The name old-time music came from the 78 rpm recordings that told the listener what to expect. Our next two episodes will be tracing old-time music from it’s earliest recordings to today’s fine players

LISTEN:

Artist / “Title” / CD / Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / Songs Of Hope And Struggle / Smithsonian-Folkways

WM Stepp / “Bonaparte’s Retreat” / Music of Kentucky Vol.1 / Yazoo
Polk Miller / “The Bonny Blue Flag” / Polk Miller and his Old South Quartett / Tompkins Square
Eck Robertson & Henry Gilliand / “Arkansas Traveler” / Old-Time Texas Fiddler / County
Fiddlin’ John Carson / “The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane” / Vol.1 1923-25 /Document
Uncle Jimmy Thompson / “Lynchburg” / The Corn Husker’s Frolic Vol. 2 / Yazoo

The Carter Family / “The Poor Orphan Child” / In the Shadow of the Clinch / Mountain / Bear Family
Jimmie Rodgers / “Blue Yodel #8” / America’s Blue Yodeler 1930-31 / Rounder
Uncle Dave Macon / “Way Down the Old Plank Road” / Go ‘Long Mule / County
WM Stepp / “The Ways of the World” / Music of Kentucky Vol. 1 / Yazoo

Addie Graham / “Pretty Polly” / Been A Long Time Traveling / June Appal
French Carpenter / “Camp Chase” / Back Roads to Cold Mountain / Smithsonian-Folkways
Doc Watson / “Skillet Good and Greasy” / The Original Folkways Recordings 1960-62 /
        Smithsonian-Folkways
Frank Proffitt / “Sourwood Mountain” / Traditional Songs and Ballads of Appalachia /Folk-Legacy

The Skillet Lickers / “Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss” / Old-Time Fiddle Tunes and Songs from
        North Georgia / County
Charlie Poole and The North Carolina Ramblers / “Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down” Old-Time
        Songs / County
Da Costa Woltz’s Southern Broadcasters / “John Brown’s Dream” / 1927-1929 / Document
Tommy Jarrell-Fred Cockerham-Oscar Jenkins / “Ground Hog” / Stay All Night / County

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian-Folkways