made between 1938 and 1941 for XERF and
the rest of the second disc features sides recorded in 1936 for Associated
Program Services (I believe the latter is also on
the Bear family 12 CD box set of The Carter Family).
Most of the songs are those they had recorded commercially for Victor,
Columbia and Decca along with a few not recorded commercially like a
splendid rendition of I'm Sitting On Top Of the World and there are
often subtle differences in the arrangements but the family's simple, direct
vocals and lovely instrumental accompaniments with Maybelle's superb guitar
work and Sarah's guitar or autoharp accompaniment
are always a delight. The third and fourth discs feature extensive
contributions from Bill Monroe's younger brother Charlie and his splendid
group The Kentucky Partners. Drawn from 1944 transcriptions, his band at the
time included brother Birch on fiddle, Lester Flatt on guitar and vocal, Tex
Isley on electric guitar and others including Helen Osborne (aka Katy Hill)
playing banjo on several cuts. Charlie's music has been overshadowed by his
brother Bill but his music is wonderful and compelling with great vocals and
instrumental work on a wide selection of old time material. You also get to
hear some commercials for Man-O-Ree laxative. Also featured on the box are
fine contributions from Roy Hall & His Blue Ridge Entertainers, J.E.
Mainer's Mountaineers, Cowboy Slim Rinehart and the set ends with a rare
1951 March Of Dimes show featuring the greatest of them all Hank Williams
with his Drifting Cowboys helping to raise money for children with infantile
paralysis. Hank and the group do three songs and Hank does some moving
pitches for the cause. One of songs features the horribly flat lead vocals
of Audrey but the rest is wonderful. Sound is generally fine and there are
informative notes by Pat Harrison. Some truly indispensable music. (FS)
THE CARTER FAMILY: A Distant Land To Roam/ Alabama Girls/
Are You Lonesome Tonight/ Bonnie Blue Eyes/ Broken Down Tramp/ Broken
Engagement/ Broken Hearted Lover/ Cannonball Blues/ Chinese Breakdown/
Cyclone Of Rye Cove/ Darling Daises/ Del Rio/ Diamonds In The Rough/
Diamonds In The Rough/ East Virgina Blues No.2/ Engine 143/ Goin' Back To
Texas/ Grave On The Green Hillside/ Happy Or Lonesome/ Homestead On The
Farm/ Honey Babe/ I Cannot Be Your Sweetheart/ I Never Loved But One/ I
Wouldn't Mind Dying/ I'm Sitting On Top Of The World/ I'm Working On A
Building/ Jealous Hearted Me/ Just A Few More Days/ Just Another Broken
Heart/ Keep On The Sunny Side/ Keep On The Sunny Side/ Keep On The Sunny
Side/ Kissing Is A Crime/ Leaning On The Everlasting Arms/ Lily Of The
Valley/ Little Darling Pal Of Mine/ Little Joe/ Little Log Cabin By The Sea/
Little Moses/ Lonesome Valley/ Lover's Farewell/ May I Sleep In Your Barn
Tonight Mister/ My Dixie Darling/ My Heart's Tonight In Texas/ My Heavenly
Home Is Bright And Fair/ My Native Home/ My Old Pal Of Yesterday/ No
Depression In Heaven/ Old Ladies Home/ One Little Word/ Room In Heaven For
Me/ Shall We Gather At The River/ Single Girl, Married Girl/ Soldier's
Sweetheart/ The Dying Soldier/ The Last Letter/ The Last Letter/ The Storms
Are On The Ocean/ There'll Be Joy, Joy, Joy/ What Would You Give In Exchange
