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Album: Mountain Blues: Blues, Ballads & String Bands 1927-1938 [Box]
# Song Title   Time
1)    Match Box Blues - Larry Hensley
2)    Black Snake Moan - Cobb/Underwood/Cobb/Underwood
3)    Johnson City Blues - Clarence Green
4)    Franklin County Blues - The Dixie Ramblers
5)    Blue Grass Twist - South Georgia Highballers
6)    Bibb County Grind - South Georgia Highballers
7)    Barber's Blues - Frankie Marvin
8)    Dust Pan Blues - Frankie Marvin
9)    I'm Blue and Lonesome - Frankie Marvin/Gene Autry
10)    Do Right Daddy Blues - Gene Autry
11)    Black Bottom Blues - Gene Autry
12)    Rheumatism Blues, The - Gene Autry
13)    Do Right Daddy Blues - Gene Autry
14)    Oozlin' Daddy Blues - Cliff Hobbs/Bill Cox
15)    Kansas City Blues - Cliff Hobbs/Bill Cox
16)    Long Chain Charlie Blues - Bill Cox
17)    Georgia Brown Blues - Bill Cox
18)    Got the Drunken Blues - Bill Cox
19)    NRA Blues - Bill Cox
20)    Arkansas Hard Luck Blues - Lonnie Glosson
21)    New Talking Blues - Hershal Brown
22)    Puckett Blues - Riley Puckett
23)    I Get the Blues When It Rains - Riley Puckett
24)    Old Lonesome Blues - Bowman Sisters
25)    Mistreated Blues - The Carolina Buddies
1)    Cocaine - Dick Justice
2)    Brown Skin Blues - Dick Justice
3)    Old Black Dog - Dick Justice
4)    Poca River Blues - Dick Justice/Jarvis/Reese Jarvis
5)    Bread Line Blues - Slim Smith
6)    Depot Blues - Crowder Brothers
7)    Dark Holler Blues - Clarence Ashley
8)    Haunted Road Blues - Clarence Ashley
9)    Bay Rum Blues - Clarence Ashley/Gwen Foster
10)    East Virginia Blues - Clarence Ashley/Gwen Foster
11)    Wilkes County Blues - Gwen Foster
12)    Crooked Creek Blues - Gwen Foster/Walter Davis
13)    Sisco Harmonica Blues - The Carver Boys
14)    Wang Wang Harmonica Blues - The Carver Boys
15)    Blowing Blues - Chuck Darling
16)    Choking Blues - Kyle Wooten
17)    Lost Boy Blues - Palmer McAbee
18)    Georgia Wobble Blues - Carroll County Revellers
19)    Worried Blues, The - Samantha Bumgarner
20)    Carroll County Blues - Fiddlin' Doc Roberts
21)    Cumberland Blues - Fiddlin' Doc Roberts
22)    Lonesome, Broke and Weary - Asa Martin & His Kentucky Hillbillies
23)    Stockade Blues - The Georgia Crackers
24)    Brown's Ferry Blues #2 - The Callahan Brothers
25)    Rattle Snake Daddy - Homer "Bill" Callahan
1)    Farm Girl Blues - The Carolina Tar Heels
2)    Apron String Blues - The Carolina Tar Heels
3)    I Don't Like the Blues No How - The Carolina Tar Heels
4)    Cross Tie Blues - Buster & Jack
5)    Pouring Down Blues - Buster & Jack
6)    Carroll County Blues - S.W. Smith/W.T. Narmour
7)    Tequila Hop Blues - Narmour/W.T. Narmour/S.W. Smith
8)    Bankhead Blues - Nations Brothers
9)    Railroad Blues - Nations Brothers
10)    Jake Legs Blues - Byrd Moore
11)    Killin' Blues - Jess Johnson/Byrd Moore
12)    Hesitation Blues - Reaves White County Ramblers
13)    Strawberry Blues - Reaves White County Ramblers
14)    Don't Let the Blues Get You Down - Buck Mountain Band
15)    Yodeling Blues - Buck Mountain Band
16)    I'm Sad and Blue - Perry County Music Makers
17)    Way Down Yonder Blues - Lemuel Turner
18)    Jake Bottle Blues - Lemuel Turner
19)    12th Street Blues - Dupree's County Boys
20)    Hometown Blues - The Roane County Ramblers
21)    Unexplained Blues - Lowe Stokes
22)    Left All Alone Again Blues - Lowe Stokes
23)    Bone Dry Blues - Lowe Stokes
24)    Dry Town Blues - The Leake County Revelers
25)    Leake County Blues - The Leake County Revelers
1)    Deep Elem Blues - The Prairie Ramblers
2)    Kentucky Blues - The Prairie Ramblers
3)    Go Easy Blues - The Prairie Ramblers
4)    V.B. Blues - Three Tobacco Tags
5)    Reno Blues - Three Tobacco Tags
6)    Jersey Bull Blues - Three Tobacco Tags
7)    Moatsville Blues - Moatsville String Ticklers
8)    Triangle Blues - New Roanoke Jug Band
9)    Tennessee River Bottom Blues - Mike Shaw's Alabama Entertainers
10)    Blues in a Bottle - Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers
11)    Married Life Blues - Oscar Ford, Jr.
