J.A.W. Posted January 3, 2011 Report Posted January 3, 2011 Details here (release date: March 1, 2011) 5-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 120-page hardcover book. 124 tracks; playing time approx. 6 hrs 25 mns. -- 'The single most important event in the history of country music.' (JOHNNY CASH, on the 1927 Bristol sessions). This is the foundation of country music! An unsurpassed storehouse of traditional American music, featuring the first recordings by the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers. The legendary sessions issued complete for the first and only time, including the ultra-rare follow-up sessions from 1928! -- The recording trip made by Victor Records to Bristol, Tennessee in July-August 1927 was a defining moment in country music. Producer Ralph Peer found two acts that acquired national and international fame: Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family. But more than a hundred other recordings were made at the Bristol sessions of 1927 and '28. There were ballad singers, street evangelists, string bands, gospel quartets, harmonica virtuosos, Holiness preachers, blues guitarists and rural storytellers. A snapshot of rural American music was caught in an era of rapid change: pictures of a past almost beyond recall, but preserved for ever in these magnificent recordings. -- The five CDs in this set gather every surviving recording from these sessions, including alternative takes. The accompanying 120-page, LP-sized hardcover book contains newly researched essays on the background to the sessions and on the individual artists, with many rare and unpublished photographs. Also included are complete song lyrics and a detailed discography, illustrated with reproductions of the original recording sheets. Quote
JSngry Posted January 3, 2011 Report Posted January 3, 2011 Wow...I've been through Bristol countless times & never knew of its importance. I wonder how many of the people who live there now do? Quote
AllenLowe Posted January 3, 2011 Report Posted January 3, 2011 it was truly the birth of country music - looking forward to this; 2 CDs came out at one time by the Country Music Foundation, and then BMG put out a single CD a few years ago. Quote
JSngry Posted January 3, 2011 Report Posted January 3, 2011 it was truly the birth of country music The birth of the music itself, or the birth of the recording of it (and of course, all in the music that followed from that)? Quote
JSngry Posted January 3, 2011 Report Posted January 3, 2011 Too bad I don't have the reason to go through Bristol anymore. Quote
J.A.W. Posted January 4, 2011 Author Report Posted January 4, 2011 The Bristol Sessions (Wikipedia) Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted January 4, 2011 Report Posted January 4, 2011 Must have been created by the Bear Family. Quote
Hoppy T. Frog Posted March 25, 2011 Report Posted March 25, 2011 (edited) Just got it in the mail today. Haven't even opened it. I just want to feel the heft and admire the high-quality packaging first! Edited March 25, 2011 by Hoppy T. Frog Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted March 25, 2011 Report Posted March 25, 2011 I didn't know Ms. Palin had recorded. Quote
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