For Your Soul/ When Our Lord Shall Come Again/ Where Shall I Be?/ Who's That
Knocking?/ Why There's A Tear In My Eye/ Your Mother Still Prays For You
Jack/ ROY HALL & HIS BLUE RIDGE ENTERTAINERS: Don't Cause Mother's Hair To
Turn Grey/ Fisher's Hornpipe/ Remember Me/ South Of The Border/ Take Me Back
To The Blue Ridge Mountains/ J.E. MAINER'S MOUNTAINEERS: Arkansas Traveller/
Blue Railroad Train/ Goodbye Maggie/ Indian River Hoedown/ Letter Edged In
Black/ My Old Pal Of Yesterday/ Shortenin' Bread/ CHARLIE MONROE & THE
KENTUCKY PARTNERS: An Empty Mansion/ Bile Them Cabbage Down/ Casey Jones/
Chicken Reel/ Closing Theme/ Daisy Mae/ Don't Let My Ramblin' Bother Your
Mind/ Down In Caroline/ Dying A Sinner's Death/ Every Time I Feel The
Spirit/ Going Around The World/ Gone And Left Me Blues/ Happy Day/ Heading
For Gloryland/ I Got A Gal Waitin' For Me/ I Know You'll Understand/ I Walk
Alone/ I've Made A Covenant With My Lord/ It's A Grand And Glorious Feeling/
Little Liza Jane/ Man-o-ree Commerical/ Seven More Days/ Sourwood Mountain/
That's The Love I Have For You/ Two Little Sweethearts/ Under The Old
Hickory Tree/ Valley Of Peace/ Walk That Long Lonesome Road/ Watermelon On
The Vine/ We'll Meet Again Sweetheart/ When It's Time For The Whippoorwill
To Sing/ White House Blues/ Who's Calling You Sweetheart Tonight/ You're
Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone/ COWBOY SLIM RINEHART: Alone And Lonesome/ Blue
Yodel No. 10/ I Want A Good Woman/ Left All Alone/ Lonesome Valley/ Memories
Of My Silver Haired Daddy/ Missouri Moon/ My Buddy/ Nobody's Darling/ On The
Mississippi Shore/ Ridin' Down That Old Texas Trail/ Trail Of The Great
Divide/ HANK WILLIAMS & HIS DRIFTING COWBOYS: Help Me Understand/ Moanin'
The Blues/ When God Dips His Love In My Heart
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JSP JSPCD 7774 |
Paramount Old Time Recordings |
● CD $28.98 |
Four CDS, 100 tracks, highly recommended
A terrific collection of old time music made for the Paramount record
company between 1925 and 1931 including a few Cajun items. Although best
known for its blues recordings, Paramount also recorded some superb old time
music and thanks to JSP's collaboration with legendary collector Joe Bussard
much of this is being made available for the first time since the 78s were
first issued. The first disc is devoted to string bands including the
fabulous Wilmer watts & The Lonely eagles, The McClung Brothers and Cleve
Chaffin, Red Brush Rowdies, Arthur Tanner (brother of Gid Tanner with the
great Earl Johnson on fiddle) and others. The
second disc features ballads and blues from Welling & McGhee (including two
very powerful labor songs) , Emry Arthur, The Gentry Brothers, Brock
Sisters, Rufus K. Stanley and others including slide guitarist Jack
Pennewell whose material was not included in the country discography but who
does a couple of fine instrumental blues. The third disc is devoted to
religious music with contributions from Welling & McGhee, Kentucky
Thorobreds, Joe Reed Family, Sid Hardreaker, etc. The final disc is a
miscellany including The Kentucky Ramblers, Soileau & Robin, Bertrand &
Gonzales, The Blue Ridge Highballers, etc. Considering the technical quality
of Paramount 78s the sound quality here is generally remarkably good though
a few tracks can be pretty rough going. (FS)
