The Edge Of AmericanaJosh and Otto Celebrate a Late Mother’s Day for Our Mommies

Barbara Bearman and Andrea Konrad, these songs are for you (listeners can think of your own mothers, if you like).

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Disregard the many mentions of death, old time's just a morbid genre.

JB&OK

Artist / Song Title / Album / Label

Bud Billings & Carson Robinson / You'll Never Miss Your Mother Till She's Gone / Victor 21586 – B / Victor
Barbeque Bob / Motherless Chile Blues / Complete Recorded Works, Vol I / Document
Felix Dukes and Mississippi Fred McDowell / Motherless Children / Sounds of the South, Volume 4: American Folk Songs for Children / Folkways
Ward Jarvis / Old Mother Flannagan / Recordings From The Collection Of Jeff Goehring / Field Recorders Collective
Ricky Skaggs / Mother's Only Sleeping / Honoring The Fathers of Bluegrass Tribute to 1946 and 1947 / Skaggs Family

The Armstrong Twins / Mother's Only Sleeping / Mandolin Boogie / Arhoolie
Woody Guthrie / I Want My Milk / Songs to Grow On for Mother and Child / Folkways
Bad Livers / I'm Goin' Back To Mom And Dad / Industry & Thrift / Sugar Hill
Narmour & Smith / Sweet Milk and Peaches / Roots and Blues: The Retrospective / Sony
Abe Horton and Harold Hausenfluck / Mother's Prayer / Sweet Sunny South / Heritage

Doc Watson / Mama Don't Allow / Memories / United Artists
Hunger Mountain Boys / Scatterbrain Mama / Three / Old Fi
Dorothy Howard / I Dropped the Baby / Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still: Warner collection Volume I / Appleseed
John Jackson / Trucking Little Baby / Don't Let Your Deal Go Down / Rounder
Walter Cole / Mama Keep Your Yes Ma´am Clean / Cincinnati Blues (1920-36) / Catfish
E.C. Ball / Sweetest Mother / E.C. Ball with Orna Ball / Rounder
Fred Van Eps / Lonesome Mama Blues / Edison 78 / Edison

Lester & Linda McCumbers / Shake My Mother's Hand For Me / Old Timey Tunes of Central West VA / WiseKrack
Roscoe Holcomb / Motherless Children / The High Lonesome Sound / Folkways
Mississippi John Hurt / Will The Circle Be Unbroken? / DC Blues Library of Congress Recordings Vol II / Fuel 2000
Red Allen / Shake Hands With Mother Again / The Folkways Years 1964 – 1983 / Folkways
Dan Paisley & Southern Grass / Don't Throw Mama's Flowers Away / The Room Over Mine / Rounder

John Hartford / Let Him Go On Mama / Live / None
Georgia Yellow Hammers / Ma, Pa, and Me / The Moonshine Hollow Band / Rounder
The Fox Hunt / Grandmommy Take A Look At Uncle Sam / America's Working So We Don't Have To / Skull City
Nee Ningy Band / Annie Had a Baby / Nee Ningy Band / Field Recorders Collective
Gus Cannon & his Jug Stompers / Pretty Mama Blues / 1927-30 Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers / Yazoo

Rebecca King Jones / Rocky By Baby / Nothing Seems Better To Me: Warner Collection Volume II / Appleseed
Ralph Stanley / Motherless Children / A Distant Land To Roam: Songs of the Carter Family / Columbia
Big Joe Williams / Mama Don't Allow Me To Fool Around All Night Long / Mississippi's Big Joe Williams And His Nine-String Guitar / Folkways
Elizabeth cotton / Home Sweet Home / When I'm Gone / Folkways
Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / Memories of Mother and Dad / 1965-73 Pioneering Women of Bluegrass / Folkways
Jimmie Rodgers / Mother, The Queen of My Heart / The Singing Brakeman / Bear Family

John Haywood / Mistreated Mamma / Vol II / Self
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band / Will The Circle Be Unbroken? / Will The Circle Be Unbroken? / United Artists