Getting Along with a Tune to Pass the Time
A swell list of sit back songs to enjoy, behold, and muse over during such solitary times!
Playlist
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Bobby Leecan & Robert Cooksey, “Royal Palm Special”
from Really the Blues? A Blues History
West Hill radio Archives - 2010
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Five Jinks, “Found A Baby Down Dixie Way”
from Black Secular Vocal Groups
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 1997
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Sister Dora Alexander, “Times Done Changed”
from Classic Sounds of New Orleans from Smithsonian Folkways
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2010
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Kentucky String Ticklers, “Crooked John”
from Kentucky Mountain Music (Classic Recordings of the 1920s & 1930s)
Yazoo
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Falcon Trio, “Raise Your Window (Remastered)”
from New Orleans Blues 30's (Doxy Collection) [Remastered]
Doxy Records - 2014
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Clark Kessinger, “Sally Ann Johnson”
from Clark Kessinger, Fiddler - Old Time Country Music
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Folkways Records - 2004
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Various Artists, “Black Bayou Ain't Got No Bottom”
from Mississippi Blues & Gospel 1934 - 1942
Document - 2005
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Uncle Rufus Blackburn, “Cackling Hen”
from Galax, Virginia Old Time Fiddler's Convention
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 1964
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Blue Ridge Ramblers, “Jug Rag”
from White Country Blues: 1926-1938 A Lighter Shade of Blue
Legacy/Columbia - 1993
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"Uncle" Homer Walker, “Cripple Creek”
from Virginia Traditions: Non Blues Secular Black Music
Global Village Music - 1995
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Bee Deshotels, “Mes souliers sont rouges”
from Folksongs of the Louisiana Açadians
Arhoolie Records - 1994
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Los Hermanos Chavarria, “Peregrina”
from Mexican-Américan Border Music, Vol. 1 - An Introduction: The Pioneer Recording Artists 1928-1958
Arhoolie Records - 1994
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Alphonse Trent and His Orchestra, “St. James Infirmary”
from Wait for Me: Songs of Love, Lust and Discontent from the 1920s and 1930s
East River Records - 2015
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Chatmon Brothers, “if You Don't Want Me Please Don't Dog Me Around”
from Let Me Tell You About the Blues
Fantasy Voyage
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Chuck Guillory, “Grand Texas”
from J'ai été au bal (I Went to the Dance), vol. 1
Arhoolie Records - 1990
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Bukka White, “Strange Place Blues”
from Aberdeeen Mississippi Blues: Sounds of the 30s
Bukka White - 2012
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Bob Miller & His Hinky Dinkers, “Practice Night At Chicken Bristle Part 2”
from The Cornshucker's Frolic: Classic Recordings From the 1920's & 30's, Vol. 2
Yazoo - 2006
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Savelli Walevitch, “Techudo Techudiessa”
from The Secret Museum of Mankind Vol. 1: Ethnic Music Classics (1925-48)
Yazoo - 2006
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Joe Reed Family, “Little David Play On Your Harp”
from Paramount Old Time Recordings, CD C
JSP Records - 2006
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Various Artists, “Lowdown Bugle (Take B)”
from Too Late, Too Late, Vol. 5 (1927-1964)
Document Records - 1995
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Bradley Kincaid, “Liza Up In the Simmon Tree”
from The Story That the Crow Told Me: Early American Rural Children's Songs, Vol. 1
Yazoo - 2006
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Wilmer Watts, “Bonnie Bess”
Yazoo
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Fred Cockerham, “Little Satchel”
from Legends of Old-Time Music: Fifty Years of County Records
County Records - 2015
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The Hokum Boys, “I Had To Give Up Gym”
from Please Warm My Weiner: Old Time Hokum Blues
Yazoo - 2005
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Rev. Blind Gary Davis, “Twelve Gates to the City”
from Rev. Blind Gary Davis 1935 - 1949
Document Records - 2003
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Lord Composer & The Silver Seas Orchestra, “Hill & Gully Ride, Mandeville Rd”
from The Best of Jamaican Mento
Silverphonic Records - 2007
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Lonnie McIntorsh, “Sleep on Mother, Sleep On”
from How Can I Keep From Singing Vol. 2: Early American Religious Music and Song
Shenachie
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The Allen Brothers, “Ain't That Skippin' and Flyin'”
from Allen Brothers Vol. 1 (1927-1930)
Document Records - 1998
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The Oaks Family, “Wake Up You Drowsy Sleeper”
from Times Ain't Like They Used To Be, Vol. 1
Yazoo - 2005
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Kasebe Anatole, “Muleka Mwene Ngoie”
from Origins of Guitar Music In Southern Congo and Northern Zambia
SWP Records
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The "Trobador" De La Montana and the Puerto Rican Quartet, “Aguinaldo Cagueño: Puerto Rican Song”
from Folk Music U.S.A.: Vol. 1
Folkways Records - 1958