Music From Fanny Blackburn’s 78 Collection

The Edge Of AmericanaMusic From Fanny Blackburn’s 78 Collection

An example of Fannie's Montgomery Ward 78's.

Otto just returned from a Sunday spent listening to the 78's belonging to a SW VA woman named Fannie Blackburn's 78 collection. Born in 1902, she saved up 17 cents for each Montgomery Ward brand 78, which apparently took some time. 

Think about THAT the next time you oh so casually browse the internet for music. 

Enjoy!

JBOK

Artist / Song / Album / Label

Ola Belle Reed / My Donny, Where Have You Been So Long? / Ola Belle Reed & Family / Field Recorders Collective
Reno & Smiley / Signed, Sealed And Delivered / 20 Bluegrass Originals / Deluxe

Monroe Brothers / My Dear Old Southern Home / What Would You Give In Exchange For Your Soul? / Rounder
Bill Monroe & his Blue Grass Boys / Columbus Stockade Blues / 1943-44 Opry Acetates found by John Tidwell (Silver Spring, MD) / None
DeFord Bailey / Davidson County Blues / Harmonica Blues / ABM
Al Miller / I Found Your Key-Hole / Al Miller 1927-1936 / Document

JE Mainer / Just As The Sun Went Down / The Early Years / JSP
The Bailes Brothers / We’re Living In The Last Days Now / Oh So Many Years / Bear Family
Arthur Smith Trio / Sugar Tree Stomp / Nashville: The Early String Bands / County
Blue Sky Boys / Are You from Dixie / 1927-38 Bluegrass Bonanza: String Band Roots / Proper
Rosalie Sorrels / The Wreck of the Old Number 9 / Classic Railroad Songs / Smithsonian Folkways

Charley Patton / Shake It and Break It (But Don’t Let It Fall Mama) / Charley Patton: The Complete Recorded Works in Chronological / Third Man
Roy Harvey & Leonard Copeland / Back To The Blue Ridge / Old Time Mountain Guitar / County
Kentucky Colonels / A Wound Time Can’t Erase / 1965 Live in LA / Rural Rhythm
Doc Watson / There’s More Pretty Girls Than One / The Vanguard Years / Vanguard
Norman Edmonds and the Old Timers / Johnny Get Your Haircut / WBOB Radio Vol.05 / None

The Carter Family / Foggy Mountain Top / The Carter Family: 1927-1934 / JSP
Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / Just Another Broken Heart / 1965-73 Pioneering Women of Bluegrass / Folkways
Jimmy Martin / Beautiful Brown Eyes / Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys / Bear Family
Bailey Brothers / Beautiful Brown Eyes / 1944-50 Bluegrass Bonanza: Early Bluegrass / Proper
Ross County Farmers / Way Out There / The Ross County Farmers: 1948 Recordings / Field Recorders Collective

Red Rector / Whistling Rufus / Red Rector & Friends / Revonah
Foghorn Stringband / Roving Gambler / Rattlesnake Tidal Wave / Nettwerk
Riley Puckett / Long Tongue Woman / Country Music Pioneer vol 1 / JSP
The Hall Brothers / Wrong Road / My Rough And Rowdy Ways / Yazoo
Rooster Ruley / Shenandoah Breakdown / Junkyard Jam Session / Self
The Georgia Yellow Hammers / G Rag / Folks, He Sure Do Pull Some Bow! / Old Hat
Red Allen / The Little Girl And The Dreadful Snake / The Folkways Years 1964 – 1983 / Folkways

Henry Whitter / Rain Crow Bill / The Bristol Sessions / Bear Family
Fields Ward And The Grayson County Railsplitters / Watch And Pray / Juneberry 78s / http://www.juneberry78s.com
Dixon Brothers / Greenback Dollar, Pt 2 / Blessing to the People / Bear Family
Rutherford & Foster / Let Her Go I’ll Meet Her / Wink The Other Eye / Rounder
JE Mainer / Hopalong Peter / The Early Years / JSP
Del McCoury / Who Showed Who / Sawmill / Rebel
Bill Monroe / When The Bees Are In The Hive / Bluegrass 1959-1969 / Bear Family

E.C. Ball and the Friendly Gospel Singers / John Saw a Great City / Old Dominion label 45 / Old Dominion
The Carter Family / East Virginia Blues / The Carter Family: 1927-1934 / JSP
Morgan Sexton / Old Grey Beard / Shady Grove / Appalshop

Walter Williams / Pass Around the Bottle / Kentucky Mountain Music / Yazoo