Thawing Out (Hopefully?)
As winter slogs on, here are some string filled tunes to warm the soul. Enjoy this fine mix of bluegrass, gospel, early country and some blues!
Playlist
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Alberto Ruiz y su Lira Incaica, “Paceñita (Bolivia)”
from Excavated Shellac: Strings
Dust-to-Digital - 2015
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Jim Marshall & Artie Marshall, “New River Song”
from Virginia Traditions: Native Virginia Ballads and Songs
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / Blue Ridge Institute - 2015
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Jess Morris, “Unfortunately Dog or Stony Point”
from Lost Train Blues: John & Alan Lomax and the Early Folk Music Collections at the Library of Congress
Jalopy Records - 2016
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Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, “Get Up John”
from Kentucky Bluegrass Guitar
Classic Mood Experience
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Memphis Jug Band, “Sun Brimmers Blues”
from Backgrounds of Jazz / Vol. 1: The Jug Bands
Classics Archive Media - 2020
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The Ray Brothers, “Got the Jake Leg Too”
from My Rough and Rowdy Ways: Early American Rural Music - Badman Ballads and Hellraising Songs, Vol. 1
Yazoo - 2005
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Burnett and Rutherford, “Ladies on the Steamboat”
from Ballads and Breakdowns of the Golden Era
Shanachie
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Earl Johnson & His Clodhoppers, “I Get My Whiskey From Rockingham”
from American Epic: The Collection
Columbia/Legacy - 2017
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Smith & Irvine, “Lonesome Road Blues”
from The Stuff That Dreams Are Made of: Super Rarities
Yazoo - 2006
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Doc Watson, Gaither Carlton, “Groundhog (Blind Lemon's Version)”
from Selections fro mDoc Watson and Gaither Carlton
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
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Snuffy Jenkins, “Careless Love”
from American Banjo: Three-Finger and Scruggs Style
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 1990
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Homer Davenport, “Down in Tennessee Blues”
from Turn Me Loose: Outsiders of Old-Time Music
Pawn/Tompkins Square - 2013
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The Carver Boys, “Sleeping Lula”
from The Music of Kentucky: Early American Rural Classics 1927-37, Vol. 2
Yazoo - 2006
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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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Emry Arthur, “Short Life of Trouble”
from The Bluegrass Roots (Doxy Collection, Remastered)
Doxy Records
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J.C. Sutphin, “I Don't Love Nobody”
from American Banjo: Three-Finger and Scruggs Style
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 1990
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Frank Wakefield & Red Allen, “Are You Afraid to Die”
from Classic Bluegrass, Vol. 2 from Smithsonian Folkways
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2005
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Joe Lee, “The Man Was Burning”
from Virginia Traditions: Virginia Work Songs
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / Blue Ridge Institute - 2015
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J.E. Mainer & The Mountaineers, “Run Mountain”
from Bluegrass Bonanza: Early Bluegrass
Proper - 2001
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Roy Hall & His Blue Ridge Entertainers, “Wabash Cannonball”
from The Best of Bluegrass - 80 Years of American Music
Sunset Boulevard Records
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Byron Parker and His Mountaineers, “Carroll County Blues”
Red Cab Records - 2010
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Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley, “C.C. & O. Blues”
from Roots N' Blues: The Retrospective 1925-1950
Legacy/Columbia - 1992
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Joe Stuart, “Medley: Cackling Hen / Cumberland Gap”
from American Banjo: Three-Finger and Scruggs Style
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 1990
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Jake Jones & the Gold Front Boys, “Southern Sea Blues”
from Texas Black Country Dance Music
Document Records
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Mississippi Mud Mashers, “Bring it on Home to Grandma”
from Black Secular Vocal Groups
Document Records
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Grayson & Whitter, “I've Always Been a Rambler”
from Vintage Masters 1927-1929
Vintage Masters Inc. - 2012
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Noah Lewis, “Like I Want to Be”
from First Recordings With Yank Rachell and Noah Lewis
JSP Records - 2002
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Hoyt "Floyd" Ming and his Pep-Steppers, “Tupelo Blues”
Document Records
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Bill Monroe & Doc Watson, “Watson's Blues”
from Live Duet Recordings 1963-1980: Off the Record, Vol. 2
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 1993
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Kid Wesley Wilson & Leola B, “Uncle Joe”
from Please Warm My Weiner: Old Time Hokum Blues
Yazoo - 2005
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J.E. Mainer & His Mountaineers, “Forks of the Road”
from The Legendary J.E. Mainer, Volume 4
Gusto Records
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John Hartford, “Miss Ferris”
from John Hartford: Me Oh My, How the Time Does Fly - A John Hartford Anthology
Flying Fish
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Cora Fluker & Ola Mae Bell, “The World, She's Windin' Up”
from Look How the World Has Made a Change
Ndh Music - 2013