EMRY ARTHUR: George Collins/ Got Drunk And Got Married/ I
Tickled Her Under The Chin/ The Bluefield Murder/ The Married Man/ There’s A
Treasure Up In Heaven/ BERTRAND & PITRE: Cousinne Lilly/ BERTRAND &
GONZALES: La Delaisser/ Le Pond De Nante/ BERTRAND & PITRE: Miserable/
Upstairs/ Valse De Gueydan/ THE BLUE RIDGE HIGHBALLERS: Are You Angry With
Me Darling/ Julie Girl/ Red Wing/ THE BROCK SISTERS: Broadway Blues/ CHEZZ
CHASE: Log Cabin Blues/ DAVIS & NELSON: Death Is No More Than A Dream/ I
Shall Not Be Moved/ THE DIXIE CRACKERS: Bile Them Cabbage Down/ The Old Bell
Cow/ FAY & THE JAY WALKERS: Longing For Home/ Those Dark Eyes I Love So
Well/ THE FRUIT JAR GUZZLERS: C & O Whistle/ Cackling Hen/ Fox In The
Mountains/ Kentucky Bootleggers/ Old Joe Clark/ THE GENTRY BROTHERS: I Was
Born 4000 Years Ago/ Sara Jane/ GIBB’S STRING BAND: Chicken Reel/ Double
Eagle March/ In The Good Old Summertime/ I’m Going Crazy/ My Little Girl/
Swinging In The Lane/ ROY GONZALES: Anuiant Et Bleu/ Choctaw Beer Blues/ SID
HARKREADER: In The Sweet Bye And Bye/ The Land Where We Never Grow Old/ The
Old Rugged Cross/ Will There Be Any Stars In My Crown/ THE JOE REED FAMILY:
I Will Tell A Wondrous Story/ Jesus Is Getting Us Ready/ Little David Play
On Your Harp/ Two Little Children/ REX KELLY: Down By The Railroad Track/
THE KENTUCKY RAMBLERS: A Pretty White Rose/ Give Me That Old Time Religion/
Glory, Glory, Glory, Glory To The Lamb/ Good Cocaine (Mama Don’t Allow It)/
Little Mamie/ Some Mother’s Boy/ The Prisoners Sweetheart/ The Unfortunate
Breakman/ THE KENTUCKY THOROBREDS: He Cometh/ Room For Jesus/ This World Is
Not My Home/ ‘Til We Meet Again/ THE MCCLUNG BROTHERS & CLEVE CHAFFIN:
Alabama Jubilee/ Trail Blazer’s Favourite/ OWEN MILLS (DAVID MILLER): It’s
Hard To Be Shut Up In Prison/ JACK PENEWELL: Hen House Blues/ Memphis Blues/
THE RED BRUSH ROWDIES: Harbour Of Home Sweet Home/ Hatfield McCoy Feud/
Midnight Serenade/ Tuck Me In/ SOILEAU & ROBIN: La Valse De La Ru Canal/ Ma
Mauvais Fille/ RUFUS K. STANLEY: Down In Arkansas/ Only A Tramp/ Six Feet Of
Earth/ When The Whipoorwill Is Whispering Goodnight/ ARTHUR TANNER: Chickens
Don’t Roost Too High For Me/ Little Old Log Cabin In The Lane/ Show Me The
Way To Go Home/ Soldier’s Joy/ The Knoxville Girl/ When I Was Single My
Pockets Did Jingle/ Whoa Mule Whoa/ WILMER WATTS & THE LONELY EAGLES: Banjo
Sam/ Been On The Job Too Long/ Cotton Mill Blues/ Knocking Down Casey Jones/
Say Darling Won’t You Love Me/ WELLING & MC GHEE: Are You Washed In The
Blood/ WELLING & SHANNON: Brighten The Corner Where You Are/ WELLING &
MCGHEE: Busted Bank Blues/ WELLING & SHANNON: I’m A Child Of The King/
WELLING & MC GHEE: My Mother’s Bible/ WELLING & MCGHEE: Picture On The Wall/
The Marion Massacre/ The North CarolinaTextile Strike/ WELLING & MC GHEE:
What A Friend We Have In Jesus/ When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder/ GEORGE
WASHINGTON WHITE: Gambler’s Blues/ Idaho Joe
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JSP JSPCD 7780 |
Serenade In The Mountains - Early Old Time
Music |
● CD $28.98 |
Four CDs, 94 tracks, highly recommended
Another fabulous collection of old time music from JSP. This is a varied
selection with the first disc being mostly devoted to string bands like The
