This, That And the Other
Sagebrush
We'll head back in time and listen to a number of songs recorded by folks who made their way to CA's San Joaquin Valley to work on farms. Escaping from the Dust Bowl - mainly in the lower Great Plains, these songs were often first recorded in the Great Plains and accompained the destitute migrants as they headed west. These "field recordings" made by Charles Todd and Robert Sorkin were made in 1940/41. From there, we'll head down to the Southern U.S. and listen to some folk/fiddle/hillbilly/western/gospel/hillbilly songs recorded largely by Alan Lomax (not all songs were recorded by Mr. Lomax). These songs were recorded between 1934 and 1942. All of the recordings on this show are part of the massive Library of Congress audio recording collection.
Genre
Folk
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| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mary Helen Bolton | Dreamboat | 1940 | ||
| Lois Judd | Pearl Bryant | 1940 | ||
| A.W. Mullins | Utah Carl | 1941 | ||
| Herman Davis | Barroom Blues | 1941 | ||
| Unknown Artist | Old Joe Clark | 1941 | ||
| Unkown Artist | Two Convicts | 1941 | ||
| Norman Nelson | Talking Blues | 1941 | ||
| Pauline Ramsey | Northbound City | 1941 | ||
| Jim Holbert | Chimchack | 1940 | ||
| Mary Sullivan | Lloyd Bateman | 1940 | ||
| Unknown Artist | Miller Boy | 1941 | ||
| "O.C. "Cotton" Davis | Bold Jack Donohue | 1941 | ||
| Nathan and Lois Judd | One Day in Springtime | 1940 | ||
| Lois Judd and Rosetta Spainhard | The Three Wishes | 1940 | ||
| Homer Piercce | Darlin' Baby | 1940 | ||
| Rosetta Spainfield | The Government Camp | 1940 | ||
| Willard Brewer | The Shanghai | 1940 | ||
| Mr. Rutherford | Noah's Ark | 1941 | ||
| Lum Wilson "Bill" Jackson | California Joe | 1941 | ||
| Unknown Artist | Skip to my Lou | 1941 | ||
| Unknown Artist | Noise and Sound Effects | 1941 | ||
| Wayne "Gene" Dinwiddie | Home in the Government Camp | 1941 | ||
| Unknown Artist | Eighth of January | 1941 | ||
| L.A. Ledford | Sweet Ellum Blues | 1941 | ||
| Pauline Ramsey | Madame, I Come to Marry You | 1941 | ||
| Mrs. Kitt | A Woman's Tongue Will Run Forever | 1941 | ||
| Troy Cambron | Arthur Clyde | 1940 | ||
| W. H. Stepp | Bonaparte's Retreatt | 1937 | ||
| Kelly Pace | Rock Island Line | 1934 | ||
| E.C. Ball | Pretty Polly | 1941 | ||
| Christine and Katherine Schipp | Sea Lion Woman | 1939 | ||
| Nashville Washboard Band | Soldier's Joy | 1942 | ||
| Vera Hall | Another Man Done Gone | 1940 | ||
| Turner Junior Johnson | When I Lay My Burden Down | 1941 (?) | ||
| W.E. Claunch | Grub Springs | 1939 | ||
| Bozie Sturdivant | Ain't No Grave That Can Hold My Body Down | 1942 | ||
| Judge Learned Hand | Iron Merrimac | 1942 | ||
| Pet3e Steele | Coal Creek March | 1938 | ||
| David "Honeyboy" Edwards | Worried Life Blues | 1942 | ||
| Texas Gladden | One Morning in May | 1941 | ||
| Jimmie Strothers | Blood Stained Banders | 1936 | ||
| Jess Morris | Goodbye, Old Paint | 1942 | ||
| Dennis Wash and Charlie Sims | Lead me to the Rock | 1936 | ||
| Thaddeus C Willingham Jr. | Roll On the Ground | 1939 | ||
| Sonny Terry | Old Lost John | 1938 | ||
| Belo Cozad | Kiowa Story of the Flute | 1941 |