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B. F.   S H E L T O N; source:
source: Wolfe & Olson: The Bristol Sessions (2005), p. 50
(Charles Wolfe collection)
B.F. Shelton
B.F. (Benjamin Frank) Shelton
b. January 1, 1902 in Clay County, Kentucky
d. 1963 in Corbin, Whitley County, Kentucky

discography

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10/12 inch 78 rpm
11930B. F. Shelton

- Cold Penitentiary Blues (39734-1)   @ youtube   @ Spotify
- Oh Molly Dear (39735-2)   @ youtube

rec. July 28, 1927 in Bristol, TN; B.F. Shelton, voc, bj

10 inch 78 rpm

Victor V-40107

21930B. F. Shelton

- Darling Cora (39737-1)   @ youtube
- Pretty Polly (39736-2)   @ youtube   @ Spotify

rec. July 28, 1927 in Bristol, TN; B.F. Shelton, voc, bj

12 inch 78 rpm

Victor 35838


LP / CD compilations
31964A Collection Of Mountain Ballads

Clarence Ashley - Dark Holler Blues
Kelly Harrell - Henry Clay Beattie
Uncle Dave Macon accompanied by Sam McGee - John Henry
Piedmont Log Rollers - Sweet Sunny South
Blind Alfred Reed - Wreck Of The Virginian
Floyd County Ramblers - Sunny Tennessee

G.B. Grayson, Henry Whitter - I've Always Been A Rambler
Green Bailey - The Fate Of Ellen Smith
The Red Fox Chasers - Wreck On The Mountain Road
John Foster, Leonard Rutherford - Six Months Ain't Long

B.F. Shelton - Darling Cora
North Carolina Ramblers - George Collins


County 502 (US 1964)

41967Native American Ballads

Carl T. Sprague - The Two Soldiers (3:00)
Vernon Dalhart - Death Of Floyd Collins (3:21)
The Hall Brothers - Little Mo-Hee (3:07)
Red Patterson's Piedmont Log Rollers - Down On The Banks Of The Ohio (4:22)
The Delmore Brothers - They Say It Is Sinful To Flirt (2:37)
Bradley Kincaid - Sweet Betsy From Pike (3:00)
Kelly Harrell And The Virginia String Band - My Name Is John Johanna (3:13)
Jazz Gillum - Big Katy Adams (2:56)

The Swingbillies - Leavin' Home (2:20)
Newton Gaines - Wreck Of The Six Wheeler (2:45)
Travis B. Hale & E. J. Derry, Jr. - The Dying Hobo (2:42)
Jimmie Davis - Wild And Reckless Hobo (2:45)
Dick Devall - Tom Sherman's Barroom (2:37)
Harry "Mac" McClintock - Jesse James (2:26)
Tenneva Ramblers - Seven Long Years In Prison (3:23)

B.F. Shelton - Cold Penitentiary Blues (3:24)

prod. by Mike Lipskin

notes by D.K. Wilgus

RCA Victor LPV-548 (Vintage Series)

4a1968Traditional Country Classics   1927-1929

Earl Johnson And His Clodhoppers - Leather Breeches
Grayson And Whitter - What You Gonna' Do With The Baby
Taylors' Kentucky Boys - Gray Eagle
Ernest Stoneman - Kenney Wagner's Surrender
Cranford, Miles & Thompso - Honeysuckle Time
George "Dad" Crockett - Sugar Hill
Carrol County Ramblers - Georgia Wobble Blues

Earl Johnson And His Clodhoppers - Red Hot Breakdown
Ben Jarrell, DeCosta Woltz's Southern Broadcasters - Yellow Rose Of Texas
DeCosta Woltz's Southern Broadcasters, Marion Underwood, Jackson Young - Take Me Back To The Sweet Sunny South
Charlie Poole's North Carolina Ramblers - Just Keep Waiting Till' The Good Time Comes
Burnett And Rutherford - She's A Flower From The Fields Of Alabama

B.F. Shelton - Oh Molly Dear
Dilly And His Dill Pickles - Lye Soap Breakdown

compiled by Joe Bussard, Jr.; prod. by Arnold S. Caplin
cover artwork by Fred Romary

notes by Richard Nevins

Historical HLP 8003 (US 1968)

