first half the show’s got some hawaiian slack key/steel guitar stylings, early jazz, and fun.
second half’s original takes from the 1927 Bristol Sessions in Bristol, Tennessee. a 19 artist recording session, considered the Big Bang of modern country music.
sounds, songs, music, ideas, people, places. hard times.
Gabby Pahinui – Hi’ilawe (1947) & Luau Hula (1972)
Gabby Pahinui – Kauai Beauty
Helen Louise & Frank Ferera – Hawaiian Hula Medley
Frank Ferera – Pinin’ Hawaii for You
Eddie Lang & Carl Kress – Pickin’ My Way
Eddie Lang – April Kisses
Louise Johnson – Long Way from Home
Ed Bell – Frisco Whistle Blues
Sylvester Weaver – Bottleneck Blues
Blind Lemon Jefferson – Booger Rooger Blues
Blind Lemon Jefferson – Hot Dogs
Josh White – There’s a Man Goin’ Around Taking Names
Clarence Ashley – Corrina, Corrina
The Kentucky Ramblers – Ginseng Blues
Clarence Ashley – Little Hillside
Alcoa Quartet – I’m Redeemed
Alfred G. Karnes – Do Not Wait Till I’m Laid Beneath the Clay
Dacosta Woltz’s Southern Broadcasters – Are You Washed in the Blood
Tennessee Mountaineers – At the River
B.F. Shelton – Pretty Polly
J.P. Neaster – Train on the Island
El Watson – Narrow Gauge Blues
Bull Mountain Moonshiners – Johnny Goodwin
The Carter Family – The Storms on the Ocean
Henry Whittier – Rain Crew Bill
Dad Blackard’s Moonshiners – Suzanna Gal
Eck Robertson & Family – Texas Wagoner
Mr. & Mrs. J. W. Baker – On the Banks of the Old Tennessee
Jimmie Rodgers – Sleep, Baby, Sleep
Tenneva Ramblers – The Longest Train I Ever Saw