you got the love - the source featuring candi staton intercession - crown get cha - chiller loc-it-up - leprechaun until the end - gary moore & new joy halley's comet - henry lee roberts thought of you today - gene boyd party lady - suenos san francisco after dark - merle saunders feat vicky quality time - craig T cooper Featuring denise stewart another sad song - MC breeze rock with me - mello mal loneliness - oby nwankwo rainbow - w.vernal
Maybelle Carter Autoharp Lesson (introduction)
Walter & Lola Caldwell - Bright & Morning Star (American Folksong Festival, Kentucky 1934)
Roy Harvey & Leonard Copeland - Lonesome Weary Blues (Columbia 15582-D, 10/22/1929)
Frank Floyd - Fox Chase (Adelphi AD 1023, 1976)
Uncle Dave Macon- Railroadin' & Gamblin' (Bluebird Bb-B8325, 1/26/1938)
Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston - 900 Miles (Folkways, 1940s)
Wise & White - Train Blues (Madison, FL 9/6/1936 rec. Margaret Valiant)
Aunt Molly Jackson - Roll On Buddy (New York City, 1939 rec. Alan Lomax)
Etta Baker - Railroad Bill (Morganton, NC 1956 rec. Diane Hamilton, Liam Clancy, and Paul Clayton)
South Georgia Highballers - Blue Grass Twist (OKeh 45155, 10/5/1927)
Sam McGee - Knoxville Blues (Vocalion 15326, 4/17/1926)
Wade Ward - Chilly Winds (VA 1939 rec. Alan Lomax)
Hobart Smith - Pateroller Song (Saltville, VA 1956 rec. Diane Hamilton, Liam Clancy, and Paul Clayton)
W.E. Bird - Old Granny Hare (Cullowhee, NC 1925 rec. Robert Winslow Gordon)
Part 2
Tobacco auction (excerpt)
"Tex"Jenks Carman - Blackjack David (Rem 329, 1963)
Ray Lunsford - Shelia (Excellent EX-400, 1958)
Jimmie Skinner (feat. Ray Lunsford) - Carroll County Blues (Mercury 71192, 1957)
McCormick Brothers - The Banjo Fling (Hickory, 1959)
Rusty York & Kentucky Mountain Boys - Cindy (Bluegrass Special 603, 1961)
Carl Story - Why Don't You Haul Off & Get Religion? (Starday, 1960)
Fred Starr & His Mountain Boys - My Lord Will Lead Me On (Spin-o-Rama)
Allen & Wakefield - I'm Just Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail (Folkways FA-2408, 1964)
Estill Stewart & The 7 Flat Mountain Boys - I Could Love You All The Time (Arrow 2530A, 1954)
Maggie & Louie - Someone Who Loves Me (Tek 101)
Brewster Brothers - One Little Word (Acme 2025, 8/1960)
Ted Prillaman & The Virginia Ramblers - Death Of Charlie Poole
Gene Carpenter & Ernest Jones - They'll Never Land A Man On The Sun
Jack Anglin, Van Buren "Red" Anglin & Jim Anglin - Southern Whoopie Song (Vocalion 04774, 11/12/1938)
Modern Mountaineers - Moonlight Waters (Bluebird Bb-B7423, 9/18/1937)
Mainer's Mountaineers - Johnson County Blues (King, 1946)
Jack Grant - Sweetheart You Left Me (Swannonoa 001B)
Carolina Ramblers - That Lonesome Valley (Perfect 12818/Melotone 12428, 1932)
Paul Clayton - Bile Them Cabbage Down (Folkways FG 3571, 1962)
doug anderson - i need someone
ernie tucker - can she give you fever
ray agee - i'm coming home
johnnie morisette - run
lattimore brown - say what
eugene blacknell - jump back
tommy tucker - sittin home alone
ZZ hill - oh darling
lorri rudolph - don't let them tell me
the memos - my type of girl
chuck edwards - bullfight
the bayrons - wild turk
the treniers - doin''em up
lloyd price - hello little girl
elton anderson - i love you
jimmy norman - i don't love you no more
henry clement - so in love with you
bob reed & his band feat.ivory lucky - i'm leaving you
danny brown - standing on the corner
jewel gospel singers - i know the lord will make a way
