An Early Nod to Mother’s Day

Dock Boggs, “Mother's Advice”

from Dock Boggs

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Folkways Records - 1964

Robert Hill, “I'm Going to Write and Tell My Mother”

from Never Let the Same Bee Sting You Twice - Blues, Ballads, Rags & Gospel In the Songster Tradition

2005

Riley Puckett, “Just Break the News to My Mother”

from Just Break the News to My Mother

Walter Morris, “Mother's Face I Long to See”

from Georgia Songsters (1926-1930)

Document Records - 2005

Roy Harvey & Leonard Copeland, “Mother's Waltz”

from Roy Harvey Vol. 3 (1929-1930)

Document Records - 2005

Silver Leaf Quartette of Norfolk, “Sleep On, Mother”

from Silver Leaf Quartette of Norfolk (1928-1931)

Document Records - 2005

Steve Ledford & The Mountaineers, “Since I Met My Mother-In-Law”

from Since I Met My Mother-In-Law

Kentucky Ramblers, “With My Mother Dead and Gone”

from The Music of Kentucky: Early American Rural Classics 1927-37 Volume 1

2006

Lesley Riddle, “Motherless Children”

from Step by Step

Rounder - 1993

Ernest Branch & Bernice Coleman, “The Ring My Mother Wore”

from The Ring My Mother Wore

Doc Hopkins, “Mother, the Queen of My Heart”

from Mother, the Queen of My Heart

Woody Guthrie, “Put My Little Shoes Away”

from Muleskinner Blues: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 2

1962

Charlie Mitchell & His Kentucky Ridge Runners, “What A Friend We Have in Mother”

from --------

The Carter Family, “Will the Circle Be Unbroken”

from Are You Lonesome Tonight?

Ideal Music - 2010

Bessie Jones, “Go to Sleep Little Baby”

from Go to Sleep Little Baby

Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra, “God Bless the Child”

from Billie Holiday's Greatest Hits

1995

The Girls Of The Golden West, “The Tramp's Mother”

from Girls of the Golden West (Doxy Collection)

Doxy Records - 2014

J. Wilson, “Have Children of My Own”

from Field Recordings Vol. 1: Virginia (1936-1941)

2005

Samantha Bumgarner & Eva Davis, “My Mother's Darling Child”

from My Mother's Darling Child

John Hammond, Sr., “My Mother Always Talked to Me”

from My Mother Always Talked to Me

Eddie Head & His Family, “Tryin' to Get Home”

from American Primitive, Vol. I: Raw Pre-War Gospel

Revenant - 1997

Country Joe McDonald, “Woman At Home”

from A Tribute to Woody Guthrie

2005

The Nashville Grass, “I Heard My Mother Call My Name In Prayer”

from Classic Bluegrass (From Smithsonian Folkways)

Smithsonian Folkways - 2002

Judie & Julie, “A Letter to Mother”

from A Letter to Mother

Washington Phillips, “Mother's Last Word To Her Son”

from The Key To the Kingdom

Yazoo Records - 2005

Picaninny Jug Band, “Come Along Little Children”

from Memphis Blues - 100 Vintage Tracks

2009

Chicago Footwarmers, “Grandma's Ball”

from New Orleans Jazz of the 1920s

2008

Piron's New Orleans Orchestra, “Mamma's Gone, Goodbye”

from Piron's New Orleans Orchestra

Retrieval - 2007

Les Hobeaux Skiffle Group, “Mama Don't Allow”

from Skiffle - The Very Best Of

2012

Rosa Henderson, “Papa Will Be Gone (feat. Rosa Henderson)”

from Papa Will Be Gone (feat. Rosa Henderson)

Clarence Ashley & Tex Isley, “Shout Little Lulu”

from Clarence Ashley & Tex Isley

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Folkways Records - 1966

Clarence Ashley & Tex Isley, “May I Sleep in Your Barn Tonight Mister”

from May I Sleep in Your Barn Tonight Mister

1966

Clarence Ashley & Tex Isley, “Ain't No Use to High Hat Me”

from Ain't No Use to High Hat Me

1933

Clarence Ashley & Tex Isley, “Little Hillside”

from Clarence Ashley & Tex Isley

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Folkways Records - 1966