Various Artists - Red House 25 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

In the late summer of 1925, pioneering producer Ralph Peer directed a series of recording sessions atop the George Vanderbilt Hotel in Asheville, North Carolina that would become the stuff of legend. They were the first commercial recordings ever made in Appalachia and included several influential Inchold-timeInch musicians (Wade Ward, Ernest V. Stoneman, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Kelly Harrell, and Henry Whitter) alongside regional prize-winning fiddlers, banjo players, harmonica soloists, and even visiting vaudeville and pop performers like Emmett Miller and the Carolina Club Orchestra. The immensely entertaining and historically important records they produced include mountain ballads, folk tunes, ragtime instrumentals, novelties, and more; and yet, these recordings have been overlooked for a century because of their extreme rarity and technological limitations. Peer would go on to direct the famed 1927 Bristol Sessions, widely considered the InchBig Bang of Country MusicInch - but these 1925 Asheville recordings lit the fuse. The long-play 84-minute CD includes 28 complete selections, meticulously restored from the original discs with no artificial enhancements, and a 128-page hardback book by renowned scholars Ted Olson and Tony Russell, telling in detail the fascinating story of the 1925 Asheville Sessions with dozens of rare photographs, a complete discography, song lyrics, color reproductions of all original labels, and biographies of all session participants. Also available as a vinyl 2-LP set. Album Tracks 1. [2 41] I'm Going Back to North Carolina 2. [2 46] I Never Had the Blues (Until I Left Old Dixie Land) 3. [2 38] Devil in the Wood Pile 4. [2 33] Sherman Valley 5. [2 56] St. Louis Tickle 6. [3 47] John Hardy 7. [3 08] When the Redeemed Are Gathering in 8. [2 55] Royal Clog 9. [2 45] the Cackling Hen 10. [2 43] a Married Man's Blues

Album Tracks 1. The Coo Coo Bird - Clarence Ashley 2. Nine Pound Hammer - Monroe Brothers 3. John Henry - Two Poor Boys 4. East Virginia - Buell Kazee 5. Two White Horses - Two Poor Boys 6. The Mountaineer's Courtship - Ernest V. Stoneman & Wife 7. I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground - Bascom Lamar Lunsford 8. The Twentieth Century Minstrel - Greensleeves 9. My Long Journey Home - Monroe Brothers 10. Salty Dog - Morris Brothers 11. Train Carry My Girl Back Home - Mainer & Morris 12. Brown's Ferry Blues - Sam & Kirk McGee 13. Rambling Boy - Carter Family 14. Keep on the Sunny Side - Carter Family 15. Railroad Bill - Will Bennett 16. Alabama Bound - Papa Harvey Hull 17. In the Pines - Darby & Tarlton 18. Birmingham Jail (On a Monday) - Darby & Tarlton 1. Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms - Monroe Brothers 2. Poor Boy - Gus Cannon 3. Pretty Polly - Dock Boggs 4. Midnight Special - Leadbelly 5. 900 Miles - Woody Gutherie 6. Stackalee - Frank Hutchison 7. Henry Lee - Dick Justice 8. The Wagoner's Lad - Buell Kazee 9. Willie Moore - Burnett & Rutherford 10. Greenback Dollar - Noach & Spark 11. Little Red Shoes (Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot?) - Monroe Brothers 12. Frankie and Johnnie - Jimmie Rodgers 13. Gambling Barroom Blues (ST James Infirmary) - Jimmie Rodgers 14. White House Blues - Charlie Poole 15. Down South Blues - Dock Boggs 16. Careless Love - Delmore Brothers 17. Raining on the Mountain - Delmore Brothers 18. Hesitation Blues (Curley Headed Woman) - Burnett & Rutherford

Maybe it's something in the air, maybe it's something in the water, and MAYBE it's something in the whiskey, but Kentucky is to fiddle music, banjo playing and classic old ballads what the Mississippi Delta is to blues, and this 7-CD box contains almost 200 all-time great performances by some of the finest country performers of the '20s and '30s-the most comprehensive collection of early roots music ever assembled! a thick 5Inch x 11Inch booklet breaks it all down with amazing period photos and copious notes. Includes some of the earliest known recorded performances of songs that have become a big piece of our American musical heritage The Roving Boy Justis Begley; Buffalo Gals Crockett Family Mountaineers; Fire on the Mountain Ted Gossett's Band; I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground Green Bailey; There's More Pretty Girls than One Rutherford & Foster; Pretty Polly Pete Steele; You'll Miss Me when I'm Gone Oaks Family, and more. Album Tracks 1. Ladies on the Steamboat Burnett & Rutherford 2. The Dying Soldier Buell Kazee 3. Little Rabbit/Rabbit Where's Your Mammy Crockett Family Mountaineers 4. I Truly Understand You Love Another Man Shortbuckle Roarke & Family 5. Eighth of January Ted Gossetts Band 6. All Night Long Blues Burnett & Rutherford 7. Shipping Port Jimmy Johnsons String Ban 8. The Rowan County Crew Robert L. Day 9. Deer Walk Doc Roberts 10. Let Her Go, I'll Meet Her Rutherford & Foster 11. That's My Rabbit, My Dog Caught It Walter Family 12. Lillie Dale Martin & Roberts 13. Cumberland Gap - Rutherford, Moore & Burnett 14. The Old Fish Song James Howard 15. The Red Hill Special Fort Thomas Group 16. If I Die a Railroad Man Green Bailey 17. Grand Hornpipe J.W. Day 18. East Virginia Walter Williams 19. Forked Deer Taylors Kentucky Boys 20. Pretty Polly Pete Steele 21. Run Banjo Justis Begley