The Edge Of AmericanaGoing Shopping!

We're feeling the impending return of Buy Everything (or Nothing) Day.

Songs of buying, selling, toys, cars, clothes, money, and, of course, being broke.

Enjoy!

JBOK

Artist / Song Title / Album / Label

Bill Monroe & his Blue Grass Boys / Toy Heart / 1946-50 Bluegrass Bonanza: Classic Bluegrass / Proper
Hoosier Hot Shots / The Coat And Pants Do All The Work / Rural Rhythm 1935-1942 / Columbia
EC Ball / Santa Claus is Coming to Town / Tape 33 / None
EC Ball / Advertisement – Belk / Tape 9 / None
FIDDLIN’ BOB LARKAN / Women Wear No Clothes At All / Roots of American Fiddle Music – Volume 3 / http://1001tunes.com
The Skillet Lickers / Jeremiah Hopkins’ Store At Sand Mountain – Part 1 / Complete Recorded Works – Volume 5: 1930 – 1934 / JSP
Sam McGee / Chevrolet Car / Good For What Ails You (2) Music of the Medicine Shows, 1926 – 1937 / Old Hat

New Lost City Ramblers / Sales Tax on the Women / 1958-62 The Early Years / Folkways
The Louvin Brothers / Cash On The Barrelhead / Close Harmony / Bear Family
Weems String Band / Greenback Dollar / 1926-37 Joe Bussard – Down in the Basement / Old Hat
Almeda Riddle / Mama Buy Me A Chiney Doll / Sounds of the South, Volume 4: American Folk Songs for Children / Rounder
Tommy Jarrell & Paul Brown / Say Darlin Say / Tommy Jarrell Vol. 1 / County

Fred Cockerham / Shirt Tail Boogie / Recordings From The Collection Of Ray Alden / Field Recorders Collective
Brownie McGhee / Pawn Shop Blues / Classic Appalachian Blues / Smithsonian Folkway
Blind Lemon Jefferson / Broke And Hungry / The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 1 (1917-1927) / Third Man & Reverent
Memphis Jug Band / Stealin’ Stealin’ / Memphis Jug Band Box Set Disc B, 1928 – 1929 / JSP
Uncle Eck Dunford / What Will I Do, for My Money Is All Gone / Rural String Bands of Virginia / County

R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders / Shopping Mall / Singing In The Bathtub / Blue Goose
A.L. Camp / Little Toy Train / A.L. Camp Plays the Banjo / Smithsonian Folkways
Mike Seeger / Got No Silver Nor Gold Blues / Southern Banjo Sounds / Smithsonian Folkway
The Travelin’ Snakes / William Morgan And His Gal / Snake In The Grass / Self
Louis Armstrong / I Can’t Give You Anything But Love [Common Take] / The Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings / Sony
Paramount Symphony Orchestra / Made In America / The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 1 (1917-1927) / Third Man & Reverent

Jim & Jesse / An Old Account Settled / Old Dominion Masters / Rebel
Larry Sparks & The Lonesome Ramblers / Single Girl / It’s Never Too Late / June Appal
Doyle Lawson / Sadie’s Got Her New Dress On / More Behind The Picture Than The Wall / Rounder
Melvin Wine / Little Girl With the Ragged Dress On / Field Recordings / None
New Ballard’s Branch Bogtrotters / Greenback Dollar / The Galax Way / Hay Holler
Al Miller / That Stuff You Sell / Al Miller 1927-1936 / Document

Noah Lewis / Selling The Jelly / Ruckus Juice & Chittlins, Volume 2 / Yazoo
Oscar Wood / Don’t Sell It – Don’t Give It Away / Slidin’ On The Frets: The Hawaiian Steel Guitar Phenomenon / Yazoo
Snooks Eaglin / High Society / New Orleans Street Singer [Reissue] / Folkways
Hazel Dickens / The Sweetest Gift a Mother’s Smile / Hazel & Alice / Rounder
Joe Val / Don’t Sell Daddy Any More Whiskey / Diamond Joe / Rounder Select
Wilf Carter(Montana Slim) / I’m Gonna Tear Down The Mailbox – 1948 / Wilf Carter: A (Canadian) Prairie Legend, Volume 2 / Bear Family

Earl Johnson / Buy A Half Pint And Stay In The Wagon Yard / Earl Johnson Vol. 2 1927 – 1931 / Document
Del McCoury / If You’ve Got The Money Honey / Deeper Shade of Blue / McCoury Music
The Allen Brothers / I’ve Got The Chain Store Blues / Allen Brothers Vol. 1 (1927-1930) / Document
Merle Travis / Too Much Sugar for a Dime (& Georgia Brown, Judy Hayden) ’50 / Guitar Rags and a Too Fast Past / Bear Family

New Lost City Ramblers / Turkey in the Straw / 1958-98 40 Years of Concert Performances / Folkways