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Bristol Sessions: Historic Recordings From Bristol, Tennessee (CD)

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Detailed Description

You are a country music fan.  You have every note of music ever recorded by Johnny Cash.  You don’t have the Bristol Sessions.  You have no excuse. 

Johnny Cash called the Bristol Sessions “the single most important event in the history of country music.” 

In the summer of 1927, Ralph Peer, under the employ of the Victor Talking Machine Company, set up a temporary recording studio in the mountain city of Bristol, Tennessee-Virginia, and put out a call to the region’s musicians.  Among the acts discovered in those two weeks were three future Country Music Hall of Fame acts: the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, and Ernest V. Stoneman.

All three are represented here, along with more than a dozen other pioneers of old-time music.  Thirty-five tracks in all.  Volumes have been written on Rodgers and the Carter Family alone.  Suffice to say this is as pure as the genre gets. 

Every music lover should own this aural snapshot of country’s starting line. 

Awards

1987 Grammy Award nomination, Best Historical Album

1987 Grammy Award nomination, Best Album Notes

Disc #1

#
Track Name
Time
Listen
1
Skip To Ma Lou - Uncle Eck Dunford
2:51
#
2
O Molly Dear - B.F. Shelton
3:02
#
3
Walking In The Way With Jesus - Blind Alfred Reed
3:01
#
4
The Newmarket Wreck - Mr. & Mrs. J.W. Baker
3:00
#
5
The Soldier's Sweetheart - Jimmie Rodgers
3:04
#
6
Greasy String - West Virginia Coon Hunters
2:48
#
7
Are You Washed In The Blood - Ernest V. Stoneman & His Dixie Mountaineers
3:16
#
8
Henry Whitter's Fox Chase - Henry Whitter
3:09
#
9
Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow - The Carter Family
2:55
#
10
The Jealous Sweetheart - Johnson Brothers
3:14
#
11
When They Ring The Golden Bells - Alfred G. Karnes
2:53
#
12
Sandy River Bell - Dad Blackard's Moonshiners
3:00
#
13
Sleep Baby Sleep - Jimmie Rodgers
3:04
#
14
Johnny Goodwin - Bull Mountain Moonshiners
2:53
#
15
I'm Redeemed - Alcoa Quartet
3:07
#
16
Little Log Cabin By The Sea - The Carter Family
2:49
#
17
Old Time Corn Shuckin' Parts 1 & 2 - Blue Ridge Corn Shuckers
6:11
#

Disc #2

#
Track Name
Time
Listen
1
I Want To Go Where Jesus Is - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Quartet
2:55
#
2
Midnight On The Stormy Deep - Ernest Stoneman, Irma Frost, & Eck Dunford
3:11
#
3
The Wandering Boy - The Carter Family
3:23
#
4
To The Work - Alred G. Karnes
2:56
#
5
Black-eyed Susie - J.P. Nester
2:55
#
6
A Passing Policeman - Johnson Brothers
3:19
#
7
Tell Mother I Will Meet Her - Ernest Stonema, K. Brewer, & M. Mooney
2:58
#
8
Single Girl, Married Girl - The Carter Family
2:47
#
9
Pot Licker Blues - El Watson
2:49
#
10
The Longest Train I Ever Saw - Tenneva Ramblers
3:04
#
11
The Resurrection - Ernest Stoneman & His Dixie Mountaineers
3:08
#
12
The Storms Are On The Ocean - The Carter Family
2:49
#
13
The Wreck Of The Virginian - Blind Alfred Reed
2:56
#
14
Billy Grimes The Rover - Shelor Family
2:45
#
15
Standing On The Promises - Tennessee Mountaineers
2:41
#
16
The Mountaineer's Courtship - Ernest Stoneman, Irma Frost, & Eck Dunford
3:09
#
17
The Poor Orphan Child - The Carter Family
3:26
#
18
I'm Bound For The Promised Land - Alfred G. Karnes
3:09
#


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