Historical Records discography

51972Old Time Ballads From The Southern Mountains

B.F. Shelton - Pretty Polly
Frank Jenkins' Pilot Mountaineers - Burial Of Wild Bill
Mr. & Mrs. J.W. Baker - The Newmarket Wreck
Burnett & Rutherford - Pearl Bryan
Watts & Wilson - The Sporting Cowboy
Blind Alfred Reed - Fate Of Chris Liveley & Wife

The Carolina Buddies - Otto Wood The Bandit
John Hammond - My Mama Always Talked To Me
G.B. Grayson & Henry Whitter - The Banks Of The Ohio
Emry Arthur - The Broken Wedding
The Hickory Nuts - Louisville Burglar
Kelly Harrell & The Virginia String Band - Charles Guiteau


 
County 522 (US 1972)

61987The Bristol Sessions

- Skip To Ma Lou, My Darling - Uncle Eck Dunford
- O Molly Dear - B.F. Shelton
- Walking In The Way With Jesus (39728-1) - Blind Alfred Reed
- The Newmarket Wreck - Mr. & Mrs. J.W. Baker
- The Soldier's Sweetheart - Jimmie Rodgers
- Greasy String - West Virginia Coon Hunters
- Are You Washed In The Blood? - Ernest V. Stoneman & His Dixie Mountaineers
- Henry Whitter's Fox Chase - Henry Whitter
- Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow Tree - The Carter Family
- The Jealous Sweetheart - Johnson Brothers
- When They Ring The Golden Bells - Alfred G. Karnes
- Sandy River Belle - Dad Blackard's Moonshiners
- Sleep, Baby, Sleep - Jimmie Rodgers
- Johnny Goodwin - Bull Mountain Moonshiners
- I'm Redeemed - Alcoa Quartet
- Little Log Cabin By The Sea - Carter Family
- Old Time Corn Shuckin' (Parts 1 & 2) - Blue Ridge Corn Shuckers


- I Want To Go Where Jesus Is - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Quartet
- Midnight On The Stormy Deep - Ernest Stoneman, Irma Frost & Eck Dunford
- The Wandering Boy - The Carter Family
- To The Work - Alfred G. Karnes
- Black-Eyed Susie - J.P. Nestor
- A Passing Policeman - Johnson Brothers
- Tell Mother I Will Meet Her - Ernest Stoneman, K. Brewer & M. Mooney
- Single Girl, Married Girl - The Carter Family
- Pot Licker Blues - El Watson

- The Longest Train I Ever Saw - Tenneva Ramblers
- The Resurrection - Ernest Stoneman & His Dixie Mountaineers
- The Storms Are On The Ocean - Carter Family
- The Wreck Of The Virginian (39725-1) - Blind Alfred Reed
- Billy Grimes, The Rover - Shelor Family
- Standing On The Promises - Tennessee Mountaineers
- The Mountaineer's Courtship - Ernest Stoneman, Irma Frost & Eck Dunford
- The Poor Orphan Child - Carter Family
- I Am Bound For The Promised Land - Alfred G. Karnes


DLP
notes by Charles Wolfe

Country Music Foundation CMF-011-L (Ca 1987)

= Country Music Foundation CMF-011-D (Ca 1991)

71995Music of Kentucky   Vol. 1

Alfred Karnes - Called to the Foreign Field
B.F. Shelton - Pretty Polly
W.M. Stepp - The Ways of the World
Kentucky Ramblers - The Unfortunate Brakeman
Ernest Phipps and his Holiness Quartet - I Want to Go Where Jesus Is
Alex Hood's Railroad Boys - L and N Rag
Alfred Karnes - I Am Bound for the Promised Land
W.M. Stepp - Bonaparte's Retreat
Ernest Phipps and his Holiness Singers - A Little Talk with Jesus
Walker's Corbin Ramblers - Ned Went a Fishin'

B.F. Shelton - Darling Cora
W.M. Stepp - Callahan
Kentucky Ramblers - Ginseng Blues
Ernest Phipps and his Holiness Singers - If the Light Has Gone Out of Your Soul
Alfred Karnes - We Shall All Be Reunited
W.M. Stepp and Mae Puckett - The Old Hen She Cackled
Kentucky Ramblers - Do Not Wait Till I'm Laid Beneath the Clay