Scottdale String Band, Uncle Eck Dunford, Narmour & Smith, The Fox Chasers
and others including two two-sided comedy skits with music by Ernest
Stoneman & The Blue Ridge Cornshuckers. The second disc has an emphasis on
the banjo including solo vocal and banjo performers by the unique "Minstrel
Of The Appalachains" Bascom Lamar Lunsford and Dock Walsh - the latter
playing slide banjo on two cuts. There are several superb banjo
instrumentals from Hendley, Small & Whitter, Marion Underwood (the
magnificent Coal Creek March) and is rounded out with sides by the
superb Blue Ridge Mountain Entertainers (with a couple of skits) and
Carolina Tar Heels (the latter group featuring Walsh on banjo). The third
disc features artists from Georgia - many of them associated with The
Skillet Lickers including Ted Hawkins & Riley Puckett, Clayton McMichen &
Dan Hornsby, The Monroe County Bottle Tippers (doing the two part sketch
The Fiddlin' Bootleggers), McMichen & Puckett, The Hometown Boys,
Georgia Yellow Hammers and more. The final disc is mostly devoted to the
more urbane sounds of artists Carson Robinson, Vernon Dalhart and Frank
Luther performing solo and in various duet combinations. It opens with two
tracks from 1929 by The New Arkansas Travelers featuring guitar and two
harmonicas with vocals by an Englishmen performing what sounds like a couple
of English music hall songs. Apart from the unexpected English working class
accent these can certainly be considered old time country even though they
were omitted from the Country Music discography and they were issued by
Victor in the USA - intriguing! This disc ends with two tracks by the
splendid Otto Gray & His Oklahoma Cowboys and two from the Texas Rangers - a
western two part comedy sketch Dude Ranch Party. Lots of great music
with excellent sound and brief, informative notes by Pat Harrison. A number
of the tracks have been out on CD before but it's nice to have them gathered
together here and quite a few are making their first appearance on CD. (FS)
BUD BILLINGS: How To Make Love/ BUD & JOE BILLINGS:
Birmingham Jail/ Left My Gal In The Mountains/ BUD BILLINGS & CARSON
ROBISON: Oklahoma Charlie/ BUD BILLINGS TRIO: Settin‘ By The Fire/ THE BLUE
RIDGE MOUNTAIN SINGERS: Lorena/ THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAIN ENTERTAINERS: Over
At Tom‘s House/ THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAIN SINGERS: The Engineer‘s Last Run/
THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAIN ENTERTAINERS: The Fiddler‘s Contest/ THE CAROLINA
TAR HEELS: Her Name Was Hula Lou/ I‘m Going To Georgia/ My Mama Scolds Me
For Flirting/ Shanghai In China/ Somebody‘s Tall And Handsome/ There Ain‘t
No Use In Me Working So Hard/ Your Low Down Dirty Ways/ VERNON DALHART:
Ain‘t Gonna Grieve My Mind/ Get Away Old Man Get Away/ DALHART & ROBISON:
Little Green Valley/ Shine On Harvest Moon/ DALHART, ROBISON & HOOD: Oh
Susannah/ UNCLE ECK DUNFORD: Barney Mccoy/ Skip To My Lou My Darling/ The
Savingest Man On Earth/ What Will I Do When My Money Is All Gone/ THE FLOYD
COUNTY RAMBLERS: Granny Will Your Dog Bite?/ THE FOX CHASERS: Eighth Of
January/ THE GEORGIA ORGAN GRINDERS: Georgia Man/ THE GEORGIA YELLOW
HAMMERS: Black Annie/ Come Over And See Me Sometime/ Kiss Me Quick/ Warhorse
