White Spirituals - Atlantic LP

Here's a wonderful LP of recordings made by Alan Lomax in the summer of 1959. This record features E.C. and Orna Ball, the Mountain Ramblers, Alabama Sacred Harp Singers, Neil Morris, and Rev. I.D. Back and congregation. If you like old time gospel music, you've got to download this record! Enjoy!

Tribulations

When I Get Home

The Poor Wayfaring Stranger

Baptizing Down at the Creek

Sermon and Lining Hymn

Antioch

Calvary

Please Let Me Stay a Little Longer

Father, Jesus Loves You

Lonesome Valley

Father Adieu

The Old Country Church

Little Moses

Cabin on the Hill

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Pete Steele

Here's a Folkways record of Kentucky banjo picker, Pete Steele, and his wife Lillie.

Ellen Smith

Little Birdie

The Train a-Pullin'

The Crooked Hill

Galilee

The Unclouded Day

Shady Grove

Hard Times

Goin' Around This World Baby Mine

East Virginia

The Cuckoo

The War is a Ragin' for Johnny

Coal Creek March

Last Pay Day at Coal Creek

Ida Red

Pretty Polly

The Scoldin' Wife

The House Carpenter

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Scotty Stoneman

Here's a great fiddle record by one of bluegrass' forgotten fiddlers. I hope you'll enjoy this!

Wildwood Flower
Low Down Billy
Talkin' Fiddle Blues
Old Joe Clark
Billy In the Lowground
Orange Blossom Hoedown
8th of January
Fire in the Mountain
The Mocking Bird
The Cacklin' Hen

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Walter Hensley

Here's a wonderful banjo album by the great Walter Hensley. This guy is one of the smoothest bluegrass banjo pickers that I have ever heard. Please thanks to Mario for the cover scan.

Walt's Breakdown
The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise
Bear Tracks
When You're Smiling
Grandfather's Clock
Kickin' Mule
Steel Guitar Rag
Beer Barrel Polka
Chokin' the Strings
The Old Spinning Wheel
Rose Conley
Long Way From Home


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The Vaughan Quartet

The Vaughan Quartet 1937


Here are some nice recordings of the Vaughan Quartet. Some of these are records from my collection and others are sides that I've found from other sources over the years. These are all from either Victor records or Vaughan records.

Victor Sides
His Charming Love

It's Just Like Heaven

I Want to Go There, Don't You

A Beautiful Life

I Am Happy Now

In Steps of Light

Sunlight and Shadows

My Troubles Will Be Over

When All Those Millions Sing

I'll Never Be Lonesome In Heaven

One at Last

Oh What a Morning

The Master of the Storm

Vaughan Sides
Amazing Grace

Naturalized For Heaven

Forever in Thy Hands

Hallelujah, He is Mine

Help Me Lord To Stand

I Can Tell You the Time

It Will Make Heaven Brighter

It's Just Like Heaven

The Story Grows Sweeter

Montgomery Ward Sides
Heaven All the Way

Walking With My King

Vaughan's Happy Two - Vaughan Sides
Dis Train
Set Down
Forever in Thy Hands
Put My Little Shoes Away

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Original Carter Family's Last Performance 1953

There are tons of photos of the Carter Family, but I've never seen one late enough to be really fitting for this post, so I've just decided to post it without a photo. It has been said numerous times in tv documentaries and by people that should know better that the Original Carter Family (AP, Sara, and Maybelle) did not perform together anymore after sometime in the early 1940s. This just isn't so. Here is a live recordings of A.P., Sara, and Maybelle in 1953 performing at a memorial event for Jimmie Rodgers in Meridian, Mississippi.

Apparently, there were quite a few major figures in country music there. Check out this youtube video of Roy Acuff sharing his memories of the Rodgers memorial event in Meridian.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RjRt1ptO5s

A.P. - spoken intros and bass vocals
Sara - ryhthm guitar and lead vocals
Maybelle - lead guitar and harmony vocals

Anchored in Love
God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign

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Sid Harkreader

Sid Harkreader and Grady Moore


Here is a large majority of Sid Harkreader's commercial recordings. These sides come from the collections of several of my friends who collect pre-war 78s. This is probably the only place that you'll find this many Sid Harkreader recordings in one place, so I hope you'll enjoy hearing them.

Sid Harkreader - Solo Vocalion Session- April 13-15, 1925

The Dying Girl's Message

New River Train

Where is My Boy Tonight

I Wish I Was a Single Girl Again

Many Time With You I Wandered

Southern Whistling Coon

Struttin' Round

Sid Harkreader and Grady Moore - Paramount - June 1927

The Bully of the Town

Hand Me Down My Walking Cane

Old Joe

John Henry

There's A Little Rosewood Casket

The Gambler's Dying Words

A Picture From Life's Other Side

Where We'll Never Grow Old

Kitty Wells

Way Down In Jail on My Knees

My Little Home in Tennessee

In the Sweet Bye and Bye

The Old Rugged Cross

Will There Be Any Stars In My Crown

Lazy Tennessee

Sid Harkreader and Blythe Poteet - Paramount - April 1928

Red River Valley

It Won't Be Long Now

Life's Railway to Heaven

He'll Find No Girl Like Me

Sweet Bird

Drink Her Down

Take Me Back to My Old Carolina Home

Wang Wang Blues

Where Is My Mama

Travelling Coon

Chin Music

On the Bowery

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