
Cat. No. BCD 17593: VARIOUS ARTISTS ~ THE KNOXVILLE SESSIONS 1929-1930 - SATAN IS BUSY IN KNOXVILLE. BCD 17593.
FOLLOWING ON FROM BEAR FAMILY'S SUPERB 5CD BOXSET THIS ALBUM COMPRISES 27 TRACKS LIFTED FROM THAT BOXSET. THIS TIME BEAR FAMILY IS HIGHLIGHTING TRACKS RECORDED IN KNOXVILLE IN 1929 AND 1930 BY BRUNSWICK AND VOCALION. AT THE TIME OF THESE RECORDINGS THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS WERE SUDDENLY OPENING UP AND BECOMING A SUBJECT OF CONVERSATION AND NEW INTEREST IN THE PREVIOUSLY IGNORED "MOUNTAIN PEOPLE" AND THEIR STORIES AND CRAFTS AND ESPECIALLY THEIR MUSIC. ON THE RADIO, IN THEATRES AND ON PHONOGRAPHS, KNOXVILLE - LIKE A LOT OF AMERICAN CITIES - WAS OFFERING ITS CITIZENS AN UNPRECEDENTED DIVERSITY OF CULTURAL CHOICES, ESPECIALLY IN LIVE AND RECORDED MUSIC. THE RECORDINGS ENSHRINED IN THIS CD WERE RECORDED AT THE ST. JAMES HOTEL. MOST COUNTRY MUSIC FANS EXCEPT FOR THE HARD-CORE COMPLETISTS WOULD NEVER HAVE HEARD THESE RECORDINGS PRIOR TO THE RELEASE OF THE BOXSET. PERHAPS THE COST OF THE 5CD BOXSET IS OUT OF YOUR RANGE BUT THIS CD PROVIDES YOU WITH A SMALL HISTORICAL PORTION OF EARLY COUNTRY AND OLD-TIMEY MUSIC. BRILLIANT OLD-TIMEY CD ******
TRACK LISTING: Tennessee Ramblers - Garbage Can Blues / Southern Moonlight Entertainers - Lost John / Wise String Orchestra - Yellow Dog Blues / Will Bennett - Railroad Bill / Haskell Wolfenbarger - Sailing Out On The Ocean / Ballard Cross - The Wabash Cannonball / Cal Davenport & His Gang - Double Eagle March / Senior Chapel Quartette - In My Savior's Care / Cal West - Cal West's Yodel Blues, Part 1 / Smoky Mountain Ramblers - Back To Old Smoky Mountain / Perry County Music Makers - I'm Sad And Blue / Kentucky Holiness Singers - I'm On My Way / Appalachian Vagabond - Peddler And His Wife / Gibbs Brothers with Claude Davis - Goodbye Dixie Dear / Clayton & His Melody Mountaineers - Lookout Valley Waltz / Tennessee Chocolate Drops & Tennessee Trio - Vine Street Rag / Robert A. Gardner & Lester McFarland - Asleep At The Switch / Rigel's Fountain Citians - The Nick Nack Song / Louis Bird - It's Funny What Whiskey Will Do / Leola Manning - The Arcade Building Moan / Bess Pennington - Jack And May / Uncle Jimmy Thompson - Lynchburg / Etowah Quartet - Walking With My Lord / Maynard Baird & His Orchestra - Postage Stomp / Alex Hood & His Railroad Boys - L & N Rag / Tennessee Chocolate Drops & Tennessee Trio - Knox County Stomp / Leola Manning - Satan Is Busy In Knoxville.
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