Mostly your relatively ancient American folkstyles mish-mashed together here (in honor of our nation's birthday), but framed by some Euro-type things, and of course North Carolina artists are foregrounded heavily as always. To begin with, lawyer and folkie Bascom Lamar Lunsford delivers a lusty and forceful "Hesitation Blues" in Asheville, N.C. for Robert Winslow Gordon on behalf of the feds in 1925. Then do enjoy the fidelity on Rudy Cipolla & David Grisman's "Chinese Carousel" because it's about the only semi-contemporary recording here. Those men did have a way with their mandolins. I bet it wouldn't be too hard to find a cleaner copy of the 78 of D. Halkias' "Minore Tou Halkia", but the story behind my finding this reissue is somewhat unusual: One Saturday a few years ago, I was negotiating the bike rack at a used book sale in Fort Mason, and an old man with a long beard and a sailor's cap was next to me strapping an album of old rembetikas onto the back of his bike, to give to his Armenian wife, apparently. I had totally forgotten about the LP section at the store, and sure enough he left a few volumes in the series behind for me.
Next up, ethnomusicologist Laura Boulton records Yaqui Indians performing "Matachines" for an Easter ceremony in Tlaxcala, Mexico, sometime around 1940, the George Ku Trio offer the tender plaint "Kuu Lei" from 1932, and the Highway QC’s sing "How I Love Jesus" from a rather rough-sounding promo Vee Jay 45 I recently picked up in Washington, DC. Channeling the profane once more, Calvin Johnson thunders through a truly rocking "Unsatisfied Mind" (with drum thwack at its most cardboard boxy) and Eddie Taylor boasts "I’m Gonna Love You," also recording for Vee Jay. A different genre, but you might hear the same lightly swinging rhythm tipping in with Norvin Kelly's Hank-styled "You Can’t Make Me Live With The Blues." I'm pretty sure Carl Belew had a hit on "24 Hour Night" but boy it sure is a dark and sorrowful tune. That's nothing though, compared to Dave Van Ronk's "Hang Me." A dying soldier's tragic fuck-you wrapped up in a petty dream of betterness. Worthy aside: Van Ronk threw rocks at cops at Stonewall. Jimmie's cousin Ernest Rodgers got to make a few sides for Victor in the 20's ; the well-known "Willie The Chimney Sweeper" belongs to the whole Minnie the Moocher/Jerry the Junker body of lurid drug songs and also evokes a whole lot of Barbary Coast hoodoo as well. I'm sure you all know Michael Hurley, who continues to record and tour today. "Lilly Pads" is a just a great old album track, and pretty catchy too. The Blue Sky Boys, aka Bill & Earl Bolick out of Hickory, N.C., were recruited for an Illinois festival reunion in 1964 by none other than Archie Green (RIP), and "Midnight On The Stormy Deep" is but one of their many old hits rekindled that night. And now a couple of hillbilly tunes struck deep with the spirit: Fred Starr & His Mountain Boys's "Shout & Shine" is from a surprisingly stirring budget label LP, and this version of "There Ain’t No Grave" (a song I've never heard a bad version of) is off a 1961 single by Detroit-area duo by the name of Jimmie Williams & Red Ellis, both of whom had long careers prior to this. Play-party time again, and the mighty Algia Mae Hinton bangs out an "Old Time Buck Dance," mad breaks and all. Next is a record by the Internes. I'm pretty sure they're the Four Internes of Durham, N.C., whose career supposedly began while working as orderlies at Duke Hospital and recorded for King/Federal in the early 50's. "When You Pray" is an uptempo harmony fingersnapper from 1958. No surprises from Brownie McGhee's "My Fault" ; his honest and unassuming manner make the song, and it's really in that Tampa Red/Melrose family vein of solid pop blues. Les Waldroop's "Watergate Bug" is an obscure record even for him, and what a tangled, weird anachronism it