Herschel Brown 1928 - 1929
Artist Biography by Bruce Eder. reproduced from AMG: Almost nothing is known of Herschel Brown's life, even as far as years of birth or death, or precisely where he came from, although he apparently hailed from Georgia. What has survived of his music, however, is an extraordinary body of interracial blues and comedy. Whatever the particulars of his life or career, Brown was apparently a star in rural Georgia and neighboring states as a virtuoso of the spoons and the washboard, leading his own bands at least from the late '20s, if not earlier. He also sang and acted in a broad, burlesque style, and his total repertory as an entertainer ranged from blues and songster-style rags to hillbilly music and comedy sketches with musical accompaniment.

John Dilleshaw 1929 - 1930
John Dilleshaw (b. 1896 near New Hope, Georgia – d. 1941), also known as Seven Foot Dilly, was an American Old-time musician and guitarist. Despite his name, he was not seven feet tall.

Frank Hutchison Vol 1 1926 - 1929
Frank Hutchison (March 20, 1891 – November 9, 1945) was an American early country blues and Piedmont blues musician and songwriter. Hutchison was best known as a slide guitar player, where he held the guitar in his lap.

Old Time Music From West Virginia 1927 - 1929

Earl Johnson Vol 1 1927

Robert Earl Johnson learned to play the fiddle from an early age, partly with some assistance from his father. When he was young, he used to practise together with his two brothers, Albert on banjo and Ester on guitar. Between 1920 and 1934, Johnson was a regular participant at the Atlanta Fiddlers' Convention.In 1923, Albert and Ester were the victims of an epidemic.The same year, Johnson joined Fiddlin' John Carson's Virginia Reelers and within two years, he made his first recordings on Paramount Records. Initially, he recorded with the 'Dixie String Band' and Arthur Tanner. He became the Georgia state fiddle champion of 1926 in Atlanta. Johnson formed the Dixie Entertainers with guitarist Byrd Moore and banjoist Emmett Bankston and they made their first recordings for Okeh Records on February 21, 1927. When Byrd Moore left, Johnson added guitarist Lee "Red" Henderson and formed 'The Clodhoppers'. The new band became successful recording for Okeh in October 1927. Although he made his last recordings in 1931, he continued to perform on the radio and on fiddlers' conventions for the remainder of his life. His last performance was on May 24, 1965 at the Stone Mountain Fiddlers' Convention in Georgia No less than a week later, he died of a heart attack Biog details courtesy of Wikipedia

Earl Johnson Vol 2 1927 - 1931

Robert Earl Johnson learned to play the fiddle from an early age, partly with some assistance from his father. When he was young, he used to practise together with his two brothers, Albert on banjo and Ester on guitar. Between 1920 and 1934, Johnson was a regular participant at the Atlanta Fiddlers' Convention.In 1923, Albert and Ester were the victims of an epidemic.The same year, Johnson joined Fiddlin' John Carson's Virginia Reelers and within two years, he made his first recordings on Paramount Records. Initially, he recorded with the 'Dixie String Band' and Arthur Tanner. He became the Georgia state fiddle champion of 1926 in Atlanta. Johnson formed the Dixie Entertainers with guitarist Byrd Moore and banjoist Emmett Bankston and they made their first recordings for Okeh Records on February 21, 1927. When Byrd Moore left, Johnson added guitarist Lee "Red" Henderson and formed 'The Clodhoppers'. The new band became successful recording for Okeh in October 1927. Although he made his last recordings in 1931, he continued to perform on the radio and on fiddlers' conventions for the remainder of his life. His last performance was on May 24, 1965 at the Stone Mountain Fiddlers' Convention in Georgia No less than a week later, he died of a heart attack Biog details courtesy of Wikipedia

The Stripling Brothers Vol 1 1928 - 1934

The Stripling Brothers Vol 2 1934 - 1936

Mississippi String Bands Vol 1 1928 - 1935

DOCD-8009 Mississippi String Bands Vol. 1 (1928-1935) Floyd Ming & His Pep Seppers: Hoyt Ming, fiddle; Troy Ming, mandolin; Rozelle Ming, guitar; A.D. Coggin, calls on �Indian War Whoop�. Carter Brothers & Son; George Carter: vocal, fiddle; Andrew Carter, fiddle; Jimmie Carter, guitar. Red Whitehaed & Dutch Coleman: Red Whitehead, harmonica; Dutch Coleman, guitar. Freeny�s Barn Dance Band: Leslie Freeny, fiddle, Hendrix Freeny, fiddle; Cleveland Freeny, mandolin; S. Carlton Freeny, tenor banjo; Fonzo Cannon, vocal, guitar. The Freeny Harmonizers: Ira Ellis, fiddle; S. Carlton Freeny, tenor banjo; Neal Babb, vocal, guitar. Genres: Old Timey, Vintage Country, Country fiddle, Country harmonica, Mississippi country. Informative booklet notes by Tony Russell. Detailed discography. Mississippi fiddle music of the '20s and '30s is a hauntingly unusual dialect of old-time music. It differed from contemporary South-eastern styles in both grammar and vocabulary: it offered almost no role to the five-string banjo and, while it embraced a good deal of standard Southern fiddle repertoire, it had much too that was peculiar to it, such as oddly transformed Old World polkas and hornpipes, and a deep vein of blues. Continued...

