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Off kilter, questionable tuning, variable rhythm. The best music in the world.

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JBOK

Artist / Song Title / Album / Label

Al Hopkins & The Buckle Busters / Golden Slippers / Roots of American Fiddle Music – Volume 3 / http://1001tunes.com
Henry Thomas / Fishing Blues / Anthology Of American Folk Music, Volume 3B: Songs / Smithsonian Folkways
Andrew & Jim Baxter / Operator Blues / Roots of American Fiddle Music – Volume 2 / http://1001tunes.com

Lester & Linda McUmbers / Shake My Mother’s Hand / Old Timey – Tunes of Central West Virginia / WiseKrack
Luther Strong / Hickory Jack / Library of Congress Kentucky recordings 1937 / Library of Congress
Jont Blevins / Variations To Shortenin’ Bread / Jont Blevins – Grayson County, Virginia Banjo Player / Field Recorders Collective
Oscar Ford / Georgia Is My Home / Georgia Songsters (1926-1930) / Document
Ex-Governor Alf. Taylor’s Old Limber Quartet / Brother Noah Built an Ark / …I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces / Dust To Digital

Gid Tanner & The Skillet Lickers / I Ain’t No Better Now / Kickapoo Medicine Show / Rounder
Howlin’ Wolf / Moanin’ At Midnight / Smokestack Lightning /The Complete Chess Masters, 1951 – 1960 / Chess
Muddy Waters / Ramblin’ Kid Blues (Son Simms Four) / Muddy Waters 1941 – 1946 / Document
Hoyt Ming / Ain’t Gonna Rain No More / Classic Old-Time Fiddle / Smithsonian Folkways
Bill Monroe / Mule Skinner Blues (1940-03-30) / 1939-46 Prince Albert Acetates / None
Tommy Jarrell with Paul Brown & Mike Seeger / The Bravest Cowboy / Tommy Jarrell, Volume 1 / Field Recorders Collective

Hoosier Hot Shots / The Girl Friend Of The Whirling Dervish / Rural Rhythm 1935-1942 / Sony
Sweet Papa Stovepipe / All Birds Look Like Chicken To Me / Cluck Old Hen | A Barnyard Serenade, 1926 – 1940 / Old Hat
Pokey LaFarge / Fake in Heart / Marmalade / Self
Polk Miller / When De Corn Pone’s Hot / Polk Miller & His Old South Quartette / Tomkins Square
Farr Brothers / Alabamy Stomp / Fine Time At Our House – Standard Radio Transcriptions 1934-35 / Lightnin’ Slim collection
South Memphis Jug Band / Doctor Medicine / Folks, He Sure Do Pull Some Bow! / Yazoo

Al Duvall / Coroner & Knives / Cornorer & Knives / Boontling
Kimble Family / High Paper Collar / Kimble Family / Field Recorders Collective
Roba Stanley / Single Life / Banjo Pickin’ Girl / Rounder
The Iveys / Saints Delight / New Year’s Eve at the Ivey’s, 1972 / Self
John Morgan Salyer / Duck River / Home Recordings 1941-42 / Berea College
Dock Boggs / False Hearted Lover Blues / Aimer Et Perdre: To Love & To Lose Songs, 1917 – 1934 [Disc 1] / Tomkins Square
Lowe Stokes / Wave That Frame / Lowe Stokes Vol. 1 (1927-1930) / Document

Steve Martin / Atheists Don’t Have No Songs / Rare Bird Alert / Rounder
Dave Apollon / Mandolin Blues / The Man With The Mandolin: Disc 1 (1930-1939) / Acoustic Disc
Blind Blake / Dry Bone Shuffle (Pm unissued, 4462-1) / The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 1, 1917 – 1927 / Third Man Records
Uncle Dave Macon & Sam McGee / Come On Buddy Don’t You Want to Go / Laugh Your Blues Away / Rounder
Lawrence Eller & Vaughn Eller / Fly Around My Blue-Eyed Gal / Art of Field Recording: Volume I, Disc 1: Survey / Dust To Digital
Riley Puckett / Get Out And Get Under The Moon (October 11, 1940) 1 / Red Sails in the Sunset / http://saggyrecordcabinet.blogspot.com/
Art Fowler & His Ukulele / No Wonder’s She’s a Blushing Bride / The Naughty 1920’s Red Hot & Risque Songs of The Jazz Age / Grammercy

Asa Martin / Wolfe County Blues / Commercial Recordings / Berea Archives
Ralph Mitchel / Lundi-Mardi / Caribbean Voyage: Grenada / Rounder
Harry Reser / Lollypops / Banjo Crackerjax 1922-1930 / Document
Jimmy Strothers / Corn-Shucking Time / Field Recordings, Volume 1: Virginia, 1936 – 1941 / Document
Bukka White / Shake ‘Em On Down / The Vintage Recordings 1930 – 1940 “Aberdeeen Mississippi Bl / Document
Washington Phillips / Wouldn’t Mind Dying If Dying Was All / The Key To The Kingdom / Yazoo
Mississippi Mud Steppers / Vicksburg Stomp / Charlie McCoy (1928-1932) / Document