Cool Songs for Hot Days

The Edge Of AmericanaCool Songs for Hot Days

It's hot, did you notice?  We know it's gauche to talk about the weather, so tonight it's all songs of summertime activities – swimming, bbq, fishing, boating, and more!

Enjoy!

JBOK

Artist / Song / Album / Label

John Hartford / Long Hot Summer Days / Mark Twang / Flying Fish
Eller Brothers / Cindy In The Summer Time / Art of Field Recording, Volume 2: Survey / Dust To Digital
Bela Fleck / Texas Barbeque / Crossing The Tracks / Rounder

Jimmie Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys / Home Run Man / Tennessee / Decca
Leake County Revelers / I’m Gwine Back To Dixie / Leake County Revelers Vol. 2 (1929-1930) / Document
Polk Miller / Watermelon Party / Polk Miller & His Old South Quartette / Tomkins Square
Asylum Street Spankers / Colonel Josh’s BBQ / Hot Lunch / Yellow Dog
The Monroe Brothers / Watermelon Hangin’ On The Vine / The Monroe Brothers Complete RCA Victor Bluebird Recordings, / Soundmark
Jimmie Rodgers / Peach Pickin’ Time Down In Georgia / Roll Along, Kentucky Moon (The Blue Yodeler) / Country Classics
Tommy Jarrell with Paul Brown & Mike Seeger / Arkansas Traveler / Tommy Jarrell, Volume 1 / County

Lowe Stokes / Sailing on the Robert E Lee / 1001 Fiddle Tunes Vol. 1 / http://1001tunes.com
George Formby / Swimmin’ With The Wimmin’ / With My Little Ukulele in My Hand 3 / Proper
Fred Van Eps / Chinese Picnic and Oriental Dance / 5 String Banjo 1909-17 / BACM
Fiddlin’ John Carson / Corn Licker & Barbecue – Part 1 / Volume 5: 1927 – 1929 / Document
Mississippi Jook Band / Barbecue Bust / When The Levee Breaks: Mississippi Blues Rare Cuts, 1926 – 1941, Disc 4 / JSP
Jethro Burns / Up A Lazy River / Bye Bye Blues / Acoustic Disc

Bascom Lamar Lunsford / Mole in the Ground / Smokey Mountain Ballads / Folkways
Tom Darby & Jimmie Tarlton / Maple On The Hill / On The Banks Of A Lonely River / County
Dori Freeman / Whipperwill is Whispering Goodnight / Porchlight / Self
The Two Man Gentlemen Band / Pool Party / Two At A Time / Serious Business
Natalie Merchant / Bleezer’s Ice-Cream / Leave Your Sleep / Nonesuch
John Ashby / 03 Broad Run Picnic / Old Virginia Fiddling / County

Kirk Sutphin & Riley Baugus / Evening Star Waltz / Long-Time Piedmont Pals / Self
Bill Monroe / Did You Ever Go Sailing / 1939-46 Prince Albert Acetates / None
Henry Thomas / Fishing Blues / Anthology of American Folk Music, Volume 3B: Songs / Smithsonian Folkways
Reno & Smiley / Where The Old Red River Flows / Live at Sunset Park, West Grove PA September 9, 1962 / Self
Woody Guthrie / Riding In My Car (Car Song) / Songs to Grow On / Smithsonian Folkways
Dock Boggs / Bright Sunny South / Dock Boggs / Smithsonian Folkways
Calvin Cole & The Rock Creek Ramblers / June Apple / Calvin Cole – Fancy Gap Banjo / Field Recorders Collective

Lowe Stokes / Sailin’ Down The Chesapeake Bay / Lowe Stokes Vol. 1 (1927-1930) / Document
The Staples Singers / Uncloudy Day / Uncloudy Day / Mississippi
Sam & Kirk McGee / Chittlin’ Cookin’ Time In Cheatham County / Opry Old Timers / Starday
The Blue Sky Boys / When I Take My Vacation in Heaven / The Blue Sky Boys / Rounder Select
Georgia Yellow Hammers / Peaches Down In Georgia / Roots of American Fiddle Music – Volume 3 / http://1001tunes.com
Bill Chitwood & His Georgia Mountaineers / Fourth of July At The Country Fair / Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time and End Time Music, 1923 – 1936 / Tomkins Square
Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers / Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight / 1001 Fiddle Tunes Vol. 1 / http://1001tunes.com

Adam Steffey / Garfield’s Blackberry Blossom / New Primitive / Organic
Frank Jenkins / Sunny Home In Dixie / Roots of American Fiddle Music – Volume 3 / http://1001tunes.com

Wayne Henderson / Take Me Out to the Ballgame / Les Pik / Flying Fish
Red Rector / Down Where The Watermelons Grow / Red Rector & Friends / Revonah