is too. Collecting North Carolina records is even more fun when artists actually name-check places; that's only part of what makes Jack Grant 's "Raleigh Train" such a hoot, but it's a big part. Besides, train songs rule. Now to throw you off the scent, this isn't the Carolinian guitarist Arthur Smith, but the fiddling Arthur Smith Trio of an earlier era; their breakneck "I’m Bound To Ride" of 1935 was later covered by the Stanley Brothers. Not much info on this here National Geographic Music Of The Ozarks record, but I'll be darned if this "Guitar Medley" ain't the jam. Harmonica Frank Floyd presents the familiar "Married Man" descriptive novelty in fine form (I'd buy a bottle or two). As you can hear, he hadn't really mellowed out too much by the 70's. Sandy & Jeanie Darlington's "When I Die" is simple revival purity, somewhat blemished by the following blue record: pretty sure that Pratt & George Blues Part 2 is from an instantaneous recording from the 1930's or possibly 40's, at any rate early for this kind of aimless funk. Stirring up the kettle a little bit, Radley Gourzong's take on one of the most ur-fiddle tunes ever, "Devil’s Dream," is a field recording from the Caymans, and is from the great compilation Under the Coconut Tree on Original Music. And now we hear some fine Hungarian orchestrated soul from Asszony Lesz A Lanybol with "Levelem, Levelem" and then, also from Hungary, one of Bela Bartok's legendary cylinder recordings. This is of two girls, Battovsky and Zichla, performing "Megjott A Level Fekete Pecsettel," and it is from around 1910.
Little Sonny - Funky Broadway Monguito - Everybody Needs Help Walter Rhodes – It’s Not What you Do Yakety Yaks - Soul Night Tropicals - Mwad’s Shirlean Williams (actually Nolla Manor) & Tempo’s - Ease It To Me Concept 9 – No Escape Camille Bob - 2 weeks 2 days Tommy Lee & Autographs - Wake Up Young People 4 Tops - My Past just Crossed My Future Eliminators - Give It Up Green Berets- We Must Make Things Right Love for Dollars & Cents - In the Next World Holy Lights – I’ll Be Satisfied Music Messengers - Signed Sealed Delivered Meditation Singers - Get High on The Lord Mar-keys - Creeper's Funkatrations
(Eastern Recording Co., 1662 7th. St.) sermon excerpt Sensational Spiritual Uplifters - Heaven Bound Train Sister OM Terrell – Lord I Want You To Lead Me On Shirley Ann Lee – Without God Kansas City Melodyaires – Softly The Night Is Falling Willie Mae Williams – Don’t Want To Go There Crowns - Little Flowers Bloom James Herndon Singers – One Day Rev. & Mme. EG Robinson – Stay With Me Watts Community Choir – Keep On Keeping On Clarence Triplett & The Voices Of Faith Of Kansas City, MO – We Can Make It Gospel Sounds - Nowhere To Run Unknown - I Gotta Keep Movin Mighty Mellotones & Operation Breadbasket – Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray Knight Dreamers - No Juegues Con El Diablo Williams Brothers – Check Yourself Holy Lights Of Baltimore - You Are My Savior Teddy Grover & Joy - I Am Determined The Source Feat. Candi Staton - You Got The Love (House Radio) (Eastern Recording Co., 1662 7th. St.) Where Could I Go
So one of these doesn’t really belong (can you guess which?), but it's lyric inspired our title, and it's awesome and pretty unknown too. Many of the 45s were purchased recently, other tracks have been long time favorites. All apologies for the condition of the instant-cut disc that opens and closes (go find me a cleaner one, haha). In my eagerness to share new finds, this is more thrown-together than the usual fare, but at least the narrative is a little more clearly stated. As always, hope you enjoy (and please let me know if you do!).