12)    Travellin' Blues - Freeny Harmonisers
13)    Ginseng Blues - Kentucky Ramblers
14)    Stove Pipe Blues - Kentucky String Ticklers
15)    Leaving Here Blues - Kentucky String Ticklers
16)    Tipple Blues - Kentucky String Ticklers
17)    Patrick County Blues - J.W. Spangler/Pearson/Dave Pearson
18)    Cold Penitentiary Blues - George Edgin's Corn Dodgers
19)    Bath House Blues - Ashley's Melody Men
20)    I Never Felt So Blue - Ashley's Melody Men
21)    John Henry Blues - Earl Johnson & His Dixie Entertainers
22)    Huckleberry Blues - Dykes Magic City Trio
23)    Worried Man Blues - Rodgers & Nicholson
24)    Rip Van Winkle Blues - Bud Landress
25)    All Night Long Blues - Burnett & Rutherford/Richard Burnett/Leonard Rutherford
 

Album: Mountain Blues: Blues, Ballads & String Bands 1927-1938 [Box]
# Song Title   Time
1)    Match Box Blues - Larry Hensley
2)    Black Snake Moan - Cobb/Underwood/Cobb/Underwood
3)    Johnson City Blues - Clarence Green
4)    Franklin County Blues - The Dixie Ramblers
5)    Blue Grass Twist - South Georgia Highballers
6)    Bibb County Grind - South Georgia Highballers
7)    Barber's Blues - Frankie Marvin
8)    Dust Pan Blues - Frankie Marvin
9)    I'm Blue and Lonesome - Frankie Marvin/Gene Autry
10)    Do Right Daddy Blues - Gene Autry
11)    Black Bottom Blues - Gene Autry
12)    Rheumatism Blues, The - Gene Autry
13)    Do Right Daddy Blues - Gene Autry
14)    Oozlin' Daddy Blues - Cliff Hobbs/Bill Cox
15)    Kansas City Blues - Cliff Hobbs/Bill Cox
16)    Long Chain Charlie Blues - Bill Cox
17)    Georgia Brown Blues - Bill Cox
18)    Got the Drunken Blues - Bill Cox
19)    NRA Blues - Bill Cox
20)    Arkansas Hard Luck Blues - Lonnie Glosson
21)    New Talking Blues - Hershal Brown
22)    Puckett Blues - Riley Puckett
23)    I Get the Blues When It Rains - Riley Puckett
24)    Old Lonesome Blues - Bowman Sisters
25)    Mistreated Blues - The Carolina Buddies
1)    Cocaine - Dick Justice
2)    Brown Skin Blues - Dick Justice
3)    Old Black Dog - Dick Justice
4)    Poca River Blues - Dick Justice/Jarvis/Reese Jarvis
5)    Bread Line Blues - Slim Smith
6)    Depot Blues - Crowder Brothers
7)    Dark Holler Blues - Clarence Ashley
8)    Haunted Road Blues - Clarence Ashley
9)    Bay Rum Blues - Clarence Ashley/Gwen Foster
10)    East Virginia Blues - Clarence Ashley/Gwen Foster
11)    Wilkes County Blues - Gwen Foster
12)    Crooked Creek Blues - Gwen Foster/Walter Davis
13)    Sisco Harmonica Blues - The Carver Boys
14)    Wang Wang Harmonica Blues - The Carver Boys
15)    Blowing Blues - Chuck Darling
16)    Choking Blues - Kyle Wooten
17)    Lost Boy Blues - Palmer McAbee
18)    Georgia Wobble Blues - Carroll County Revellers
19)    Worried Blues, The - Samantha Bumgarner
20)    Carroll County Blues - Fiddlin' Doc Roberts
21)    Cumberland Blues - Fiddlin' Doc Roberts
22)    Lonesome, Broke and Weary - Asa Martin & His Kentucky Hillbillies
23)    Stockade Blues - The Georgia Crackers
24)    Brown's Ferry Blues #2 - The Callahan Brothers
25)    Rattle Snake Daddy - Homer "Bill" Callahan
1)    Farm Girl Blues - The Carolina Tar Heels
2)    Apron String Blues - The Carolina Tar Heels
3)    I Don't Like the Blues No How - The Carolina Tar Heels
4)    Cross Tie Blues - Buster & Jack
5)    Pouring Down Blues - Buster & Jack
6)    Carroll County Blues - S.W. Smith/W.T. Narmour
7)    Tequila Hop Blues - Narmour/W.T. Narmour/S.W. Smith
8)    Bankhead Blues - Nations Brothers
9)    Railroad Blues - Nations Brothers
10)    Jake Legs Blues - Byrd Moore
