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Roots and Rhythms
Sunday April 4th, 2021 with RetroRenny
Country String Bands 1927-1950

High Sheriff
Aiken County String Band - Roots N' Blues: The Retrospective: 1925-1950 - 1927 Okeh/1992 Columbia/Legacy
Miss Liza Poor Gal
Tenneva Ramblers - The Rough Guide To Country Music Pioneers - 1927 Victor/2013 World Music Network
Sourwood Mountain
Taylor's Kentucky Boys - Saga Blues: The Songsters Tradition "Before the Blues" - 1927 Gennett/2004 Saga
Black-Eyed Suzie
J.P. Nester - The Rough Guide To Country Music Pioneers - 1927 Victor/2013 World Music Network
Cluck Old Hen
The Hill Billies - Music From The Lost Provinces - 1928 Vocalion/1997 Old Hat
Don't Get Trouble in Your Mind
Frank Blevins & His Tar Heel Rattlers - Music from the Lost Provinces - 1928 Columbia/1997 Old Hat
Governor Al Smith for President
Carolina Night Hawks - Music from the Lost Provinces - 1928 Columbia/1997 Old Hat
Chinese Breakdown
Jack Reedy & His Walker Mountain String Band - Music From The Lost Provinces - 1928 Brunswick/1997 Old Hat
Soldier's Joy
Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers With Riley Puckett - Country: The American Tradition - 1929 Bluebird/1999 Monument/Legacy
My Name Is Ticklish Reuben
Smyth County Ramblers - The Rough Guide To Country Music Pioneers - 1929 Victor/2013 World Music Network
If The River Was Whiskey
Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers - White Country Blues (1926-1938) - 1930 Columbia/1993 Legacy
Ginseng Blues
The Kentucky Ramblers - The Music Of Kentucky: Early American Rural Classics 1927-37 Volume 1 - 1930 Broadway/1995 Yazoo
Diddle-Da-Diddle
Georgia Cotton Pickers - Good Time Blues—Harmonicas, Kazoos, Washboards & Cow-Bells - 1931 Columbia/1991 Columbia/Legacy
Travellin' Railroad Man
Alabama Sheiks - Saga Blues: The Songsters Tradition "Before the Blues" - 1931Victor/2004 Saga
Nobody's Darling
North Carolina Ridge Runners - Music from the Lost Provinces - 1931 Columbia/1997 Old Hat
Ned Went A Fishin
Walker's Corbin Ramblers - The Music Of Kentucky: Early American Rural Classics 1927-37 Volume 1 - 1934 Vocalion/1995 Yazoo
Nobody's Business
Roy Sexton & His Arizona Hoedowners - Rare And Unissued Fiddle & String Band Music - 1950 Old Timer Records (unissued alt. take)/2020 Ramco Records
Bully Of The Town
Mundy's Western Band - Rare And Unissued Fiddle & String Band Music - between 1947-50/2020 Ramco Records
Sally, There's A Bug On Me
Everett Helman - Rare And Unissued Fiddle & String Band Music - between 1947-50/2020 Ramco Records
Interactive CKCU
Renny G (host)
If you are listening let me know. Thanks.

8:04 PM, April 4th, 2021
hillbilly
just made curfew qc....was playin' guitar & harps & drums around fire...this is SO perfect!!! Happy Easter!!!

8:18 PM, April 4th, 2021
Renny G (host)
And to you hillbilly.

8:22 PM, April 4th, 2021
Renny G (host)
Thanks for listening.

8:59 PM, April 4th, 2021
hb
👍✊

9:46 PM, April 4th, 2021
PaulS
Rockin!

9:52 PM, April 5th, 2021