Alexander Posted May 26, 2010 Author Report Posted May 26, 2010 Today's update features Virginia coal miner Dock Boggs performing "Sugar Baby." Quote
Alexander Posted May 31, 2010 Author Report Posted May 31, 2010 Today's update features Bascom Lamar Lunsford performing "I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground." Quote
Alexander Posted June 3, 2010 Author Report Posted June 3, 2010 Today's update features country pioneers Ernest and Hattie Stoneman performing "The Mountaineer's Courtship." Quote
Alexander Posted June 7, 2010 Author Report Posted June 7, 2010 The Stoneman Family returns (with Uncle Eck Dunford on fiddle) in today's update performing "The Spanish Merchant's Daughter," another humorous dialogue. Quote
Alexander Posted June 8, 2010 Author Report Posted June 8, 2010 Today's update features Will Shade's Memphis Jug Band performing "Bob Lee Junior Blues." Quote
Alexander Posted June 14, 2010 Author Report Posted June 14, 2010 The Carter Family return in today's update, performing "Single Girl, Married Girl," a song from the historic Bristol Sessions... Quote
Alexander Posted June 16, 2010 Author Report Posted June 16, 2010 Today's update features the return of Cajun vocalist/guitarist Cléoma Breaux and her husband, accordianist Joseph Falcon, performing "Le Vieux Soulard Et Sa Femme (The Old Drunkard and his Wife)." Quote
Alexander Posted June 20, 2010 Author Report Posted June 20, 2010 Today's update features the legendary blues artist, Blind Lemon Jefferson performing "Rabbit Foot Blues," the first of three Jefferson recordings on the "Anthology." Quote
Alexander Posted June 23, 2010 Author Report Posted June 23, 2010 Today's update features blues guitarist Sleepy John Estes performing "Expressman Blues," with James "Yank" Rachell on vocal and mandolin and Jab Jones on piano. Quote
Alexander Posted June 28, 2010 Author Report Posted June 28, 2010 Today's update kicks off the last disc of the original three-volume "Anthology of American Folk Music." Today's selection is the Louisiana-born bluesman, Willard "Ramblin'" Thomas performing "Poor Boy Blues." Quote
Alexander Posted June 30, 2010 Author Report Posted June 30, 2010 Cannon's Jug Stompers return in today's update, performing "Feather Bed." Quote
Alexander Posted July 4, 2010 Author Report Posted July 4, 2010 Today's update features the return of Dock Boggs performing "Country Blues," a varient of the traditional mountain ballad, "Darling Cora." Quote
Alexander Posted July 7, 2010 Author Report Posted July 7, 2010 Today's update features Piedmont blues musician Julius Daniels performing "Ninety-Nine Year Blues." Quote
Alexander Posted July 11, 2010 Author Report Posted July 11, 2010 Blind Lemon Jefferson returns in today's update performing "Prison Cell Blues." Quote
Alexander Posted July 14, 2010 Author Report Posted July 14, 2010 Blind Lemon Jefferson makes the last of his three appearances in today's update, performing "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean." Quote
Alexander Posted July 19, 2010 Author Report Posted July 19, 2010 Cléoma Breaux and Joseph Falcon, along with fiddler Ophy Breaux, return in today's update performing "C'est Si Triste Sans Lui." Quote
Alexander Posted July 20, 2010 Author Report Posted July 20, 2010 Today's update features Uncle Dave Macon, one of the greatest showmen of all time, performing "Way Down The Old Plank Road. Quote
Alexander Posted July 26, 2010 Author Report Posted July 26, 2010 Uncle Dave Macon returns in today's update with the second of five "work songs," performing "Buddy Won't You Roll Down The Line." Quote
Alexander Posted July 28, 2010 Author Report Posted July 28, 2010 Mississippi John Hurt returns in today's update performing "Spike Driver Blues." Quote
Alexander Posted August 2, 2010 Author Report Posted August 2, 2010 The Memphis Jug Band return in today's update, performing "K.C. Moan." Quote
Alexander Posted August 5, 2010 Author Report Posted August 5, 2010 Today's update features J.P. Nestor and Norman Edmonds performing "Train On The Island," the last of five work songs in a row. Quote
Alexander Posted August 9, 2010 Author Report Posted August 9, 2010 Today's update features cowboy actor Ken Maynard performing "The Lone Star Trail," the only song on the "Anthology" recorded in Los Angeles! Quote
Alexander Posted August 11, 2010 Author Report Posted August 11, 2010 Henry Thomas returns in today's update with "Fishing Blues," the last song on the original three volume "Anthology." Quote
Alexander Posted August 16, 2010 Author Report Posted August 16, 2010 Volume Four begins today! This update features the return of the Memphis Jug Band performing "Memphis Shakedown," a mix of the hillbilly breakdown and the African American shake Quote
Alexander Posted August 18, 2010 Author Report Posted August 18, 2010 Today's update features radio entertainer Bradley Kincaid performing "Dog and Gun (An Old English Ballad)," the only ballad chosen by Smith to depict a strong female character... Quote
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.