Best of the Down Home “Awesome Out of Print Records” series vol. 1

Hello everybody- well for the past couple months pretty much all I’ve been doing here is digitizing and posting up old out of print LPs from my collection, for what has been known as Down Home Radio’s “Awesome Out of Print Records” series. I’m gonna be doing that in fits and starts from here on out, but I think I’m gonna call this first round complete and start back producing regular episodes of Down Home Radio. I’ve got a lot of good interviews waiting to come out!

On this show I have put together a play list of a bunch of my favorite tracks drawn from all the records I’ve posted up. It was hard to choose which tracks to play, because there are so many great ones on these albums! This show serves as a sampler, and you can go back and download all the records and listen to them in their entirety!

Track list for today’s episode:

1. Man of Constant Sorrow- Retta Spradlin, Cumberland Plateau
2. Did You Ever See the Devil Uncle Joe? – Harry D’Addario, Oh Mother It Hurts Me So: Traditional Music from Central Pennsylvania
3. Glory of Love – Big Bill Broonzy, An Evening with Big Bill Broonzy
4. Sixteen Tons – Big Bill Broonzy, An Evening with Big Bill Broonzy
5. Cumberlin’ Land – Bessford Hicks, Cumberland Plateau
6. The Corn Song – Louie Jones, Cumberland Plateau
7. Zollie’s Retreat – Clyde Davenport, Cumberland Plateau
8. Molly Put The Kettle On- Virgil Anderson, On The Tennessee Line
9. Western Plain – Leadbelly and Paul Mason Howard (Dolceola), Leadbelly on Capitol
10. The Eagle Rocks – Leadbelly and Paul Mason Howard (Dolceola), Leadbelly on Capitol
11. Wild Bill Jones- Retta Spradlin, Cumberland Plateau
12. The Pea Fowl- Retta Spradlin, Cumberland Plateau
13. The French Waltz – Clyde Troxell, Cumberland Plateau
14. Wild Bill Jones- Virgil Anderson, On The Tennessee Line
15. Italian Polka – Marty D’Addario, Oh Mother It Hurts Me So
16. Golden Slippers/Eight Hands Across – Harry D’Addario
17. Me And My Wife Had A Falling Out – Clyde Troxell, Cumberland Plateau
18. Goodnight Irene – Leadbelly and Paul Mason Howard (Dolceola), Leadbelly on Capitol
19. Ella Speed – Leadbelly and Paul Mason Howard (Dolceola), Leadbelly on Capitol
20. Leavin Here Blues (Going Back to Memphis) – Jug Free America, California 2005
21.Ever Since I Have Been a Man Full Grown – JB Smith, Ever Since I Have Been a Man Full Grown

5 Comments

  1. john

    You wouldn’t happen to have either the String Band Project or Banjo Project that were put out by Electra years ago?

  2. Eli

    I do have access to those records. Keep on me about it, write back in a couple weeks, and in the next round of record digitization I will put it out. Thanks for asking, those are great records!

  3. Pam Williams

    Thank you for this…I would love to have a copy of anything you have of Bessford Hicks…he was my grandfather…and I haven’t been able to put my hands on his Cumberlin Land….

  4. Hey, thanks for writing in. Bessford Hicks is one of my favorite singers, he’s great. The only music of his I have heard is on the “Gettin’ Up the Stairs – Traditional Music of the Cumberland Plateau” album which I posted here:
    http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2008/05/traditional-music-from-the-cumberland-plateau-vol-1-2/

    You could also try to get in touch with Bobby Fulcher, the folklorist who recorded Bessford Hicks.
    E-mail: Bobby.Fulcher@state.tn.us

    All the best – Eli

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