B.F. Shelton - Oh Molly Dear
Ernest Phipps and his Holiness Singers - Don't Grieve on Me
W.M. Stepp and Walter Williams - Mud Fence
Alfred Karnes - Where We'll Never Grow Old
Walker's Corbin Ramblers - Ruffles and Bustles
Ernest Phipps and his Holiness Singers - Shine on Me
W.M. Stepp - Silver Strand
Kentucky Ramblers - Glory to the Lamb



Yazoo CD 2013 (US 1995)

Yazoo Records discography

81996Before The Blues   Vol. 1
The Early American Black Music Scene

- Bamalong Blues - Andrew And Jim Baxter
- Run Mollie Run - Henry Thomas
- Lonesome Road Blues - Sam Collins
- Jackson Stomp - Missippi Mud Steppers
- On Jordan's Stormy Banks We Stand - Seventh Day Adventist Choir
- Mississippi Jail House Groan - Rube Lacy
- Forked Deer - Taylor's Kentucky Boys
- Bye Bye Baby Blues - Little Hat Jones

- Pretty Polly - B.F. Shelton
- Soft Steel Piston - Weaver & Beasley
- Two White Horses In A Line - Evans & McClain
- Jamestown Exhibition - Bayless Rose
- Dupree Blues - Willie Walker
- France Blues - Papa Harvey Hull
- Dying Mother And Her Child - Rev. Gates & Congregation
- John Hardy - Buell Kazee
- Wayward Girl Blues - Lottie Kimbrough
- Newport Blues - Cincinnati Jug Band
- Tom Sherman's Barroom - Dick Devall
- Stack O'Lee Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
- Lawdy Lawdy Worried Blues - Teddy Darby
- I'll Go With Her Blues - Robert Wilkins
- Christian Soldier - Denson Quartet



Yazoo CD 2015 (US 1996)

Yazoo Records discography

92002RCA Country Legends
The Bristol Legends Vol. 1

- Big Bend Gal - Shelor Family
- Pretty Polly - B.F. Shelton
- What Will I Do, For My Money's All Gone - Uncle Eck Dunford & Hattie Stoneman
- At The River - Tennessee Mountaineers
- Miss Liza, Poor Gal - Tenneva Ramblers
- The Soldier's Sweetheart - Jimmie Rodgers
- Single Girl, Married Girl - The Carter Family
- Called To The Foreign Field - Alfred G. Karnes
- Just A Message From Carolina - The Brothers Johnson
- Sweeping Through The Gates - Ernest V. Stoneman & His Dixie Mountaineers
- The Storms Are On The Ocean - The Carter Family
- Narrow Gauge Blues - El Watson
- Dying Girl's Farewell - Ernest Stoneman, Kahle Brewer & Walter Mooney
- Train On The Island - J.P. Nestor
- You Must Unload - Alfred Reed
- Your Blue Eyes Run Me Crazy - West Virginia Coon Hunters
- Remember Me O Mighty One - Alcoa Quartet
- Sleep Baby, Sleep - Jimmie Rodgers



RCA/BMG Heritage 65131

102002Man Of Constant Sorrow and Other Timeless Mountain Ballads
Classic Recordings of the 1920s and 30s

Lewis McDaniel & Walter Smith - I Went To See My Sweetheart
B.F. Shelton - Oh Molly Dear
Burnett & Rutherford - Willie Moore
Jimmie Tarlton - Lowe Bonnie
G.B. Grayson - Ommie Wise
Blue Sky Boys - In The Hills Of Roana County
Earl Johnson & His Dixie Entertainers - John Henry Blues
Roy Harvey & North Carolina Ramblers - George Collins
Buell Kazee - John Hardy
Emry Arthur - Man Of Constant Sorrow
Hickory Nuts - Louisville Burglar
Parker & Woolbright - Will The Weaver

B.F. Shelton - Darling Cora
Grayson & Whitter - I've Always Been A Rambler
Cousin Emmy - Pretty Little Miss Out In The Garden
Charlie Poole & North Carolina Ramblers - He Rambled
Green Baily - The Fate Of Ellen Smith
Ernest Stoneman & Kahle Brewer - Wreck Of The Old 97
Eck Robertson & Family - The Island Unknown - Part 1
Eck Robertson & Family - The Island Unknown - Part 2



Yazoo CD 3001 (US 2002)

