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Roots and Rhythms
Wednesday August 2nd, 2017 with Kid Caffeine
Old-Timey Country: Sizzling string bands, frantic fiddlers and gut-bucket guitarists from the Twenties & Thirties. The roots of bluegrass & country music.

Vintage string band and fiddling recordings from the late Twenties and Thirties. Featuring the music of Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers, the Mississippi Mud Steppers, Sam McGee and more.
Go Along Mule
UNCLE DAVE MACON with THE FRUIT JAR DRINKERS - Bluegrass Bonanza: String Band Roots 1927-38 - ’27 Victor Records/’01 Proper Records
D Blues
THE BLUE RIDGE RAMBLERS - Roots N’ Blues: The Retrospective 1925-1950 - ’35 Vocalion Records/’92 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
I'm Going To Take The Train To Charlotte
FIDDLIN’ JOHN CARSON - Roots N’ Blues: The Retrospective 1925-1950 - ’28 OKeh Records, unissued/’92 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Sweet Milk And Peaches
WILLIAM THOMAS NARMOUR & SHELLIE WALTON SMITH - Roots N’ Blues: The Retrospective 1925-1950 - ’29 OKeh Records/’92 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Bonaparte's Retreat
W.M. STEPP - The Music Of Kentucky: Early American Rural Classics - ’37 American Folklife Center/Library of Congress/’95 Yazoo Records/Shanachie Entertainment Corp.
Soldier's Joy
GID TANNER & HIS SKILLET LICKERS with RILEY PUCKETT & CLAYTON McMICHEN - Roots N’ Blues: The Retrospective 1925-1950 - ’29 Columbia Records/’92 Sony Music Entertainment Inc
Ned Went A Fishin'
WALKER’S CORBIN RAMBLERS - The Music Of Kentucky: Early American Rural Classics 1927-37 - ’34 Vocalion Records/’95 Yazoo Records
Blue Grass Twist
THE SOUTH GEORGIA HIGHBALLERS - Roots N’ Blues: The Retrospective 1925-1950 - ’27 OKeh Records/’92 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Jackson Stomp
THE MISSISSIPPI MUD STEPPERS - Bluegrass Bonanza: String Band Roots 1927-38 - ’31 OKeh Records/’01 Proper Record
Chevrolet Car
SAM McGEE - The Rough Guide To Country Music Pioneers - ’28 Vocalion Record/’13 World Music Network
Hard For To Love
THE APALACHIAN VAGABOND a.k.a. HAYES SHEPHERD - Bluegrass Bonanza: String Band Roots 1927-38 - 30 Vocalion Records/’13 World Music Network
Pretty Polly
B.F. SHELTON - The Music Of Kentucky: Early American Rural Classics 1927-37 - ’27 Victor Records/’01 Proper Records
I Get My Whiskey From Rockingham
EARL JOHNSON & HIS CLODHOPPERS - Bluegrass Bonanza: String Band Roots 1927-38 - ’27 Okeh Records/’01 Proper Records
Moonshiner And His Money
CHARLIE BOWMAN & HIS BROTHERS - Roots N’ Blues: The Retrospective 1925-1950 - ’30 Columbia Records/’92 Sony Music Entertainment
If The River Was Whiskey
CHARLIE POOLE & HIS NORTH CAROLINA RAMBLERS - Bluegrass Bonanza: String Band Roots 1927-38 - ’30 Columbia Records/’01 Proper Records
Garbage Man Blues
MILTON BROWN & HIS MUSICAL BROWNIES - The Daddy Of Western Swing: Brownies Stomp - ’34 Bluebird Records/'03 Proper Records
Interactive CKCU
Renny G (host)
Some Old-Time fiddlin' fun!

5:32 PM, August 2nd, 2017
Renny G (host)
Hello out there.

8:06 PM, August 2nd, 2017
Renny G (host)
Anyone listening?

8:19 PM, August 2nd, 2017
north
yes

8:38 PM, August 2nd, 2017
Renny G (host)
Thanks for listening north.

8:44 PM, August 2nd, 2017
Renny G (host)
If you listen to this online please leave comments, suggestions, criticisms, etc. Any kind of feedback is welcomed. Thank you for listening!

10:56 PM, August 2nd, 2017