11)    Killin' Blues - Jess Johnson/Byrd Moore
12)    Hesitation Blues - Reaves White County Ramblers
13)    Strawberry Blues - Reaves White County Ramblers
14)    Don't Let the Blues Get You Down - Buck Mountain Band
15)    Yodeling Blues - Buck Mountain Band
16)    I'm Sad and Blue - Perry County Music Makers
17)    Way Down Yonder Blues - Lemuel Turner
18)    Jake Bottle Blues - Lemuel Turner
19)    12th Street Blues - Dupree's County Boys
20)    Hometown Blues - The Roane County Ramblers
21)    Unexplained Blues - Lowe Stokes
22)    Left All Alone Again Blues - Lowe Stokes
23)    Bone Dry Blues - Lowe Stokes
24)    Dry Town Blues - The Leake County Revelers
25)    Leake County Blues - The Leake County Revelers
1)    Deep Elem Blues - The Prairie Ramblers
2)    Kentucky Blues - The Prairie Ramblers
3)    Go Easy Blues - The Prairie Ramblers
4)    V.B. Blues - Three Tobacco Tags
5)    Reno Blues - Three Tobacco Tags
6)    Jersey Bull Blues - Three Tobacco Tags
7)    Moatsville Blues - Moatsville String Ticklers
8)    Triangle Blues - New Roanoke Jug Band
9)    Tennessee River Bottom Blues - Mike Shaw's Alabama Entertainers
10)    Blues in a Bottle - Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers
11)    Married Life Blues - Oscar Ford, Jr.
12)    Travellin' Blues - Freeny Harmonisers
13)    Ginseng Blues - Kentucky Ramblers
14)    Stove Pipe Blues - Kentucky String Ticklers
15)    Leaving Here Blues - Kentucky String Ticklers
16)    Tipple Blues - Kentucky String Ticklers
17)    Patrick County Blues - J.W. Spangler/Pearson/Dave Pearson
18)    Cold Penitentiary Blues - George Edgin's Corn Dodgers
19)    Bath House Blues - Ashley's Melody Men
20)    I Never Felt So Blue - Ashley's Melody Men
21)    John Henry Blues - Earl Johnson & His Dixie Entertainers
22)    Huckleberry Blues - Dykes Magic City Trio
23)    Worried Man Blues - Rodgers & Nicholson
24)    Rip Van Winkle Blues - Bud Landress
25)    All Night Long Blues - Burnett & Rutherford/Richard Burnett/Leonard Rutherford
 
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  • Personnel: Clarence Ashley (vocals, guitar, banjo); Bill Cox (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Clarence Green, Dick Justice, Slim Smith, Olfa Crowder, Neil Babb, Cliff Hobbs, Gene Autry, Walter "Joe" Callahan, Henry Chamblie, Homer "Bill" Callahan, Ortize Crowder, Hoke Rice, Larry Hensley, Lonnie Glosson, Riley Puckett, Asa Martin, Byrd Moore (vocals, guitar); Frankie Marvin (vocals, steel guitar); Emmett Bankston, Richard Burnett (vocals, banjo); Nonnie Presson Smith (vocals, zither); Earl Johnson & His Dixie Entertainers , Oscar Ford, Jr., Bud Landress (vocals, fiddle); Dan Hornsby, Hazel J. Lowery, Walter "Kid" Smith (vocals); Garley Foster, Salty Holmes (guitar, harmonica); Dan Pearson, Mahlon B. Overstreet, L.K. Sentell, Hub Mahaffey, Claude Davis, Fred Rumble, Vanessa Edwards, Ben Evans, Robert Carver, Wally Wimbly, Marshall Nations, Ray Barger, Noble "Bozo" Carver, Walter Davis, Melvin Dupree, Norman Woodlief, J. Roberts, Vander Everidge, Dallas Jones, S.W. Smith, Luke Brandon (guitar); Hobart N. Ashley, King Bennie Nawahi, Roy Smeck (steel guitar); Walter Keith, Howard Wyatt, John Patterson , Bill Dubois, Doc Walsh, Leon Cofer, Homer Treat, Oddis Burgher, Jim Wolverton, Wade Ward (banjo); Bert Layne (tenor banjo, fiddle); Carlton Freeny (tenor banjo); Myrtle Vermillion (autoharp); Chick Hurt (mandola); John V. Kelly Sr., Fred Locklear, Rick Mitchell, R. Mosley (mandolin); Clayton McMichen, Ike Reaves, Ira Ellis, Odell Smith, J.W. Spangler, Anson Fuller, Fiddlin' Doc Roberts, Leonard Rutherford, Jess Chamblie, Will Gilmer, Jimmy McCarroll, Silas Rodgers, Paul Cofer, Shelton Nations, Billy Altizer, Lowe Stokes, Jesse Johnson's Revue, John Dykes, Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers, Tex Atchison, W.T. Narmour (fiddle); Chuck Darling, Henry Bone, Gwen Foster, Kyle Wooten, Palmer McAbee (harmonica); K.D. Malone (clarinet); Bunk Lane (piano); Lonnie Reaves (organ).
