Bristol Sessions 1927-28-Big Bang of Country Music [Import]
Various
CD BOX Rel Date: 2011-03-01
5-CD set + 120 page LP size hardcover book. The recording trip made by Victor Records to Bristol, Tennessee in July-August 1927 was a defining moment in country music. Producer Ralph Peer found two acts that acquired national and international fame: Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family. But more than a hundred other recordings were made at the Bristol sessions of 1927 and '28. There were ballad singers, street evangelists, string bands, gospel quartets, harmonica virtuosos, Holiness preachers, blues guitarists and rural storytellers. A snapshot of rural American music was caught in an era of rapid change: pictures of a past almost beyond recall, but preserved for ever in these magnificent recordings. The five CDs in this set gather every surviving recording from these sessions, including alternative takes. The accompanying 120- page, LP-sized hardcover book contains newly researched essays on the background to the sessions and on the individual artists, with many rare and unpublished photographs. Also included are complete song lyrics and a detailed discography, illustrated with reproductions of the original recording sheets.
Tracklist:
- The Dying Girl's Farewell
- Tell Mother I Will Meet Her
- The Mountaineer's Courtship
- Midnight on the Stormy Deep
- Sweeping Through the Gates
- I Know My Name Is There
- Are You Washed in the Blood?
- No More Good-Byes
- The Resurrection [Take 1] [Take] 1
- The Resurrection [Take 2] [Take] 1
- I Am Resolved [Take 1] [Take] 1
- I Am Resolved [Take 2] [Take] 1
- I Want to Go Where Jesus Is 1
- Do, Lord, Remember Me 1
- Old Ship of Zion 1
- Jesus Getting Us Ready for That Great Day 1
- Happy in Prison 1
- Don't Grieve After Me 1
- What Will I Do, for My Money's All Gone 2
- The Whip-Poor-Will's Song 2
- Skip to Ma Lou, My Darling 2
- Barney McCoy 2
- Old Time Corn Shuckin, Part 1 2
- Old Time Corn Shuckin, Part 2 2
- The Jealous Sweetheart [Take 1] [Take] 2
- The Jealous Sweetheart [Take 2] [Take] 2
- A Passing Policeman 2
- Just a Message from Carolina 2
- The Wreck of the Virginian [Take 1] [Take] 3
- The Wreck of the Virginian [Take 2] [Take] 3
- I Mean to Live for Jesus 3
- You Must Unload 3
- Walking in the Way with Jesus [Take 1] [Take] 3
- Walking in the Way with Jesus [Take 2] [Take] 3
- Two Brothers Are We 3
- The Soldier's Poor Little Boy 3
- I Want to See My Mother (Ten Thousand Miles a 3
- Pot Liquor Blues 3
- Narrow Gauge Blues 4
- Cold Penitentiary Blues 4
- Oh Molly Dear 4
- Pretty Polly 4
- Darling Cora 4
- Called to the Foreign Field 4
- I Am Bound for the Promised Land 4
- Where We'll Never Grow Old 4
- When They Ring the Golden Bells 4
- To the Work 4
- Train on the Island 5
- Black-Eyed Susie 5
- Johnny Goodwin 5
- Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow 5
- Little Log Cabin By the Sea 5
- The Poor Orphan Child 5
- The Storms Are on the Ocean 5
- Single Girl, Married Girl 5
- The Wandering Boy 5
- Remember Me, O Mighty One 5
- I'm Redeemed 6
- Henry Whitter's Fox Chase 6
- Rain Crow Bill 6
- Big Bend Gal 6
- Suzanna Gal 6
- Sandy River Belle [Take 1] [Take] 6
- Sandy River Belle [Take 2] [Take] 6
- Billy Grimes, the Rover 6
- The Newmarket Wreck 6
- On the Banks of the Sunny Tennessee 6
- The Soldier S Sweetheart 7
- Sleep Baby Sleep 7
- The Longest Train I Ever Saw 7
- Sweet Heaven When I Die 7
- Miss Liza, Poor Gal 7
- Greasy String 7
- Your Blue Eyes Run Me Crazy 7
- Standing on the Promises 7
- Shall We Gather at the River 7
- My Name Is Ticklish Reuben 7
- Way Down in Alabama 8
- Do Not Wait 'Till I'm Laid 'Neath the Clay 8
- The Days of My Childhood Plays 8
- We Shall All Be Reunited 8
- If the Light Has Gone Out in Your Soul 8
- Went Up in the Clouds of Heaven 8
- I Know That Jesus Set Me Free 8
- Shine on Me 8
- Bright Tomorrow 8
- A Little Talk with Jesus 8
- I Cannot Be Your Sweetheart 9
- Three Black Sheep 9
- Good-Night Darling 9
- The Broken-Hearted Lover 9
- Angeline, the Baker 9
- Old Shoes and Leggin's 9
- We Parted By the Riverside 9
- Down to Jordan and Be Saved 9
- There's a Light Lit Up in Galilee 9
- Going Up the Mountain After Liquor, Part 1 9
- Going Up the Mountain After Liquor, Part 2 10
- The Spanish Merchant's Daughter 10
- Too Late 10
- I'll Be Happy 10
- Like the Rainbow 10
- Because I Love Him 10
- Come to the Savior 10
- Do Your Best, Then Wear a Smile 10
- We Shall Reach Home 10
- My Mother Is Waiting for Me in Heaven Above 10
- She Has Climbed the Golden Stair 11
- We LL Sing on That Shore 11
- Singing the Story of Grace 11
- Help Me to Find the Way 11
- He LL Be with Me 11
- Brownie Blues 11
- Unknown Blues 11
- Where Is My Mamma? 11
- When You Go a Courtin' 11
- I Sat Upon the River Bank 11
- New Orleans Is the Town I Like Best 12
- She Tells Me That I Am Sweet 12
- Mr. Brown, Here I Come 12
- I Truly Understand, You Love Another Man 12
- My Mother's Hands