Kessinger Brothers Vol 1 1928 - 1929

Kessinger Brothers Vol 2 1929
Artist Biography by Bruce Eder .Reproduced from AMG Clark Kessinger (1896-1975) and Luches Kessinger (1906-1944) -- who were not brothers but were related -- were among the top fiddle duos of their era, and left behind an enviable body of music in just three years of steady recording.

Kessinger Brothers Vol 3 1929 - 1930

Kentucky Gospel 1927 - 1928

Fiddlin' John Carson Vol 1 1923 - 1924
Fiddlin' John Carson (March 23, 1868 – December 11, 1949) was an American old-time fiddler and an early-recorded country musician.

Fiddlin' John Carson Vol 2 1924 - 1925

Fiddlin' John Carson Vol 3 1925 - 1926

Fiddlin' John Carson Vol 4 1926 - 1927

Fiddlin' John Carson Vol 5 1927 - 1929

Fiddlin' John Carson Vol 6 1929 - 1930

Fiddlin' John Carson Vol 7 1930 - 1934

Georgia String Bands Vol 1 1927 - 1930

Blind Alfred Reed 1927 - 1929

Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters 1927 - 1929

Georgia Songsters 1926 - 1930

Burnett & Rutherford 1926 - 1930

Kelly Harrell Vol 1 1925 - 1926

Kelly Harrell Vol 2 1926 - 1929

Mississippi String Bands Vol 2 1928 - 1930

Leake County Revelers Vol 1 1927 - 1928

DOCD-8029 Leake Country Revellers Vol. 1 1927 � 1928) Leak County Revellers: Will Gilmer, vocal, fiddle; R.O. Mosley, mandolin; Jim Wolverton, banjo; Dallas Jones, guitar. Genres: Old Timey, Vintage country music, Country fiddle, Country string band. Informative booklet note by Tony Russell. Detailed discography. Abridged from DOCD-8029 booklet notes. The most famous string band in Mississippi in the '20s might just as accurately have called itself by another name. Two of its members lived in Sebastopol, the town where the four men first teamed up - and Sebastopol lies in Scott County. But only a walk from the Leake County line. The ensemble sound of the Leake County Revelers is highly distinctive. With fiddle and mandolin as joint lead voices and the guitar's rhythmic role somewhat understated, the music is light, cool and airy. It feels more old-fashioned than the hot, hard-driving stuff of contemporaries like the Skillet-Lickers (Document DOCD-8056 to DOCD-806) and is often closer in spirit to South-western bands like the East Texas Serenaders (Document DOCD-8031) or Taylor-Grigg's Louisiana Melody Makers, or even the African-American Dallas String Band (Document DOCD-5161).

Leake County Revelers Vol 2 1929 - 1930

East Texas Serenaders 1927 - 1937

Alabama String Bands 1924 - 1937

Emerging from the static on these extremely rare recordings is excellent fiddling in a variety of styles by Alabamians whose fame did not extend far beyond the state lines.

The Chattanooga Boys Allen Brothers Vol 1 1927 - 1930

The Chattanooga Boys Allen Brothers Vol 2 1930 - 1932

The Chattanooga Boys Allen Brothers Vol 3 1932 - 1934

Sam McGee 1926 - 1934

Nashville 1928

This is the first chapter of a long and winding tale: how a leafy Mid-Southern city with an attraction for the insurance business grew into the Third Coast of the American record industry. Yet the story of Music City USA opens not in Owen Bradley's Quonset hut or RCA's studio B, nor with independent labels of the '40s like Bullet Records, but in a temporary studio in a downtown office building, one week in 1928.

Texas Fiddle Bands Vol 1 1925 - 1930

Hill Billies / Al Hopkins & His Buckle Busters Vol 1

Hill Billies / Al Hopkins & Buckle Busters Vol 2

Hill Billies / Al Hopkins & Buckle Busters Vol 3

Fiddlin' Doc Roberts Vol 1 1925 - 1928

Fiddlin' Doc Roberts Vol 2 1928 - 1930

Fiddlin' Doc Roberts Vol 3 1930 - 1934

Lowe Stokes Vol 1 1927 - 1930

The Dixon Brothers Vol 1 1936

The first of four volumes, chronicling the recording career of one of country music's most individualistic of the so-called "½brother acts" which flourished in during the thirties, covers their first three recording sessions.

