Show Me the Way Home, Honey

Various - Times Ain't Like They Used to Be Vol. 1 of 8

Styles: Country Blues, Pre-War Blues, Acoustic Blues, Delta Blues, Old-Timey, String Bands, Traditional Folk
Label: Yazoo
Released: 1997
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 162,7 MB
Time: 71:04
Art: full

1. Prince Albert Hunt - Blues In A Bottle - 3:26
2. Charlie Jordan - Dollar Bill Blues - 3:00
3. Bascom Lamar Lundsford - Lost John Dean - 2:48
4. A.A. Gray & Seven Foot Dilly - Streak of Lean, Streak of Fat - 3:05
5. Richard 'Rabbit' Brown - Sinking Of The Titanic - 3:49
6. Dykes Magic City Trio - Tennessee Girls - 3:04
7. Bob Campbell - Shotgun Blues - 2:56
8. J.P. Nestor & Norman Edmonds - Train On The Island - 2:58
9. The Four Wanderers - The Fault's In Me - 3:13
10. Happy Hayseeds - The Tail Of Halley's Comet - 2:43
11. Oaks Family - Wake Up You Drowsy Sleeper - 2:58
12. Louie Lasky - How You Want Your Rollin' Done - 2:49
13. Frank Blevins & His Tar Heel Rattlers - Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss - 3:03
14. Memphis Jug Band - On The Road Again - 2:51
15. Buell Kazee - The Dying Soldier - 3:09
16. Buddy Boy Hawkins - Voice Throwin' Blues - 3:03
17. Wilmer Watts & The Lonely Eagles - Been On The Job Too Long - 3:13
18. Ken Maynard - Fannie Moore - 3:34
19. Nugrape Twins - I Got Your Ice Cold Nugrape - 2:57
20. Carson Brothers & Sprinkle - The Old Miller's Will - 3:02
21. Winston Holmes & Charlie Turner - Skinner - 2:50
22. Southern Moonlight Entertainers - How To Make Love - 3:15
23. Grayson & Whitter - Old Jimmie Sutton - 3:07

Notes: These are 23 rare 78s from the 1920s and 1930s, chosen to illustrate the wide range of "early American rural music" that made its way onto disc in the early days of the recording industry. This will not get nearly as much press as Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music box, yet it's on par with that ballyhooed re-release as an overview of the roots of American roots music, so to speak. Styles vary from country blues and fiddle hoedowns to banjo music and jug bands. The Memphis Jug Band is the only name here that might be familiar to more than the most well-versed folk historians. Highlights include J.P. Nestor and Norman Edmonds' "Train on the Island," a frenetic string band gallop; the Four Wanderers' eerie gospel tune, "The Fault's in Me"; and Ken Maynard's "Fannie Moore," a direct predecessor of country music in its vocal phrasing.
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Times Ain't Like They Used to Be Vol. 1



• Various - Roots of the Blues
• Jack Owens - Blues At Home 8: Recorded In Bentonia, Mississippi (1978-1982)

Oznake: Country Blues, Prewar Blues, Acoustic Blues, Delta Blues, Old-Timey, String Bands, Traditional Folk, Various