On the Cusp on Great Things
A solid round of bangers served up this week coming from every direction! Enjoy the ambling musings of musics from a different time, there’s something to it..
Playlist
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Fess Williams & His Royal Flush Orchestra, “Hot Town”
Hot Record Society - 2010
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Garfield Akers, “Jumpin' And Shoutin' Blues”
Silverphonic Records - 2009
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Mike Seeger, “Soon In the Morning Babe”
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 1998
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East Texas Serenaders, “East Texas Drag”
from East Texas Serenaders (1927-1937)
Document Records - 1998
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Mississippi Sheiks, “Yodelling Fiddling Blues”
from Missississippi Sheiks, Vol 1 (1929-1930)
Document Records - 1991
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Fred Cockerham, “June Apple”
from High Atmosphere: Ballads and Banjo Tunes From Virginia and North Carolina
Rounder Records - 1975
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Clayton Horsley, “Don't the Moon Look Pretty”
from Virginia Traditions: Western Piedmont Blues
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / Blue Ridge Institute - 2015
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Rev. Gary Davis, “I Belong to the Band- Hallelujah!”
from Gospel, Blues and Street Song
Fantasy Records
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Fred Cockerham, Oscar Jenkins & Tommy Jarrell, “Old Bunch of Keys”
from Stay All Night ... and Don't Go Home
Rebel Records - 2004
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Turner Foddrell, “Slow Drag”
from Virginia Traditions: Western Piedmont Blues
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / Blue Ridge Institute - 2015
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Cleve Chaffin, “Babylon Is Fallen Down”
from The Half Ain't Never Been Told - Early American Rural Religious Music, Vol. 2
Yazoo - 2006
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Uncle Eck Dunford & Hattie Stoneman, “What Will I Do For My Money's All Gone”
from The Rose Grew Round the Briar
Yazoo - 2005
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Kansas City Kitty & Georgia Tom, “How Can You Have the Blues?”
from Kansas City Kitty & Georgia Tom (1930-1934)
Document Records - 1992
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Ernest V. Stoneman & The Blue Ridge Cornshuckers, “Raging Sea, How It Roars”
from Virginia Traditions: Ballads from British Tradition
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / Blue Ridge Institute - 2015
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Various Artists, “Hurry Down, Sunshine, and See What Tomorrow Brings”
from Too Late, Too Late, Vol. 5 (1927-1964)
Document Records - 1995
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Various Artists, “Jack of Diamonds Georgia Rub”
from Too Late, Too Late, Vol. 5 (1927-1964)
Document Records - 1995
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James Lowry, “Karo Street Blues”
from Virginia Traditions: Western Piedmont Blues
Global Village Music - 1992
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The Carter Family, “The Cyclone of Rye Cove”
from The Complete Carter Family Collection, Vol. 2
H.o.t.S (Home of the Stars) - 2011
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Lonnie Glosson, “Arkansas Hard Luck Blues”
from The Roots of Rap: Classic Recordings From the 1920s & 30s
Yazoo - 2006
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Elder Curry, “Memphis Flu”
from How Can I Keep From Singing Vol. 2: Early American Religious Music and Song
Yazoo - 2006
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The Callahan Brothers, “Somebody's Been Using That Thing”
from Top 65 Classics - The Very Best of the Callahan Brothers
GRR Music - 2015
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Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers, “Wake Up Jacob”
from American Folk Music, Vol. 2
Smithsonian Folkways - 2008
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Blind Willie McTell, “Talkin' to Myself”
from Statesboro Blues: The Early Years 1927-1935
Document Records - 2005
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Gabriel Brown & John & Rochelle French, “Education Blues”
from Field Recordings, Vol. 7: Florida (1935-1936)
Document Records - 1997
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Gaither Carlton, “Charming Betsy”
from Banjo Classics from the Vaults of County Records & Old Blue Records
Old Blue Records, LLC - 2012
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Dot Edwards and Katie Golden, “Columbus Stockade Blues”
from Galax, Virginia Old Fiddler's Convention
Folkways Records - 2004
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Carl Martin, “Let's Have a New Deal”
from Broadcasting the Blues: Black Blues In the Segregation Era
Document Records - 2006
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Rev. Edward W. Clayborn, “Your Enemy Cannot Harm You”
Death Is Not The End - 2014
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Pete Steele, “Last Payday at Coal Creek”
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Folkways Records - 1958