The Edge Of AmericanaTalking About and Highlighting the 1929 Richmond Sessions and 1936 Goochland Prison Recordings

Jimmie Strothers

Thanks to Ron Curry & Gregg Kimball for coming in and talking with us about teh 1929 Richmond VA and 1936 VA State Penitentiary Recordings.

Go see their lecture-performance this Friday at the Richmond Library Main Branch at 7pm!

Enjoy

JBOK

Artist / Name / Album / Label

Fred Price / Richmond Blues / Classic Old-Time Fiddle / Smithsonian Folkways
Polk Miller / That “Old Time” Religion / Polk Miller & His Old South Quartette / Tompkins
Uncle Eck Dunford & Hattie Stoneman / What Will I Do, For My Money Is All Gone / Rural String Bands Of Virginia / County
Adam Hurt & Beth Williams Hartness / Richmond / Fine Times at Our House / Self

Kelly Harrell & The Virginia String Band / My Name Is John Johanna / Rural String Bands Of Virginia / County
Roscoe Holcomb / East Virginia Blues / Mountain Music Of Kentucky / Smithsonian Folkways
Fields Ward & his Buck Mountain Band / Way Down in North Carolina / Gennett 14861 / Gennett
Virginia Mountain Boys / Prisoner’s Blues / Old Time Music from Grayson & Carroll Counties / Smithsonian Folkways
Salem Highballers / Going On To Town / Rural String Bands Of Virginia / County
Vester Jones / Cluck Old Hen / Classic Old Time Music from Grayson & Carroll Counties / Smithsonian Folkways
Spangler & Pearson / Midnight Serenade / Rural String Bands Of Virginia / County

Monarch Jazz / Jubilee Quartet of Norfolk / What’s The Matter Now? / Virginia Roots – The 1929 Richmond Sessions / Rounder
Norfolk Jubilee Quartette / Wonder Where Is The Gamblin’ Man (Pm 12715, 2901-1) / The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 1 (1917-1927) / Paramount
Otis & Tom Mote / Tight Like That / Virginia Roots – The 1929 Richmond Sessions / Rounder
Roanoke Jug Band / Triangle Blues / Rural String Bands Of Virginia / County

Roanoke Jug Band / Homebrew Rag / Virginia Roots – The 1929 Richmond Sessions / Rounder
Tubize Royal Hawaiian Orchestra / Sweetheart Of Mandalay / Virginia Roots – The 1929 Richmond Sessions / Rounder
The Bubbling Over Five / Get Up Off That Jazzophone / Virginia Roots – The 1929 Richmond Sessions / Rounder
Dykes Magic City Trio / Hook And Line / Old-Time Music From South-West Virginia / Rebel
Tweedy Brothers / 07 Sugar in the Gourd 1 / 1928-03 Richmond, IN Gennett / Gennett

Bela Lam & His Greene Country Singers / If Tonight Should End The World / Virginia Roots – The 1929 Richmond Sessions / Rounder
Jimmie Strothers / Thought I Heard My Banjo Say / Virginia and the Piedmont / Rounder
Jimmie Strothers / Tennessee Dog / Virginia and the Piedmont / Rounder
Blue Ridge Highballers / Soldier’s Joy / Rural String Bands Of Virginia / County

Joe Lee / I’ll Go On / Field Recordings Volume 1: Virginia / Document
James Wilson & Group / Walk Down, Devils / Field Recordings Volume 1: Virginia / Document
Leadbelly / Lining Track / Leadbelly Sings Folk Songs / Smithsonian Folkways
James Henry Diggs / Freight Train Blues / Field Recordings Volume 1: Virginia / Document

Al Miller / I Found Your Key-Hole / Al Miller 1927-1936 / Document
Ezra Lewis / Tin Can Alley / Virginia & The Piedmont-Deep River of Song – The Alan Lomax Collection / Rounder
Emmett W. Lundy / Talking about the fiddle and the devil / Fiddle Tunes from Grayson County, Virginia / Library of Congress
Emmett W. Lundy / Flatwoods / Fiddle Tunes from Grayson County, Virginia / Library of Congress
Glen Neaves & Wade Ward / Western Country / Bluegrass from the Blue Ridge / Smithsonian Folkways
Buell H. Kazee / Poor Boy Long Way From Home / Commercial Recordings 1927-1929 045a-01 / January 16, 1928 New York, NY
E.C. Ball / Virginia Rag / Rural Parlor Guitar – Recordings from 1967 – 1971 / County
Bull Mountain Moonshiners / Johnny Goodwin / Rural String Bands Of Virginia / County

Buck Mountain Band / Yodeling Blues / Virginia Roots – The 1929 Richmond Sessions / Rounder
Jimmie Strothers / Poontang Little, Poontang Small / Virginia and the Piedmont / Rounder