Game/ OTTO GRAY & HIS OKLAHOMA COWBOYS: Four Thousand Years Ago/ Who Stole
The Lock From The Hen House Door/ TED HAWKINS & RILEY PUCKETT: Down In The
Valley/ Hawkins Rag/ Rainbow Waltz/ Tokio Rag/ Zelma/ HENDLEY, SMALL &
WHITTER: Shuffle Feet Shuffle/ THE HOMETOWN BOYS: Cindy/ Hometown Rag/
Raccoon On A Rail/ BASCOM LAMAR LUNSFORD: Dry Bones/ I Wish I Was A Mole In
The Ground/ Italy/ Kidder Cole/ Little Turtle Dove/ Lost John Dean/ Lulu
Wall/ Mountain Dew/ “nol Pros” Nellie/ FRANK LUTHER TRIO: Swaller Tail Coat/
Ten Hours A Day - Six Days A Week/ CLAYTON MC MICHEN & DAN HORNSBY: The
Original Arkansas Traveler - Pts 1 & 2/ MCMICHEN & PUCKETT: Slim Gal/ THE
MONROE COUNTY BOTTLE TIPPERS: The Fiddlin‘ Bootleggers - Pts 1 & 2/ NARMOUR
& SMITH: Avalon Quick Step/ Captain George Has Your Money Come/ Mississippi
Breakdown/ THE NATIONS BROTHERS: Magnolia One-step/ Sales Tax Toddle/ THE
NEW ARKANSAS TRAVELLERS: Handy Man/ I Tickled ’em/ PIPERS GAP RAMBLERS: I
Ain‘t Nobody‘s Darling/ Yankee Doodle/ RILEY PUCKETT: Don‘t Let Your Deal Go
Down/ Everybody Works But Father/ Short Life Of Trouble/ The Boston Burglar/
Ragged But Right/ CARSON ROBISON: Everybody‘s Goin‘ But Me/ Wolf At The
Door/ An Evening On The C.r. Ranche - Pt 1/ An Evening On The C.r. Ranche -
Pt 2/ The Back Porch - Pt 1/ The Back Porch - Pt 2/ THE SCOTTDALE STRING
BAND: Carbolic Rag/ Japanese Breakdown/ Waitin‘ For The Robert E. Lee/ SMITH
& ALLGOOD: American And Spanish Fandango/ THE SOUTH GEORGIA HIGHBALLERS: Mr.
Johnson Turn Me Aloose/ THE SPOONEY FIVE: Chinese Rag/ My Little Girl/
ERNEST STONEMAN & THE BLUE RIDGE CORNSHUCKERS: A Serenade In The Mountains -
Pts 1 & 2/ Possum Trot School Exhibition - Pts 1 & 2/ GID TANNER & RILEY
PUCKETT: Three Nights Drunk/ THE TEXAS RANGERS: Dude Ranch Party - Pt 1/
Dude Ranch Party - Pt 2/ MARION UNDERWOOD: Coal Creek March/ DOCK WALSH: A
Precious Sweetheart From Me Has Gone/ Bathe In That Beautiful Pool/ Goin‘
Back To Jericho/ In The Pines
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JSP JSPCD 7770 |
King Of Western Swing, Vol. 1 |
● CD $28.98 |
The first in a series of four CD sets to reissue all the
issued recordings by Bob Wills. This first volume starts with his first two
sides from 1932 as a member of The Fort Worth Doughboys then proceeds to the
first session with his Texas Playboys in September, 1935 continuing through
to a session in April, 1940. It also includes his fiddle/ guitar duet from
1935 with Sleepy Johnson. Lots of great musicians in his band like Jesse
Ashlock, Leon McAuliffe, Al Stricklin, Johnnie Lee Wills, Cecil Brower,
Smoky Dacus and others along with the great vocals of Tommy Duncan. It
includes the first recordings of such classic tunes as Osage Stomp/
Maiden's Prayer/ Four Or Five Times/ Steel Guitar Rag/ Sunbonnet Sue/ I'm A
Ding Dong Daddy (From Dumas)/ San Antonio Rose/ Ida Red/ My Window Faces The
South and lots more - 100 tracks in all. All tracks are from the
collection of famed collector Joe Bussard and this set does not include any
of the unissued songs or alternate takes featured on the massive Bear Family
set (Bear Family 15933 - San Antonio Rose - 11 CDs plus DVD covering
everything through 1945 - $269.98) but is an inexpensive way to get all
those key early recordings of this country pioneer.
