The Edge Of AmericanaCool Songs for Hot Days

It's hot, did you notice?  We know it's gauche to talk about the weather, so tonight it's all songs of summertime activities – swimming, bbq, fishing, boating, and more!

Enjoy!

JBOK

Artist / Song / Album / Label

John Hartford / Long Hot Summer Days / Mark Twang / Flying Fish
Eller Brothers / Cindy In The Summer Time / Art of Field Recording, Volume 2: Survey / Dust To Digital
Bela Fleck / Texas Barbeque / Crossing The Tracks / Rounder

Jimmie Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys / Home Run Man / Tennessee / Decca
Leake County Revelers / I’m Gwine Back To Dixie / Leake County Revelers Vol. 2 (1929-1930) / Document
Polk Miller / Watermelon Party / Polk Miller & His Old South Quartette / Tomkins Square
Asylum Street Spankers / Colonel Josh’s BBQ / Hot Lunch / Yellow Dog
The Monroe Brothers / Watermelon Hangin’ On The Vine / The Monroe Brothers Complete RCA Victor Bluebird Recordings, / Soundmark
Jimmie Rodgers / Peach Pickin’ Time Down In Georgia / Roll Along, Kentucky Moon (The Blue Yodeler) / Country Classics
Tommy Jarrell with Paul Brown & Mike Seeger / Arkansas Traveler / Tommy Jarrell, Volume 1 / County

Lowe Stokes / Sailing on the Robert E Lee / 1001 Fiddle Tunes Vol. 1 / http://1001tunes.com
George Formby / Swimmin’ With The Wimmin’ / With My Little Ukulele in My Hand 3 / Proper
Fred Van Eps / Chinese Picnic and Oriental Dance / 5 String Banjo 1909-17 / BACM
Fiddlin’ John Carson / Corn Licker & Barbecue – Part 1 / Volume 5: 1927 – 1929 / Document
Mississippi Jook Band / Barbecue Bust / When The Levee Breaks: Mississippi Blues Rare Cuts, 1926 – 1941, Disc 4 / JSP
Jethro Burns / Up A Lazy River / Bye Bye Blues / Acoustic Disc

Bascom Lamar Lunsford / Mole in the Ground / Smokey Mountain Ballads / Folkways
Tom Darby & Jimmie Tarlton / Maple On The Hill / On The Banks Of A Lonely River / County
Dori Freeman / Whipperwill is Whispering Goodnight / Porchlight / Self
The Two Man Gentlemen Band / Pool Party / Two At A Time / Serious Business
Natalie Merchant / Bleezer’s Ice-Cream / Leave Your Sleep / Nonesuch
John Ashby / 03 Broad Run Picnic / Old Virginia Fiddling / County

Kirk Sutphin & Riley Baugus / Evening Star Waltz / Long-Time Piedmont Pals / Self
Bill Monroe / Did You Ever Go Sailing / 1939-46 Prince Albert Acetates / None
Henry Thomas / Fishing Blues / Anthology of American Folk Music, Volume 3B: Songs / Smithsonian Folkways
Reno & Smiley / Where The Old Red River Flows / Live at Sunset Park, West Grove PA September 9, 1962 / Self
Woody Guthrie / Riding In My Car (Car Song) / Songs to Grow On / Smithsonian Folkways
Dock Boggs / Bright Sunny South / Dock Boggs / Smithsonian Folkways
Calvin Cole & The Rock Creek Ramblers / June Apple / Calvin Cole – Fancy Gap Banjo / Field Recorders Collective

Lowe Stokes / Sailin’ Down The Chesapeake Bay / Lowe Stokes Vol. 1 (1927-1930) / Document
The Staples Singers / Uncloudy Day / Uncloudy Day / Mississippi
Sam & Kirk McGee / Chittlin’ Cookin’ Time In Cheatham County / Opry Old Timers / Starday
The Blue Sky Boys / When I Take My Vacation in Heaven / The Blue Sky Boys / Rounder Select
Georgia Yellow Hammers / Peaches Down In Georgia / Roots of American Fiddle Music – Volume 3 / http://1001tunes.com
Bill Chitwood & His Georgia Mountaineers / Fourth of July At The Country Fair / Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time and End Time Music, 1923 – 1936 / Tomkins Square
Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers / Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight / 1001 Fiddle Tunes Vol. 1 / http://1001tunes.com

Adam Steffey / Garfield’s Blackberry Blossom / New Primitive / Organic
Frank Jenkins / Sunny Home In Dixie / Roots of American Fiddle Music – Volume 3 / http://1001tunes.com

Wayne Henderson / Take Me Out to the Ballgame / Les Pik / Flying Fish
Red Rector / Down Where The Watermelons Grow / Red Rector & Friends / Revonah