The Edge Of AmericanaWe’re Doing Songs About the Cross Bar Hotel on The Edge of Americana

Watch me tie up the connections between the late Washington and Lee law professor, Roger Groot (middle photo), and  Huddie Ledbetter (on the bottom)  tonight on The Edge of Americana.  Playing songs about the cross-bar-hotel, songs of incarceration.  Also I will have Richmond musicologist Greg Kimball on the Show to discuss the Alan Lomax recorded Jimmy Strothers (top photo with guitar in the lap) who was incarcerated in the 1930's in Richmond's own State Work Farm.   Look closely at the Jimmy Strothers picture, is that me in the window?  Enjoy.  Otto

Ed Lewis & Prisoners / Stewball / Southern Journey, (Volume 3): 61 Highway Mississippi / / The Blue Sky Boys / I'm Just Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail / The Blue Sky Boys In Concert 1964 / / The Del McCoury Band / The Prisoner's Song / Celebrating 50 Years Of Del McCoury / / Hazel Dickens / Beaufort County Jail / Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / / Fiddlin' John Carson / Stockade Blues / (Volume 7)-(1930-34) / / Lead Belly / Midnight Special / Classic Railroad Songs / / Albert Hash / Hangman's Reel / Albert Hash – Frc411 / / Whistler & His Jug Band (Buford Threlkeld) / Jail House Blues / A Richer Tradition / / Blind Blake / He's in the Jailhouse Now / Blue Images Presents 1920's Blues Classics / / Jimmie Rodgers / In the Jailhouse Now / The Singing Brakeman / / The Delmore Brothers / Lonesome Jailhouse Blues / Chicago 1933, New Orleans 1935 / / Washington Phillips / Paul and Silas in Jail / The Key To The Kingdom / / David Miller / Jailhouse Rag / Old-Time Mountain Guitar: Vintage Recordings 1926-1931 / / Guitar Welch / Electric Chair Blues / Angola Prisoners' Blues / / Hamper McBee / Jasper Jail / The Good Old-Fashioned Way / / Bob Paisley & The Southern Grass / Sad Prisoner's Blues / Color Of The Blues / / Bill Monroe / Prisoner's Song / Bluegrass 1950-1958 / / Jimmie Strothers / Cripple Creek / Deep River of Song: Black Appalachia / / Jimmie Strothers / Tennesse Dog / Field Recordings / / Jimmie Strothers / We're Almost Down to the Shore / Virginia & The Piedmont, Deep River of Song: The Alan Lomax Collection / / Jimmie Strothers / I Used To Work on a 'Tractor' / Virginia & The Piedmont, Deep River of Song: The Alan Lomax Collection / / Jimmie Strothers / Corn-Shucking Time / Virginia & The Piedmont, Deep River of Song: The Alan Lomax Collection / / Jimmie Strothers / Poontang Little, Poontang Small / Deep River of Song: Black Appalachia / / Jimmie Strothers / Going To Richmond / Virginia & The Piedmont, Deep River of Song: The Alan Lomax Collection / / Jimmie Strothers / Take This Hammer / Virginia & The Piedmont, Deep River of Song: The Alan Lomax Collection / / Alan Lomax / Robert Higgins – Prison Blues / Field Recordings – (Volume 2) – NC, SC, Georgia, Tenn, Arkansas (1926-43) / / Brownie McGhee / Prison Woman Blues / The Complete Brownie McGhee / / Five Girl Prisoners / Where Have You Been John Billy / Field Recordings : (Volume 8)-La Ms Al 1934-47 / / Group of Women Prisoners / If There's Anybody Here Wants to Buy Some Cabbage / Field Recordings: Volume 8, LA, MS, AL,1934 – 1947 / / Pharis & Jason Romero / I'm Just Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail / A Passing Glimpse / / Jimmie Dale Gilmore & The Wronglers / Columbus Stockade Blues / Heirloom Music / / Memphis Sheiks / He's in the Jailhouse Now / Good For What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows, 1926 – 1937 / / Flatt & Scruggs / Folsom Prison Blues / Earl Scruggs: His Family and Friends/Nashville Airplane / /