Dry Bones � Bascom Lamar Lunsford. 1928. (secular song with own banjo acc.)
Bascom Lamar Lunsford. Mars Hill, N.C. 1882 � 1973. Without him, �traditional� music may well have disappeared. He spent seven decades collecting songs as well as being a musician & songwriter.. He wrote several standards himself & spent many years recording for the Library of congress. Was also responsible for keeping the tradition of �Buck dancing� alive. (An amalgam of Scottish, Irish, Black & Cherokee dancing).
I wish I was a mole in the ground � Bascom Lamar Lunsford. 1928. (surrealistic folk song with own banjo).
I,m going to take the train...... � Fiddlin� John Carson. 1928. Roots n, blues.
Swannee River � Fiddlin� John Carson. About 1928.
Bachelors Hall � Fiddlin� John Carson. About 1928.
Country Blues - Dock Boggs. 1928
Sugar baby- Dock Boggs. 1928.
Dock Boggs. - Wise County,Virginia. 1898-1971. Raw white country blues.
With a voice just a few steps away from primitive & a banjo he picked like a guitar instead of strumming or flailing, as was the common practise, Dock Boggs music was as chilling, raw & thoroughly mesmerising as nearly anything that emerged from Appalachia in the 1920,s. He is said to bridge the worlds of black blues & white folk music.
Peg & Awl � Carolina Tar heels. 1929. (inc. Clarence �Tom� Ashley. Probably early American song) Doc Walsh-Banjo. Clarence �Tom� Ashley- Guitar. Garley Foster- Harmonica/Guitar.
The Tar Heels were formed in 1927, recorded for Victor, and were fronted through the years by Doc Walsh on guitar and banjo, eventually joined by the well-known Clarence Tom Ashley, among others.In the early �30�s THEY were forced to change their name to the Original Carolina Tar heels, due to the founding of another band using the same name. The �Original� � had the most talented players & were hugely influential on the Bluegrass that was to follow over a decade later.
Frankie & Johnny � Jimmie Rodgers. 1929.
Frankie Dean - Darby & Tarlton. 1930. White country blues. (a version of Frankie & Johnny)
Darby & Tarlton. - Tom Darby. 1880,s-1971. Columbus. Georgia. Johnny James Rimbert Tarlton. 1892-1979. Chesterfield County.South Carolina.
The vocal harmonies & shimmering steel guitar make the music of Darby & Tarlton stunning but surreal. A strange blend of blues, folk, Hawaiian, & western influences, it,s like something from another planet - yet at the same time grounded in southern soil. They recorded together between 1927 & 1933, & two of their earliest songs "Columbus stockade blues" & "Birmingham jail"are country standards. Tarlton,s steel guitar playing was some of the best of the era & if his falsetto does,nt give you the chills nothing will.!
Down on Penny,s farm � Bently boys. 1929. (sums up the start of the depression).
Nothing known about them. Bob Dylan retitled song �Maggie,s Farm�.
Man of constant sorrow - Emry Arthur. 1929. American Roots.
Emry Arthur. Wayne county, Kentucky.1900-1966.
Sang & played guitar.
Man of constant sorrow - Bob Dylan. 1962. Bob Dylan.
Man of constant sorrow � Sharon Shannon. 2000. Diamond Mountain Sessions.
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