The Edge Of AmericanaAll the Beasts of the Land!

We got mules, we got cows, we got horses, ponies and doggies; we got chickens and gooses, and more!

We found a nice well of tunes to mine, this theme may persist for a while, so sit back and enjoy the animals!

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JB&OK

Artist / Song / Album / Label

Sweet Violet Boys / Jim's Windy Mule / Columbia 20341 / Lonesome Lefty's Attic
Hoyt Ming and His Pep Steppers / White Mule / Mississippi String Bands, Volume 1, 1928 – 1935 / Document
Charlie Poole / I'm The Man That Rode The Mule Around The World / Charlie Poole With The Highlanders, The North Carolina Ramblers / JSP
Lil' Dave Thompson / Whoa, Mule, Whoa / Classic Field Recordings / JSP

Mike Seeger / Flop Eared Mule / Southern Banjo Sounds / Smithsonian Folkways
George R. Gibson / Wife And Mule Swap / Last Possum Up The Tree / Appalshop
George R. Gibson / Cacklin' Hen / Last Possum Up The Tree / Appalshop
Kirk McGee and Blythe Poteet / C-H-I-C-K-E-N Spells Chicken / Good For What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows, 1926 – 1937 / Old Hat
Wayne Henderson and Helen White / Story: Too Much Chicken / Live From Hendersonville / Self Released
The New Ballard's Branch Bogtrotters / Chicken Reel / The Galax Way / Heritage
Roan Mountain Hilltoppers / Cacklin' Hen / Down Home / County

Bessie Jones and The Georgia Sea Island Singers / Sheep, Sheep, Don'tcha Know The Road / Southern Journey, Volume 6: Sheep, Sheep Don'tcha Know the Road / Rounder
Fiddlin' Arthur Smith, The McGee Brothers / Milk Cow Blues / Milk 'Em in the Evening Blues / Folkways
Texas Gladden / Whole Heap A Little Horses / Southern Journey, Volume 2: Ballads and Breakdowns / Rounder
Bill Monroe & his Blue Grass Boys / Molly And Tenbrooks / 1959-66 Newport Folk Festival: The Best Of Bluegrass / Vanguard
Jimmy Martin / Chattanooga Dog / Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys, 1954 – 1974 / Bear Family
The Almanac Singers / I Ride An Old Paint / Songs Of Protest / Prism

Pete Seeger / Old Blue / American Favorite Ballads, III / Smithsonian Folkways
EARL JOHNSON / Old Grey Mare Kicking Out Of The Wilderness / Roots of American Fiddle Music – Volume 2 / http://1001tunes.com
Wilmoth Houdini / Tiger Tom Kill Tiger Cat, Damblay, Santapie & Rat / How Low Can You Go? 1925-1941 / Dust to Digital
Six Jumping Jacks / Horses / Vol. 1-Six Jumping Jacks / Document

John Ashby and The Free State Ramblers / Rattlesnake Bit the Baby / John Ashby & the Free State Ramblers / Field Recorders Collective
Andy Thorn & Friends / The Snake / Bolin Creek / Self Released
Cephas and Wiggins / Pigmeat Crave / Richmond Blues /
Blind Boy Fuller / What's that Smell Like Fish? / Rude Dudes / Document
The Light Crust Doughboys / Pussy Pussy Pussy (1938) / The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, & Cowboys – Tobacco State Swing / Proper

John M. Salyer 1882-1952 / Fish On A Snag / Home Recordings Volume 2 / Berea College
Ruby Monroe Hicks / Muskrat / Nothing Seems Better To Me: The Warner Collection, Volume 2 / Appleseed
Doc Watson / Muskrat / The Vanguard Years / Vangaurd
CLAYTON MCMICHEN & RILEY PUCKETT / Old Molly Hare / Roots of American Fiddle Music – Volume 3 / http://1001tunes.com
Lead Belly / Bull Cow / Leadbelly ARC & Library of Congress Recordings, Volume 1, 1934-1935 / Document
Dr. Humphrey Bate & His Possum Hunters / Throw The Old Cow Over The Fence / Nashville: The Early String Bands – 1 / County

Robert Johnson / Milkcow's Calf Blues / King of the Delta Blues Singers / Columbia
Nathan Frazier (banjo and vocal) and Frank Patterson (fiddle) / Old Cow Died / Altamont: Black Stringband Music / Altamont
Vera Ward Hall (with John Lomax bossing her around) / Come Up Horsey / Deep River of Song: Alabama / Rounder
Gus Cannon & his Jug Stompers / Mule Get Up in the Alley / 1927-30 Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers / Yazoo
Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters / Cluck Old Hen / The Hill Billies / Volume 2, 1926 – 1927 / Document
Ed Haley / Wild Horse / Grey Eagle Vol. 2 / Rounder

New Ballards Branch Bogtrotters / Ducks On The Millpond / Tribute to the Past / Heritage
Red Belcher & His Kentucky Ridgerunners / Old Grey Goose / The Domestic Front / Rounder Select
Benton Flippen and Smokey Valley Boys / Pole Cat Blues / An Evening At Wpaq, 1984 /
Buddy Thomas / The Blue Goose / Kitty Puss-Old Time Fiddle Music /
Lord Flea / Donkey Bray (The Jackass Song) / Jamaica-Mento, 1951-1958 /