Memorial Day Special

Carl Kress & Eddie Lang, “Feeling My Way”

from Feeling My Way

Mr. & Mrs. Hugh Cross, “Dearest Sweetest Mother”

from Dearest Sweetest Mother

G.B. Grayson & Henry Whitter, “He Is Coming to Us Dead”

from The Recordings of Grayson & Whitter (1928-1930)

County - 1999

Woody Guthrie, “Jarama Valley”

from Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 1964

Wilmer Watts & His Lonely Eagles, “Fightin' In The War With Spain”

from Fightin' In The War With Spain

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

from Just Break the News to My Mother

Hobart Smith, “Soldier, Soldier”

from Sounds of the South

1960

Pink Anderson, “The Boys of Your Uncle Sam”

from Pink Anderson: Carolina Medicine Show Hokum and Blues With Baby Tate

Folkways Records - 1984

Rainey's Old Time Band, “Crawford March”

from Crawford March

Neil Morris, “The Irish Soldier and the Lady”

from The Irish Soldier and the Lady

McMichen's Melody Men, “Sailing on the Bay of Tripoli”

from Sailing on the Bay of Tripoli

Karl & Harty, “Training Camp Blues”

from Training Camp Blues

Phillips' Louisville Jug Band, “Soldier Boy Blues”

from Soldier Boy Blues

Brown, Buster; vocal and harmonica, “War song”

from African American Music Festivals, 1938-1943 - Ragtime, Speeches and Ballads Audio CD

A2ZCDS.com - 2007

Ernest Stoneman, “Sweet Bunches of Violets”

from Sweet Bunches of Violets

The Carter Family, “Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow”

from Bury Me Beneath the Weeping Willow

Blind Willie Johnson, “Lord, I Just Can't Keep From Crying”

from Lord, I Just Can't Keep From Crying

Bessie Smith, “Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out”

from The Essential Bessie Smith

1951

Carolina Chocolate Drops, “Day of Liberty”

from Divided & United: The Songs of the Civil War

2013

Blind Lemon Jefferson, “Wartime Blues”

from The Best of Blind Lemon Jefferson

2000

Harry "Haywire Mac" McClintock, “Uncle Jim’s Rebel Soldier (Oh, I’m a Good Old Rebel)”

from Haywire Mac

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Folkways Records - 1972

Dock Boggs, “Calvary”

from His Folkways Years, 1963-1968

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 1970

Arthur Smith & The McGee Brothers, “Drummer Boy”

from Milk 'Em In the Evening Blues

1968

Mississippi Possum Hunters, “The Last Shot Got Him”

from The Return of the Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

2007

Luke Hignight & His Ozark Strutters, “Fort Smith Breakdown”

from Roots of the Blues

2012

Charley Patton, “Some These Days I'll Be Gone”

from Complete Remastered Sessions

2001

Blind Lemon Jefferson, “See That My Grave Is Kept Clean”

from Black Snake Moan

2000

Lonnie Johnson, “Some Day Baby”

from Lonnie Johnson Vol. 3 (1944-1947)

2005

Willie Brown, “Future Blues”

from Delta Blues

2007

Coley Jones, “Army Mule In No Man's Land”

from Bloody War : Songs 1924-1939

2010

Willie Dixon, “It Don't Make Sense”

from It Don't Make No Sense

William & Versey Smith, “Everybody Help the Boys Come Home”

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

Revenant - 1997

Wade Mainer & Sons of the Mountaineers, “Not A Word of that is to be Said”

from Not A Word of that is to be Said