  • Liner Note Author: Pat Harrison.
  • Recording information: Atlanta, GA (03/10/1927-08/23/1939); Augusta, GA (03/10/1927-08/23/1939); Birmingham, AL (03/10/1927-08/23/1939); Chicago, IL (03/10/1927-08/23/1939); Columbia, SC (03/10/1927-08/23/1939); Jackson, MS (03/10/1927-08/23/1939); Johnson City, TN (03/10/1927-08/23/1939); Knoxville, TN (03/10/1927-08/23/1939); Memphis, TN (03/10/1927-08/23/1939); New Orleans, LA (03/10/1927-08/23/1939); New York, NY (03/10/1927-08/23/1939); Richmond, IN (03/10/1927-08/23/1939); Richmond, VA (03/10/1927-08/23/1939); San Antonio, TX (03/10/1927-08/23/1939).
  • Country has been called the white man's blues, but the phrase has probably only been truly accurate when applied to the so-called hillbilly records from the 1920s and 1930s, the period and genre covered by this four-disc, 100-track anthology from JSP. Not that everything here is actually blues (the string band selections in particular are really dance reels that happened to have the word "blues" in the title), and a fair portion of these cuts don't have any real geographical association with the Southern mountains, either, but you have to give a box set a title, so Mountain Blues it is. With hindsight, a lot of these performances seem a bit generic, but there is a lot here, as well, that is startling in its freshness, even at a 75-year distance. Disc A gives us "Blue Grass Twist" (which isn't bluegrass, mind you) by the South Georgia Highballers, featuring some amazing guitar work from Vander Everidge and some stylish, almost pop guitar from Riley Puckett (best known for his work in the Skillet Lickers string band) on "I Get the Blues When It Rains." Disc B presents Slim Smith's jaunty "Bread Line Blues," Clarence Ashley's spooky modal banjo classic "Dark Hollow Blues," and Samantha Bumgarner's fragile singing and strong banjo on "The Worried Blues," a version of "Going Down the Road Feeling Bad." Highlights of the third disc include the steel guitar work of Lemuel Turner on "Way Down Yonder Blues" and "Jake Bottle Blues," and the zither playing of Nonnie Smith (who would enjoy a bit of a musical revival 40 years later in the 1970s) on the Perry County Music Makers' "I'm Sad and Blue." The final disc features the amazing sound of Texas fiddle master Prince Albert Hunt on "Blues in a Bottle" (which the Lovin' Spoonful -- minus the fiddle -- would cover successfully in the 1960s) and closes with the venerable guitar-and-fiddle team of Richard Burnett and Leonard Rutherford on "All Night Long Blues." Perhaps a bit too extensive for the casual listener, Mountain Blues will certainly please collectors and historians interested in the era covered, and it's difficult to imagine a more comprehensive set of white blues 78s. The liner notes are a bit on the brief side, but they cover the basics, although the track notes that list the players and instruments aren't always accurate. Still, there's so much music here, it's hard to quibble. ~ Steve Leggett
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