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Country, Bluegrass, Hillbillie, Folk

Going to go off into the blues world here won't happen again.

This is the original "Cocaine Blues" by Luke Jordan, he belonged to that Piedmont school of blues. From 1927.

The Piedmont was east Georgia, South and North Carolina, the Virginias and Kentucky.


 
Spam On Rye said:
Yeah McDowell and a lot of the the older bluesmen kinda lived in obscurity until Alan Lomax and the folk revival found them.

I've heard of Stapleton but I'll be honest I have a bias and don't really pay attention to much country produced past the 1960s for some reason. You like all the good shit so I'm definitely gonna give him a try now and try and stop being a curmudgeon :)
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There was a little gang of guys who could have recorded in the late 20's and 30's but for some reason or another didn't. McDowell the most accomplished but we also had Mance Lipscomb and Robert Pete Williams who like Lead Belly was discovered in prison.

I own most of those Lomax recordings, some amazing stuff there as you know.
 
The original rock and rollers. Not everything they did was like this, but they were doping it in the mid and late 40's before anyone else.

 
Sir Elzio Dennick said:
There was a little gang of guys who could have recorded in the late 20's and 30's but for some reason or another didn't. McDowell the most accomplished but we also had Mance Lipscomb and Robert Pete Williams who like Lead Belly was discovered in prison.

I own most of those Lomax recordings, some amazing stuff there as you know.
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Yeah those and all the Folkways series are where I discovered most of the old stuff. Back when it was still a thing to go dig through vinyl bins.
 
One of the best exampes of that High Lonesone sound coming out of those Appalachian mountans the great Roscoe Holcomb



 
A little story...

Like everyone else I thought.....The House of The Rising Sun......was a The Animals song.

Many years later I'm at Border , I come across a Lead Belly CD, by now I was just starting to get into old timey music. So I buy the CD get it home put it on the player and after a few tracks.......there is it a house in New Orleans ...........WHAT? i knew the guy had died in 1949 so how in the hell?

So I Google the song and find out the tune was first recorded in 1933 by Clarence Ashley who I knew nothing about, and nobody seems to know who wrote it.

Here it is that 1933 original. Ashley also gave us ....Little Sadie.....Both songs have been covered by many. My fav covers by Bob Dylan.



Gotta love the 30's. Hell, King Kong, Jesse Owens, Wizard of Oz, Robert Johnson, Sonny Boy Williamson,
 
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Jerry Garcia got his start playing Bluegrass. He played banjo in a jug band. He traveled around to Bluegrass festivals and tapped the performances. He recorded a handful of albums with David Grisman who is a member of the international bluegrass hall of fame. This is their take on an old folk standard dating back to the 17th century, originally titled "Two Sisters"

 
Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy was written by Uncle Dave Macon and was first recorded and released 1924. There's been lots of covers over the years, Doc Watson, Pete Seeger, Stringbean. I've always liked this version by Those Darlin's (RIP Jessi Zazu). Got to see them way back in 2010.





 
yea that old shit notwithstanding i grew up on in Missouri,

this more represents my orpinin of how things went.



shout out to Lefty

and my old buddy, Vern.
 
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