THE FORT WORTH DOUGHBOYS: Nancy Jane/ Sunbonnet Sue/ BOB
WILLS & HIS TEXAS PLAYBOYS: Alexander's Ragtime Band/ Back Home Again In
Indiana/ Basin Street Blues/ Beaumont Rag/ Black And Blue Rag/ Black Rider/
Bleeding Hearted Blues/ Blue Prelude/ Blue River/ Bluin' The Blues/ Bring It
On Down To My House/ Carolina In The Morning/ Corrine Corrina/ Dedicated To
You/ Don't Let The Deal Go Down/ Dreamy Eyes Waltz/ Drunkard's Blues/ Empty
Bed Blues/ Everybody Does It In Hawaii/ Fan It/ Four Or Five Times/ Gambling
Polka Dot Blues/ Get Along Home Cindy/ Get With It/ Good Old Oklahoma/ I
Ain't Got Nobody/ I Can't Be Satisfied/ I Can't Give You Anything But Love/
I Don't Lov'a Nobody/ I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate/ I Wonder If
You Feel The Way I Do/ I'm A Ding Dong Daddy From Dumas/ Ida Red/ If I Could
Bring Back My Buddy/ Keep Knocking (But You Can't Come In)/ Let Me Call You
Sweetheart (I'm In Love With You)/ Little Girl, Go Ask Your Mama/ Little Red
Head/ Liza Pull Down The Shades/ Lone Star Rag/ Loveless Love/ Maiden's
Prayer/ Mean Mama Blues/ Mexicali Rose/ Moonlight And Roses (Bring Mem'ries
Of You)/ My Window Faces The South/ Never No More Blues/ Never No More Hard
Times Blues/ No Matter How She Done It/ No Wonder/ Oh Lady Be Good/ Oh You
Beautiful Doll/ Oklahoma Rag/ Old Fashioned Love/ Oozlin' Daddy Blues/ Osage
Stomp/ Playboy Stomp/ Pray For The Lights To Go Out/ Prosperity Special/ Red
Hot Gal Of Mine/ Right Or Wrong/ Rosetta/ San Antonio Rose/ She's Killing
Me/ Silver Bells/ Sittin' On Top Of The World/ Sophisticated Hula/ Spanish
Two Step/ St. Louis Blues/ Steel Guitar Rag/ Steel Guitar Stomp/ Sugar
Blues/ Sunbonnet Sue/ Swing Blues #1/ Swing Blues #2/ That Brownskin Gal/
That's What I Like ‘Bout The South/ The Convict And The Rose/ The New St.
Louis Blues/ The Waltz You Saved For Me/ There's Going To Be A Party(For The
Old Folks)/ Tie Me To Your Apron Strings Again/ Too Busy/ Trouble In Mind/
Tulsa Stomp/ Twinkle Twinkle Little Star/ Wang Wang Blues/ Way Down Upon The
Swanee River/ Weary Of The Same Old Stuff/ What's The Matter With The Mill/
White Heat/ Who Walks In When I Walk Out/ Whoa Babe/ Yearning (Just For
You)/ You Don't Love Me (But I'll Always Care)/ You're Okay/ BOB WILLS &
SLEEPY JOHNSON: Harmony/ Smith's Reel
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