The Edge Of AmericanaChoice Cuts Released in 2011 and Remembrances of Those Who Moved On.

Paul David Smith (1933-2011)

Another big year for new things coming in and great folks going out.  

We take a quick tour of both.

Enjoy!

JB&OK

Artist / Song Title / Album / Label

Blue Highway / I Ain't Gonna Lay My Hammer Down / Sounds Of Home / Rounder
Old Sledge / Danville Girl / Don't Let Your Deal Go Down / Self
Laura Veirs / Jump Down Spin Around / Tumble Bee / Nonesuch
Benton Flippen & Smokey Valley Boys / Go Home / An Evening At Wpaq, 1984 / 5-String

Del McCoury Band & the Preservation Hall Jazz Band / The Band's In Town / Del McCoury Band & the Preservation Hall Jazz Band / McCoury Music & Preservation Hall
Del McCoury Band / Girl in the Blue Velvet Band / Old Memories: The Songs of Bill Monroe / McCoury Music
Abigail Washburn / Devine Bell / City of Refuge / New Rounder
Hazel Dickens / The Yablonski Murder / Music Of Coal: Mining Songs From The Applachian Coalfields / Full Lights
Hazel Dickens / Nice Like That / Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / Rounder

Paul David Smith and Elmer Rich / Golden Slippers / Augusta Heritage Center Old Time – August 2011 / None
Paul David Smith / Red Apple Rag / Morehead Old Time Festival 2011 / None
Chris Thile & Michael Daves / Billy In The Lowground / Sleep with One Eye Open / Nonesuch
Kenny Baker / Washington County / Master Fiddler / County

Kirk Sutphin and Riley Baugus / Wild Bill Jones / Long-Time Piedmont Pals / Old Blue
Hogslop String Band / Johnson's Old Gray Mule / Vol. Two – The Butcher Shoppe Sessions / Self
Washington Phillips / Mother's Last Word to Her Son / Never a Pal Like Mother / Dust to Digital
The Wilders / She Says (I Say) / The Wilders / Free Dirt
Jim Lauderdale / Cruel Wind And Rain / Reason and Rhyme: Bluegrass Songs By Robert Hunter & Jim Lauderdale / Yep Roc
The Wronglers / Brown's Dream / Live at SXSW / Self

Diana Jones / Motherless Children / High Atmosphere / Proper
Stoney Cooper and Wilma Lee / Wicked Path Of Sin / Ju 5003 / http://www.juneberry78s.com
Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper / Big Midnight Special / Natonal Grand Ol Opry 1965 / None
Dori Freeman / Whipperwill is Whispering Goodnight / Porchlight / Self
Jake Krack & Nina Pinto / Wagoner / Old Place / Self
Black Twig Pickers / Don't Drink Nothing But Corn / Ironto Special / Thrill Jockey

David "Honeyboy" Edwards / Rocks In My Pillow / Delta Bluesman / Earwig
Charlie Louvin / I Feel Like Traveling On / Steps To Heaven / Tompkins Square
Wade Mainer's Mountaineers / Lonely Tombs / 1938-01-27 Charlotte, NC Bluebird Session / Bluebird
Julian Lage Group / Freight Train / Gladwell / Emarcy
Heights of Grass / Bile'em Cabbage Down – Heights of Grass / Great American Fiddle Collection / CMH

Pokey LaFarge & The South City Three / Sunny Side Of The Street / Middle of Everywhere / Free Dirt
Billy Baker & JP Fraley / Corina Corina / Recorded by Barbara Kunkle in Wise County, Virginia 1974 / http://www.aca-dla.org
Chris Thile & Michael Daves / Bury Me Beneath The Willow / Sleep with One Eye Open / Nonesuch
Paul David Smith, Snake Chapman and Bert Hatfield / St. Anne's Reel / Pickin' in Bert's Kitchen in Hardy, KY / None

Laura Veirs / The Fox / Tumble Bee / Nonesuch