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 |
Some Old-Time fiddlin' fun!
5:32 PM, August 2nd, 2017