The Dixon Brothers Vol 2 1937

The second of four volumes, chronicling the recording career of one of country musics most individualistic of the so-called "½brother acts" which flourished in during the thirties.

The Dixon Brothers Vol 3 1937 - 1938

The third of four volumes, chronicling the recording career of one of country music�s most individualistic of the so-called �brother acts� which flourished in during the thirties.

The Dixon Brothers Vol 4 1938

Roy Harvey Vol 1 1926 - 1927

This is the first of four volumes featuring the complete recorded works of the hillbilly recording artist, Roy Harvey. The 4 volume set follows Harvey's recording career over a five year period from his first recordings in New York in September 1926 to his last recording session in Atlanta, October 1931 and includes some of the finest hillbilly recordings of the era.

Roy Harvey Vol 2 1928 - 1929

This is the second of four volumes featuring the complete recorded works of the hillbilly recording artist, Roy Harvey. The 4 volume set follows Harvey's recording career over a five year period from his first recordings in New York in September 1926 to his last recording session in Atlanta, October 1931 and includes some of the finest hillbilly recordings of the era.

Roy Harvey Vol 3 1929 - 1930

The third of four volumes featuring the complete recorded works of the hillbilly recording artist, Roy Harvey. The 4 volume set follows Harvey's recording career over a five year period from his first recordings in New York in September 1926 to his last recording session in Atlanta, October 1931 and includes some of the finest hillbilly recordings of the era.

Roy Harvey Vol 4 1931

The last of four volumes featuring the complete recorded works of the hillbilly recording artist, Roy Harvey. The 4 volume set follows Harvey's recording career over a five year period from his first recordings in New York in September 1926 to his last recording session in Atlanta, October 1931 and includes some of the finest hillbilly recordings of the era.

Grayson & Whitter Vol 1 1927 - 1928

Grayson & Whitter Vol 2 1927 - 1928

The Skillet Lickers Vol 1 1926 - 1927

This is the first of six volumes featuring the complete recorded works of The Skillet Lickers. The 6 volume set covers some of the finest, and some of the rarest, hillbilly and string band recordings of what is often called the golden age of old-time music.

The Skillet Lickers Vol 2 1927 - 1928

This is the second of six volumes featuring the complete recorded works of The Skillet Lickers. The 6 volume set covers some of the finest, and some of the rarest, hillbilly and string band recordings of what is often called the golden age of old-time music.

The Skillet Lickers Vol 3 1928 - 1929

This is the third of six volumes featuring the complete recorded works of The Skillet Lickers. The 6 volume set covers some of the finest, and some of the rarest, hillbilly and string band recordings of what is often called the golden age of old-time music.

The Skillet Lickers Vol 4 1928 - 1930

This is the fourth of six volumes featuring the complete recorded works of The Skillet Lickers. The 6 volume set covers some of the finest, and some of the rarest, hillbilly and string band recordings of what is often called the golden age of old-time music.

The Skillet Lickers Vol. 5 1930 -1934

This is the fifth of six volumes featuring the complete recorded works of The Skillet Lickers. The 6 volume set covers some of the finest, and some of the rarest, hillbilly and string band recordings of what is often called the golden age of old-time music.

The Skillet Lickers Vol. 6 1934

The final volume of the Skillet Lickers 6 volume set covers some of the finest, and some of the rarest, hillbilly and string band recordings of what is often called the golden age of old-time music.

Walter Smith & Friends Vol. 1

This is the first of three volumes featuring the complete recorded works of Walter Smith & Friends. The 3 volume set covers some of the finest, and some of the rarest, recordings of what is often called the golden age of old-time music.

Walter Smith & Friends Vol. 2

This is the second of three volumes featuring the complete recorded works of Walter Smith & Friends. The 3 volume set of Walter Smith & Friends covers some of the finest, and some of the rarest, recordings of what is often called the golden age of old-time music.

Walter Smith & Friends Vol. 3

This is the third and final volume featuring the complete recorded works of Walter Smith & Friends. The 3 volume set of Walter Smith & Friends covers some of the finest, and some of the rarest, recordings of what is often called the golden age of old-time music.

Narmour and Smith Vol.1 Complete Recorded Works (1928-1930)

William Thomas Narmour, fiddle. Shellie Walton Smith, guitar. Genres: Old Timey, String Band, Mississippi country fiddle. Informative booklet notes by Harry Bolick. Detailed discography. Polk Brockman of Okeh records discovered Narmour and Smith at the Winona fiddle contest organized by Doc Bailey in 1927. Their recording, �Carroll County Blues,� with �Charleston #1� as a B-side, was �one of the biggest selling records of 1929,� according to Talking Machine World, a recording industry trade paper. �Someone I Love� was nearly as well received. Their popularity continued even as the recording industry began to suffer during the Depression. Along with the Ray Brothers, they were the last of the Mississippi fiddle bands to record in that period.

