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Double nominations for the 54th GRAMMY Awards ('Best Historical Album', 'Best Album Notes').
'The single most important event in the history of country music.' (JOHNNY CASH, on the 1927 Bristol sessions). This is the foundation of country music! An unsurpassed storehouse of traditional American music, featuring the first recordings by the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers. The legendary sessions issued complete for the first and only time, including the ultra-rare follow-up sessions from 1928! The recording trip made by Victor Records to Bristol, Tennessee in July-August 1927 was a defining moment in country music. Producer Ralph Peer found two acts that acquired national and international fame: Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family. But more than a hundred other recordings were made at the Bristol sessions of 1927 and '28. There were ballad singers, street evangelists, string bands, gospel quartets, harmonica virtuosos, Holiness preachers, blues guitarists and rural storytellers. A snapshot of rural American music was caught in an era of rapid change: pictures of a past almost beyond recall, but preserved for ever in these magnificent recordings. The five CDs in this set gather every surviving recording from these sessions, including alternative takes. The accompanying 120-page, LP-sized hardcover book contains newly researched essays on the background to the sessions and on the individual artists, with many rare and unpublished photographs. Also included are complete song lyrics and a detailed discography, illustrated with reproductions of the original recording sheets.
TracksCredits
- Disc 1 -
1 The Dying Girl's Farewell
2 Tell Mother I Will Meet Her
3 The Mountaineer's Courtship
4 Midnight on the Stormy Deep
5 Sweeping Through the Gates
6 I Know My Name Is There
7 Are You Washed in the Blood?
8 No More Good-Byes
9 The Resurrection [Take 1] [Take]
10 The Resurrection [Take 2] [Take]
11 I Am Resolved [Take 1] [Take]
12 I Am Resolved [Take 2] [Take]
13 I Want to Go Where Jesus Is
14 Do, Lord, Remember Me
15 Old Ship of Zion
16 Jesus Getting Us Ready for That Great Day
17 Happy in Prison
18 Don't Grieve After Me
19 What Will I Do, for My Money's All Gone
20 The Whip-Poor-Will's Song
21 Skip to Ma Lou, My Darling
22 Barney McCoy
23 Old Time Corn Shuckin, Part 1
24 Old Time Corn Shuckin, Part 2
- Disc 2 -
1 The Jealous Sweetheart [Take 1] [Take]
2 The Jealous Sweetheart [Take 2] [Take]
3 A Passing Policeman
4 Just a Message from Carolina
5 The Wreck of the Virginian [Take 1] [Take]
6 The Wreck of the Virginian [Take 2] [Take]
7 I Mean to Live for Jesus
8 You Must Unload
9 Walking in the Way with Jesus [Take 1] [Take]
10 Walking in the Way with Jesus [Take 2] [Take]
11 Two Brothers Are We
12 The Soldier's Poor Little Boy
13 I Want to See My Mother (Ten Thousand Miles a
14 Pot Liquor Blues
15 Narrow Gauge Blues
16 Cold Penitentiary Blues
17 Oh Molly Dear
18 Pretty Polly
19 Darling Cora
20 Called to the Foreign Field
21 I Am Bound for the Promised Land
22 Where We'll Never Grow Old
23 When They Ring the Golden Bells
24 To the Work
25 Train on the Island
26 Black-Eyed Susie
27 Johnny Goodwin
- Disc 3 -
1 Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow
2 Little Log Cabin By the Sea
3 The Poor Orphan Child
4 The Storms Are on the Ocean
5 Single Girl, Married Girl
6 The Wandering Boy
7 Remember Me, O Mighty One
8 I'm Redeemed
9 Henry Whitter's Fox Chase
10 Rain Crow Bill
11 Big Bend Gal
12 Suzanna Gal
13 Sandy River Belle [Take 1] [Take]
14 Sandy River Belle [Take 2] [Take]
15 Billy Grimes, the Rover
16 The Newmarket Wreck
17 On the Banks of the Sunny Tennessee
18 The Soldier S Sweetheart
19 Sleep Baby Sleep
20 The Longest Train I Ever Saw
21 Sweet Heaven When I Die
22 Miss Liza, Poor Gal
23 Greasy String
24 Your Blue Eyes Run Me Crazy
25 Standing on the Promises
26 Shall We Gather at the River
- Disc 4 -
1 My Name Is Ticklish Reuben
2 Way Down in Alabama
3 Do Not Wait 'Till I'm Laid 'Neath the Clay
4 The Days of My Childhood Plays
5 We Shall All Be Reunited
6 If the Light Has Gone Out in Your Soul
7 Went Up in the Clouds of Heaven
8 I Know That Jesus Set Me Free
9 Shine on Me
10 Bright Tomorrow
11 A Little Talk with Jesus
12 I Cannot Be Your Sweetheart
13 Three Black Sheep
14 Good-Night Darling
15 The Broken-Hearted Lover
16 Angeline, the Baker
17 Old Shoes and Leggin's
18 We Parted By the Riverside
19 Down to Jordan and Be Saved
20 There's a Light Lit Up in Galilee
21 Going Up the Mountain After Liquor, Part 1
22 Going Up the Mountain After Liquor, Part 2
23 The Spanish Merchant's Daughter
24 Too Late
- Disc 5 -
1 I'll Be Happy
2 Like the Rainbow
3 Because I Love Him
4 Come to the Savior
5 Do Your Best, Then Wear a Smile
6 We Shall Reach Home
7 My Mother Is Waiting for Me in Heaven Above
8 She Has Climbed the Golden Stair
9 We LL Sing on That Shore
10 Singing the Story of Grace
11 Help Me to Find the Way
12 He LL Be with Me
13 Brownie Blues
14 Unknown Blues
15 Where Is My Mamma?
16 When You Go a Courtin'
17 I Sat Upon the River Bank
18 New Orleans Is the Town I Like Best
19 She Tells Me That I Am Sweet
20 Mr. Brown, Here I Come
21 I Truly Understand, You Love Another Man
22 My Mother's Hands
