The Music of Kentucky, Vol. 1: Early American Rural Classics 1927-1937 / Yazoo CD-2013

Description

Yazoo CD 2013 / Compiled on this exciting release are some of the greatest recordings of early American rural music ever made. This volume presents an array of all-time great traditional masters of early country fiddling, banjo & guitar playing, and singing. These recordings were captured at a period during the golden age of recording when traditional styles were at their peak of power and emotion, and have been painstakingly remastered from ultra-rare original recordings using state-of-the-art digital techniques. CD includes extensive notes and beautiful period photographs that work together with the music to communicate an exciting sense of discovery.

1. ALFRED KARNES, Called to the Foreign Field

2. B.F. SHELTON, Pretty Polly

3. W.M. STEPP, The Ways of the World

4. KENTUCKY RAMBLERS, The Unfortunate Brakeman

5. ERNEST PHIPPS & HIS HOLINESS QUARTET, I Want To Go Where Jesus Is

6. ALEX HOOD’S RAILROAD BOYS, L and N Rag

7. ALFRED KARNES, I Am Bound for the Promised Land

8. W.M. STEPP, Bonaparte’s Retreat

9. KENTUCKY RAMBLERS, With My Mother Dead and Gone

10. ERNEST PHIPPS & HIS HOLINESS SINGERS, A Little Talk With Jesus

11. WALKER’S CORBIN RAMBLERS, Ned Went A Fishin’

12. B.F. SHELTON, Darling Cora

13. W.M. STEPP, Callahan

14. KENTUCKY RAMBLERS, Ginseng Blues

15. ERNEST PHIPPS & HIS HOLINESS SINGERS, If the Light Has Gone Out of Your Soul

16. ALFRED KARNES, We Shall All Be Reunited

17. W.M. STEPP AND MAE PUCKETT, The Old Hen She Cackled

18. KENTUCKY RAMBLERS, Do Not Wait Till I’m Laid Beneath the Clay

19. B.F. SHELTON, Oh Molly Dear

20. ERNEST PHIPPS & HIS HOLINESS QUARTET, Don’t Grieve After Me

21. W.M. STEPP AND WALTER WILLIAMS, Mud Fence

22. ALFRED KARNES, Where We’ll Never Grow Old

23. WALKER’S CORBIN RAMBLERS, Ruffles and Bustles

24. ERNEST PHIPPS & HIS HOLINESS SINGERS, Shine On Me

25. W.M. STEPP, Silver Strand

26. KENTUCKY RAMBLERS, Glory to the Lamb