Johnson City Sessions 1928-29 / Various: Johnson City Sessions 1928-29 / Various

Johnson City Sessions 1928-29 / Various: Johnson City Sessions 1928-29 / Various

Johnson City Sessions 1928-29 / Various: Johnson City Sessions 1928-29 / Various

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Description

Title: Johnson City Sessions 1928-29 / Various
Artist: Johnson City Sessions 1928-29 / Various
Label: Bear Family Germany
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5397102160837
Genre: Country, Box Sets

EU-only four CD collection. The Johnson City Sessions were a series of recording auditions conducted in Johnson City, Tennessee, in 1928 and 1929 by Frank Buckley Walker, head of the Columbia Records Hillbilly recordings division. Bear Family Records has gathered the entire issued output of the 1928-29 Johnson City sessions. This is the first time all 100 songs have been issued together... and the first time many have been heard since the Depression. The accompanying 136-page, LP-size hardcover book contains newly researched essays on the background to the sessions and the artists, with many rare and unpublished photographs. Also included are complete song lyrics and a detailed discography.

Tracks:
1.1 Shell Creek Quartet: My Boyhood Days
1.2 Back Where the Old Home Stands
1.3 Grant Brothers ; Their Music: When a Man Is Married
1.4 Goodbye My Honey - I'm Gone
1.5 Tell It to Me
1.6 Johnson Boy
1.7 Roane County Ramblers: Home Town Blues
1.8 Southern No. 111
1.9 Step High Waltz
1.10 Tennessee Waltz
1.11 Renus Rich ; Carl Bradshaw: Goodbye Sweetheart
1.12 Sleep Baby Sleep
1.13 Clarence Green ; the Wise Brothers: Pride of the Ball
1.14 Kitty Waltz
1.15 Clarence Green: Johnson City Blues
1.16 Ninety-Nine Years in Jail
1.17 Proximity String Quartet: Lindy
1.18 Louise
1.19 Greensboro Boys Quartet: Sing Me a Song of the Sunny South
1.20 Sweet Little Girl of Mine
1.21 Richard Harold: The Battleship Maine
1.22 The Fisher's Maid
1.23 Sweet Bird
1.24 Mary Dear
2.1 Bowman Sisters: My Old Kentucky Home
2.2 Swanee River
2.3 Charlie Bowman ; His Brothers: Roll on Buddy
2.4 Gonna Raise the Ruckus Tonight
2.5 Bill ; Belle Reed: You Shall Be Free
2.6 Old Lady and the Devil
2.7 The Reed Children: I'll Be All Smiles Tonight
2.8 I Once Did Have a Sweetheart
2.9 McVay ; Johnson: Ain't Going to Lay My Armor Down
2.10 I'll Be Ready When the Bridegroom Comes
2.11 Earl Shirkey ; Roy Harper: Steamboat Man
2.12 When the Roses Bloom for the Bootlegger
2.13 Poor Little Joe
2.14 We Parted at the Gate
2.15 George Roark: I Ain't a Bit Drunk
2.16 My Old Coon Dog
2.17 Ed Helton Singers: A Storm on the Sea (The Sinking of the Steamship Vestris)
2.18 My Old Cottage Home
2.19 Garland Brothers ; Grinstead: Just Over the River
2.20 Beautiful
2.21 McCartt Brothers ; Patterson: Green Valley Waltz
2.22 Over the Sea Waltz
2.23 Blalock ; Yates: Morning Star Waltz
2.24 Pride of the Ball
2.25 Jack Jackson: Flat Tire Blues
2.26 My Alabama Home
3.1 George Wade ; Francum Braswell: Think a Little
3.2 When We Go a Courtin'
3.3 Jack Jackson: In Our Little Home Sweet Home
3.4 I'm Just a Black Sheep
3.5 Roane County Ramblers: Free a Little Bird - 1930 Model
3.6 Johnson City Rag
3.7 Callahan Rag
3.8 Alabama Trot
3.9 Wyatt ; Brandon: Evalina
3.10 Lover's Farewell
3.11 Roy Harvey ; Leonard Copeland: Just Pickin'
3.12 Beckley Rag
3.13 Underneath the Sugar Moon
3.14 Lonesome Weary Blues
3.15 The Spindale Quartet: Sweet Peace the Gift of God's Love
3.16 God Will Take Care of You
3.17 Face to Face
3.18 Lift Him Up
3.19 Earl Shirkey ; Roy Harper: The Virginian Strike of '23
3.20 The Policeman's Little Child
3.21 My Yodeling Sweetheart
3.22 I'm Longing to Belong to Someone
3.23 We Have Moonshine in the West Virginia Hills
3.24 A Hobo's Pal
3.25 Moatsville String Ticklers: The West Virginia Hills
3.26 Moatsville Blues
4.1 Weaver Brothers: You Came Back to Me
4.2 Prison Sorrows
4.3 Byrd Moore ; His Hot Shots: Frankie Silvers
4.4 The Hills of Tennessee
4.5 Careless Love
4.6 Three Men Went a Hunting
4.7 Bateman Sacred Quartet: Nothing Like Old Time Religion
4.8 Some Day
4.9 Fred Richards: My Katie
4.10 Danville Blues
4.11 Clarence Ashley: Dark Holler Blues
4.12 The Coo-Coo Bird
4.13 Little Sadie
4.14 Naomi Wise
4.15 The Bentley Boys: Down on Penny's Farm
4.16 Henhouse Blues
4.17 Bowman Sisters: Railroad Take Me Back
4.18 Old Lonesome Blues
4.19 Ephraim Woodie ; the Henpecked Husbands: Last Gold Dollar
4.20 The Fatal Courtship
4.21 Ira ; Eugene Yates: Powder and Paint
4.22 Sarah Jane
4.23 Ellis Williams: Buttermilk Blues
4.24 Smokey Blues
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