Old Traditional Folk/Country Music

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Bill Stepp’s mother was a Nottaway Indian and he spent the early years of his life in a Kentucky cave. This 1937 field recording inspired Aaron Copland who spread it to the world.

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Anything from Doc Watson.

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Doc Watson rocks. Clarence Ashley here was one of his mentors

Take the Clarence White pill my nigs
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Clifton Chenier, the King of Zydeco

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The original Carter Family is the Holy Trinity of folk music

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“Single Girl, Married Girl” from the Carter Family at the 1927 Bristol Sessions. Maybelle Carter was 18 years old and eight months pregnant.

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more Texas blues

RAAAAAAAAAAW HIIIIIIIIIIIIDE

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This entire channel is fantastic.

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This is probably one of the best country/old time 78s that I own. A true cowboy loner song filled with authentic despondency. Released in 1930, this song embodies the Great Depression and its social effects with harrowing accuracy.

An excellent compilation of similarly themed cowboy tunes can be found here:

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Another great 78 that I own is this one:

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Frank Hutchison's unique, bluesy slide-guitar playing was a deep inspiration for John Fahey. Hutch was a coal-miner in West Virginia during the late 20s. Fun fact: West Virginia, in spite of being one of the poorest American states today, was one of the most prosperous in the 20s and didn't get hit as hard by the depression as the other states in the American south. That's why most West Virginia Old-Time (Kelly Harrell, Blind Alfred Reed, etc) isn't even in the same league price-wise as Ozark or Mississippi old time.

This is the first song I learned on guitar. I later found out Ken Maynard was a mean alcohol asshole but he’s a great cowboy singer.
Anything on the Folkways Anthology of American Folk Music is great. I knew Harry Smith in the last couple of years of his life and wished I’d asked him a lot more questions about music.

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I like his version of Stackolee

That's honestly one of my least favorite Hutch tunes, I like him more when he's slower and a touch more pensive. Coney Isle, Back In My Home Town, K.C. Blues, The Chevrolet Six, Cumberland Gap and the Okeh Electrical take of The Train That Carried The Girl From Town are my favorites
That's an excellent first track to learn on guitar! Harry Smith was a hell of a collector, those that know 78s know there are multiple thousand-dollar cuts on Anthology, the least of which a clean copy of Bollweevil Blues by Patton. Hell, Anthology practically set the market for the field. I've always thought it to be the single most innovative music release of all time.

My friend found the Anthology in the Boulder Public Library and recorded it on cassette for Harry, who broke into tears as he hadn’t listened to it in decades. He lost all interest in record collecting after he sold his collection but still kept on with other collecting obsessions like paper airplanes, Russian Easter eggs, Seminole quilts, etc. and he still recorded new music.
I agree that it was one of the most influential collections of all time. Right before he died he received a lifetime achievement Grammy award.
I’ll keep posting stuff from the anthology so this doesn’t die for another Kpop thread.

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“This Song Of Love” shape note singing

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Alabama Sacred Harp Singers