Yazoo Records discography

112005Old Time Mountain Banjo

- Leather Britches - W.A. Hinton
- Baptist Shout - Frank Jenkins

- Oh Molly Dear - B.F. Shelton
- Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Medley - Charlie Poole & Lucy Terry
- Far In The Mountain - Red Headed Fiddlers
- Don't Get Weary Children - Uncle Dave Macon
- Coo Coo Bird - Clarence Ashley
- Italy - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
- Shuffle Feet Shuffle - Whitter, Hendley, & Small
- Charming Betsy - Land Norris
- Coal Creek March - Marion Underwood
- Going Back To Jericho - Dock Walsh

- Pretty Polly - B.F. Shelton
- Home Sweet Home - Frank Jenkins
- Orphan Girl - Buell Kazee
- American & Spanish Fandango - Smith & Allgood
- Little Birdie - John Hammond
- Banjo Pickin' Girl - Coon Creek Girls


16-pp. booklet with notes by Bob Buckingham

County CO-CD-3533 (US 2005)

122011The Bristol Sessions 1927/28
The Big Bang of Country Music

disc 1:
- The Dying Girl's Farewell - Ernest V. Stoneman/Kahle Brewer
- Tell Mother I Will Meet Her - Ernest V. Stoneman/Kahle Brewer
- The Mountaineer's Courtship - Irma Frost/Ernest V. Stoneman
- Midnight on the Stormy Deep - Irma Frost/Ernest V. Stoneman
- Sweeping Through the Gates - Ernest V. Stoneman
- I Know My Name Is There - Ernest V. Stoneman & His Dixie Mountaineers
- Are You Washed in the Blood? - Ernest V. Stoneman & His Dixie Mountaineers
- No More Good-Byes - Ernest V. Stoneman & His Dixie Mountaineers
- The Resurrection [Take 1] - Ernest V. Stoneman & His Dixie Mountaineers (take)
- The Resurrection [Take 2] - Ernest V. Stoneman & His Dixie Mountaineers (take)
- I Am Resolved [Take 1] - Ernest V. Stoneman & His Dixie Mountaineers (take)
- I Am Resolved [Take 2] - Ernest V. Stoneman & His Dixie Mountaineers (take)
- I Want to Go Where Jesus Is - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Quartet
- Do, Lord, Remember Me - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Quartet
- Old Ship of Zion - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Quartet
- Jesus Getting Us Ready for That Great Day - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Quartet
- Happy in Prison - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Quartet
- Don't Grieve After Me - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Quartet
- What Will I Do, For My Money's All Gone - Hattie Stoneman/Uncle Eck Dunford
- The Whip-Poor-Will's Song - Uncle Eck Dunford
- Skip To Ma Lou, My Darling - Uncle Eck Dunford
- Barney McCoy - Ernest V. Stoneman/Uncle Eck Dunford
- Old Time Corn Shuckin', Pt. 1 - The Blue Ridge Corn Shuckers
- Old Time Corn Shuckin', Pt. 2 - The Blue Ridge Corn Shuckers

disc 2:
- The Jealous Sweetheart [Take 1] - The Johnson Brothers (take)
- The Jealous Sweetheart [Take 2] - The Johnson Brothers (take)
- Passing Policeman, A - The Johnson Brothers
- Just a Message from Carolina - The Johnson Brothers
- The Wreck of the Virginian [Take 1] - Blind Alfred Reed (take)
- The Wreck of the Virginian [Take 2] - Blind Alfred Reed (take)
- I Mean to Live for Jesus - Blind Alfred Reed
- You Must Unload - Blind Alfred Reed
- Walking in the Way With Jesus [Take 1] - Blind Alfred Reed (take)
- Walking in the Way With Jesus [Take 2] - Blind Alfred Reed (take)
- Two Brothers Are We - The Johnson Brothers
- The Soldier's Poor Little Boy - The Johnson Brothers
- I Want to See My Mother (Ten Thousand Miles A - The Johnson Brothers
- Pot Liquor Blues - El Watson
- Narrow Gauge Blues - El Watson

