The Edge Of AmericanaSummer Songs on Edge of Americana

This past Friday, May 22nd, at precisely 5:00 pm, marked the moment summer began in Richmond.   So here's a show celebrating that reality.  And thanks to Red Light Rodeo for coming on tonight.  Check out their Kickstarter page to get their killer 7" single.   Otto of Joto.

Pokey LaFarge / City Summer Blues / Pokey LaFarge / Rounder

Ted Lundy & The Southern Mountain Boys / Blackberry Blossom / Ted Lundy And The Southern Mountain Boys / Old Blue Records
Alan Lomax / Street Cries Of Charleston – Blackberries & Flowers / Field Recordings, Volume 2: NC, SC, GA, TN & AR (1926 – 1943) / Rounder
Woody Guthrie / Riding In My Car (Car Song) / Songs to Grow On / Smithsonian Folkways
Blind Lemon Jefferson / Hot Dogs / The Cornshucker's Frolic, Volume 2 / County
Merle Travis / On a Bicycle Built for Two (Daisy Belle) '56 / Guitar Rags and a Too Fast Past / Bear Family

Merle Travis / On a Bicycle Built for Two (Daisy Belle) '56 / Guitar Rags and a Too Fast Past / Bear Family
Unle Dave Macon / In The Good Old Summertime / Keep Me Skillet Good and Greasy / Bear Family
John Hartford / Long Hot Summer Days / Mark Twang / Flying Fish
Natalie Merchant / Bleezer's Ice-Cream / Leave Your Sleep / Nonesuch
Hobart Smith / Katy Went Fishing With Her Hook And Line / Southern Journey, Volume 1: Voices from the American South / Rounder
Henry Thomas / Fishing Blues / Anthology of American Folk Music, Volume 3B: Songs / Cmithsonian Folkways
Tommy Jarrell with Paul Brown & Mike Seeger / Arkansas Traveler / Tommy Jarrell, Volume 1 / County

Foghorn Stringband / Kicking up the Devil on a Holiday / Weiser Sunrise / Nettwerk
Alton Stitcher / Listen To The Mockingbird / I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling / Dust to Digital
Jimmy Lee Williams / Have You Ever Seen Peaches / The George Mitchell Collection, Volume 39 – 45 [Disc 6] / Fat Possum

Moses "Clear Rock" Platt / Long Summer Day / Deep River of Song / Rounder
Watson's Pullman Porters / Barbecue Blues / The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 1: 1917 – 1927 / Third Man/Reverant

Polk Miller / Watermelon Party / Polk Miller & His Old South Quartette / Thompkins Square
Wayne Henderson / Take Me Out To The Ballgame / Les Pik / Flying Fish

Red Light Rodeo Live in Studio C and on the Turntable!

Gennett Sound Effects / Mocking Bird / …I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces / Dust to Digital
Dori Freeman / Whipperwill is Whispering Goodnight / Porchlight / Self Released
The Delmore Brothers / I Ain't Got Nowhere To Travel / Chicago, 1933; New Orleans, 1935 / JSP
The Blue Sky Boys / When I Take My Vacation in Heaven / The Blue Sky Boys / JSP
Dixon Brothers / Beautiful Stars / A Blessing To The People / Bear Family
Various Artists / Barbecue Bust / When The Levee Breaks: Mississippi Blues Rare Cuts, 1926 – 1941 [Disc 4] / JSP

Louis Armstrong / Struttin' With Some Barbecue / Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings/2 / Sony
George Formby / Swimmin' With The Wimmin' / With My Little Ukulele in My Hand 3 / 4D
Bill Chitwood & His Georgia Mountaineers / Fourth of July at the Country Fair (1927) / Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time and End Time Music, 1923 – 1936 / Thompkin Square
Brownie McGhee / Barbecue Any Old Time / The Complete Brownie McGhee / JSP
Charley Patton / Some Summer Day / The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 2 (1928 – 1932) / Third Man/Reverant
Howard Armstrong / Summertime (solo violin) / Louie Bluie / Yazoo

Arnie Naiman & Chris Coole / Walking The Dog / 5 Strings Attached With No Backing / Self Released
Bob Paisley & The Southern Grass / Walking The Dog / Color of the Blues / Self Released
Bill Monroe / My Carolina Sunshine Girl / Bluegrass, 1950 – 1958 / Bear Family