Blues, gospel, old-time, and country music. Direct and acoustical recordings originally issued as 78 rpm discs in the 1920s and 1930s. Program notes inserted in container. Various artists.
Contents:
Disc 1. Croquet habits (Freeny's Barn Dance Band) ; Mississippi county farm blues (Son House) ; Up jumped the rabbit (Georgia Pot Lickers) ; I'm going back home (Memphis Minnie & Joe McCoy) ; Fightin' in the war with Spain (Wilmer Watts and the Lonely Eagles) ; Old Timbrook blues (John Byrd) ; A little talk with Jesus (Ernest Phipps and His Holiness Singers) ; Slidin' delta (Tommy Johnson) ; Alabama blues (The Three Stripped Gears) ; Rollin dough blues (Jack Gowdlock) ; Ginseng blues (Kentucky Ramblers) ; Police and high sheriff come ridin' down (Ollis Martin) ; John Hardy blues (Roy Harvey & Jess Johston and the West Virginia Ramblers) ; Original Stack O' Lee blues (Long "Cleeve" Reed & Little Harvey Hull, aka, The Down Home Boys) ; Two step de la prairie soileau (Amedie Ardoin & Dennis McGee) ; Operator blues (Andrew & Jim Baxter) ; The grey eagle (J.D. Harris) ; Jim Strainer blues (Memphis Jug Band) ; Ain't that troule in mind (Grayson County Railsplitters) ; Old rub alcohol blues (Dock Boggs) ; Mistreatin' mama (Jaybird Coleman) ; It's a rough road to Georgia (Henry Whitter) ; Live the life (Rev. B.L. Wightman with Lottie Kimbrough & congregation) -- Disc 2. Sweet mama (Yank Rachel with Sleepy John Estes & Jab Jones) ; We all love mother (Crowder Brothers) ; Clarksdale moan (Son House) ; Bull dog Sal (Ashley & Foster) ; Down in Texas blues (Jesse "Babyface" Thomas) ; Chicken don't roost too high (Georgia Pot Lickers) ; I'm leavin' town (but I sure don't wanna go) (William Harris) ; Wild cat rag (Asa Martin & Roy Hobbs) ; Whoopee blues (alternate take) (King Solomon Hill) ; Davey Crockett (Chubby Parker) ; Skinny leg blues (Geeshie Wiley) ; I'm gonna marry that pretty little girl (Sweet Brothers) ; I shall not be moved (Blind Roosevelt Graves & Uaroy Graves) ; Lonesome road blues (Smith & Irvine) ; If I call you mama (Luke Jordon) ; My mind is to marry (Grayson & Whitter) ; Green river (Osey Helton) ; Don't speak to me (Lottie Kimbrough) ; Married man's blues (Wade Ward) ; Sweet Betsey from Pike (Ken Maynard) ; Boll weevil (Jaybird Coleman) ; Bound steel blues (Bill Shepherd with Hayes Shepherd & Ed Webb) ; Bells of love (Middle Georgia Singing Convention no. 1).
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