re: Old Timey -- a thread for pre-rock country, folk, and blues

Jimmy Logsdon - "Hank Williams Sings The Blues No More" (1953)

Williams had been a mentor for Logsdon, who released this tribute within days of his friend's death.

A few years later, under the name Jimmy Lloyd, Logsdon would release the rockabilly classic "I Got A Rocket In My Pocket"

Great thread Kafka!!!

I contributed earlier in the thread. You were very kind with your response. I will try to add more later.

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The Life & Death of a Bluesman (1987)

BBC radio documentary on the life of Leroy Carr (1904-1935), including many of his songs. The veddy British narrator can be a bit jarring, but he seems to know his stuff.

Monroe Brothers- Long Journey Home

Monroe Brothers-My Dear Old Southern Home

Monroe Brothers- Drifting Too Far From the Shore

1947

Bill Monroe- Wicked Path of Sin

1940

Bill Monroe- Tennessee Blues

1947

Bill Monroe- Molly and Tenbrooks

1945

Bill Monroe- Travelin This Lonesome Road

Cripple CreekHobart Smith

Frank Proffitt- Cumberland Gap

Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down

The Southern Tones -"It Must Be Jesus" (1954)

Ray Charles - "I Got A Woman" (1955)

Ad in Billboard magazine, April 24, 1954:

Delta & Louisiana Blues

00:00 - I Be's Troubled -- Muddy Waters
03:05 - Cross Road Blues -- Robert Johnson
05:38 - I'm a Guitar King - Tommy McClennan
08:28 - Sitting On Top of the World -- The Mississippi Sheiks
11:33 - Fare Thee Well -- Joe Callicott
14:44 - Devil Got My Woman -- Skip James
17:44 - Little Girl In Rome -- Otto Virgial
20:23 - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - Sonny Boy Williamson
23:25 - Baby Please Don't Go - Big Joe Williams
26:49 - Avalon Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
29:53 - Cottonfield Blues - Garfield Akers
32 :48 - Labor Blues - Tom Dickinson
35:49 - Falling Down Blues - Robert Wilkins
38:28 - Don't You Want to Know - The Delta Boys
41:38 - New Stock Yard Blues - Tim Wilkins
44:36 - Easin' Back to Tennessee - Sleepy John Estes
47:18 - Shake' Em On Down - Bukka White
50:21 - Got the blues - Mississippi John Hurt
53:13 - Come on in my kitchen - Robert Johnson
56:04 - Pretty baby blues - Bukka White
58:39 - Packing trunk blues - Lead Belly
01:01:34 - So lonesome - Ramblin Thomas
01:04:19 - Whiskey and women - Black Ace
01:07:35 - Bye bye bird - Sonny Boy Williamson
01:10:34 - Going through the bushes - Robert Pete Williams
01:14:06 - Magnolia blues - Charley Patton
01:17:13 - Future blues - Willie Brown
01:20:12 - Detroit blues - Tampa Red
01:23:36 - New York city - Lead Belly
01:26:42 - Joe Kirby - Charley Patton
01:29:52 - Stop breaking down - Sonny Boy Williamson
01:32:49 - Parchman farm blues - Bukka White
01:35:33 - Walking blues - Son House
01:38:33 - Jail House blues - Sam Collins
01:41:05 - Whose Muddy shoes - Elmore James

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In retrospect, it's easy to see why the Okeh records failed. For one thing, despite the fact that a number of his songs have the word "blues" in the title (a concession to commercial trends of the time as much as anything, perhaps), they're not blues. Hurt belongs to an older, pre-blues tradition. Although people often think of the blues as an ancient music, overwhelming evidence points to its having come into being in the early years of this century. The fact that John Hurt worked with fiddle players shows that he was more conversant with older styles. Furthermore, the large number of story-songs in his repertoire puts him in what is known as the "songster" tradition, since blues, for the most part, have no narrative content. And finally, you won't hear a bent note in any of John Hurt's music (although he does play slide guitar on one track on this collection, "Talking Casey," a song he probably learned much later). His style owes more to the pre-blues ragtime technique than it does to any of the more modern music being made just a few miles away from where he grew up. Also, he was older than the majority of the blues musicians being recorded at the time, so it makes sense that his music would hearken to an earlier time.

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Mississippi John Hurt - Frankie

Mississippi John Hurt - C. C. Rider

Mississippi John Hurt - Lonesome Valley