Narmour & Smith Vol.2 Complete Recorded Works (1930-1934)
William Thomas Narmour, fiddle. Shellie Walton Smith, guitar. Genres: Old Timey, String Band, Mississippi country fiddle. Informative booklet notes by Harry Bolick. Detailed discography. Polk Brockman of Okeh records discovered Narmour and Smith at the Winona fiddle contest organized by Doc Bailey in 1927. Their recording, “Carroll County Blues,” with “Charleston #1” as a B-side, was “one of the biggest selling records of 1929,” according to Talking Machine World, a recording industry trade paper. “Someone I Love” was nearly as well received. Their popularity continued even as the recording industry began to suffer during the Depression. Along with the Ray Brothers, they were the last of the Mississippi fiddle bands to record in that period.

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The Georgia Yellow Hammers and Associates Vol. 1 1924 - March 1927 - Fourth of July At A County Fair

The first of 4 volumes with volumes three and four to be released pre December.

Various Artists
Informative booklet notes by Tony Russell
Detailed discography.
Includes previously un-reissued recordings.

Bill Chitwood and Bud Landress, with their friends Phil Reeve, Ernest Moody and Clyde Evans, and associates such as Andrew and Jim Baxter, the Harper brothers, Gus Boaz, Lawrence Neal and others, would represent and promote the musical culture of their region for most of a decade. Thanks to them, Gordon County, Georgia, has come to be held in high regard by lovers of old-time Southern music. Today we can see it as a prism, its facets reflecting the different forms of Southern music: old-time fiddling, quartet singing, stringband ensembles, rustic comedy, yodelling, blues. Continued...

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The Georgia Yellow Hammers and Assoc. Vol. 2 - Bill Wishes He Was Single Again

The second of four volumes with volumes three and four to be released pre December.

Bill Chitwood and Bud Landress, with their friends Phil Reeve, Ernest Moody and Clyde Evans, and associates such as Andrew and Jim Baxter, the Harper brothers, Gus Boaz, Lawrence Neal and others, would represent and promote the musical culture of their region for most of a decade. Thanks to them, Gordon County, Georgia, has come to be held in high regard by lovers of old-time Southern music. Today we can see it as a prism, its facets reflecting the different forms of Southern music: old-time fiddling, quartet singing, stringband ensembles, rustic comedy, yodelling, blues. Continued...

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The Georgia Yellow Hammers And Assoc. Vol.3 - Warhorse Game

Various Artists
Informative booklet notes by Tony Russell
Detailed discography.
Includes previously un-reissued recordings.

Bill Chitwood and Bud Landress, with their friends Phil Reeve, Ernest Moody and Clyde Evans, and associates such as Andrew and Jim Baxter, the Harper brothers, Gus Boaz, Lawrence Neal and others, would represent and promote the musical culture of their region for most of a decade. Thanks to them, Gordon County, Georgia, has come to be held in high regard by lovers of old-time Southern music. Today we can see it as a prism, its facets reflecting the different forms of Southern music: old-time fiddling, quartet singing, stringband ensembles, rustic comedy, yodelling, blues. Continued...

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The Georgia Yellow Hammers and Associates Vol. 4: (1929 - 1931) White Lightning

Various Artists
Informative booklet notes by Tony Russell
Detailed discography.
Includes previously un-reissued recordings.

Bill Chitwood and Bud Landress, with their friends Phil Reeve, Ernest Moody and Clyde Evans, and associates such as Andrew and Jim Baxter, the Harper brothers, Gus Boaz, Lawrence Neal and others, would represent and promote the musical culture of their region for most of a decade. Thanks to them, Gordon County, Georgia, has come to be held in high regard by lovers of old-time Southern music. Today we can see it as a prism, its facets reflecting the different forms of Southern music: old-time fiddling, quartet singing, stringband ensembles, rustic comedy, yodelling, blues. Continued...

Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s

3 CD Set
147 tracks
Includes 12 page illustrated booklet by Harry Bolick.
Detailed discography.

Primarily conceived as a way to get people and the economy back to work, Roosevelt's WPA arts projects published state tour guides, collected ex-slave narratives, and collected folklore of all sorts, but especially folk music.

This set contains the complete fiddle and banjo field recordings collected by Herbert Halpert for his 1939 field trip in Mississippi. Then working with the New York chapter of the Federal Theatre project Halpert was drafted by the Federal Music Project to produce the recordings. An army ambulance was donated and renovated with WPA labor. The Library of Congress loaned recording equipment. The Presto 78 disc cutter, then the state of the art for portable recording equipment, was installed in the ambulance, which was later nicknamed the "Soundwagon." Continued...