- Cold Penitentiary Blues - B.F. Shelton
- Oh Molly Dear - B.F. Shelton
- Pretty Polly - B.F. Shelton
- Darling Cora - B.F. Shelton
- Called To the Foreign Field - Alfred G. Karnes
- I Am Bound For the Promised Land - Alfred G. Karnes
- Where We'll Never Grow Old - Alfred G. Karnes
- When They Ring the Golden Bells - Alfred G. Karnes
- To the Work - Alfred G. Karnes
- Train On the Island - J. P. Nester
- Black-Eyed Susie - J. P. Nester
- Johnny Goodwin - Bull Mountain Moonshiners

disc 3:
- Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow - The Carter Family
- Little Log Cabin By the Sea - The Carter Family
- The Poor Orphan Child - The Carter Family
- The Storms Are On the Ocean - The Carter Family
- Single Girl, Married Girl - The Carter Family
- The Wandering Boy - The Carter Family
- Remember Me, O Mighty One - Alcoa Quartet
- I'm Redeemed - Alcoa Quartet
- Henry Whitter's Fox Chase - Henry Whitter
- Rain Crow Bill - Henry Whitter
- Big Bend Gal - The Shelor Family
- Suzanna Gal - The Shelor Family
- Sandy River Belle [Take 1] - The Shelor Family (take)
- Sandy River Belle [Take 2] - The Shelor Family (take)
- Billy Grimes, the Rover - The Shelor Family
- The Newmarket Wreck - Mr. & Mrs. J.W. Baker
- On The Banks Of The Sunny Tennessee - Mr. & Mrs. J.W. Baker
- The Soldier's Sweetheart - Jimmie Rodgers
- Sleep Baby Sleep - Jimmie Rodgers
- The Longest Train I Ever Saw - The Tenneva Ramblers
- Sweet Heaven When I Die - The Tenneva Ramblers
- Miss 'Liza, Poor Gal - The Tenneva Ramblers
- Greasy String - West Virginia Coonhunters
- Your Blue Eyes Run Me Crazy - West Virginia Coonhunters
- Standing On the Promises - Tennessee Mountaineers
- Shall We Gather at the River - Tennessee Mountaineers

disc 4:
- My Name Is Ticklish Reuben - Smyth County Ramblers
- Way Down In Alabama - Smyth County Ramblers
- Do Not Wait 'Till I'm Laid 'Neath the Clay - Alfred G. Karnes
- The Days of My Childhood Plays - Alfred G. Karnes
- We Shall All Be Reunited - Alfred G. Karnes
- If the Light Has Gone Out In Your Soul - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers
- Went Up In the Clouds Of Heaven - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers
- I Know That Jesus Set Me Free - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers
- Shine On Me - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers
- Bright Tomorrow - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers
- A Little Talk With Jesus - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers
- I Cannot Be Your Sweetheart - Howard & Peak
- Three Black Sheep - Howard & Peak
- Good-night Darling - Clarence Greene
- The Broken-Hearted Lover - The Stoneman Family
- Angeline, The Baker - Uncle Eck Dunford
- Old Shoes and Leggin's - Uncle Eck Dunford
- We Parted By the Riverside - The Stoneman Family
- Down To Jordan and Be Saved
- There's a Light Lit Up In Galilee
- Going Up the Mountain After Liquor, Part 1 - The Stoneman Family
- Going Up the Mountain After Liquor, Part 2 - The Stoneman Family
- The Spanish Merchant's Daughter - The Stoneman Family
- Too Late - The Stoneman Family

disc 5:
- I'll Be Happy - Stamps Quartet
- Like the Rainbow - Stamps Quartet
- Because I Love Him - Stamps Quartet
- Come To the Savior - Stamps Quartet
- Do Your Best, Then Wear a Smile - Stamps Quartet
- We Shall Reach Home - Stamps Quartet
- My Mother Is Waiting For Me In Heaven Above - The Smith Brothers
- She Has Climbed the Golden Stair - The Smith Brothers
- We'll Sing On That Shore - Palmer Sisters
- Singing the Story of Grace - Palmer Sisters
- Help Me To Find The Way - Palmer Sisters
- He'll Be With Me - Palmer Sisters
- Brownie Blues - Tarter & Gay
- Unknown Blues - Tarter & Gay
- Where Is My Mamma? - Carolina Twins
- When You Go A'Courtin' - Carolina Twins
- I Sat Upon the River Bank - Carolina Twins
- New Orleans Is the Town I Like Best - Carolina Twins
- She Tells Me That I Am Sweet - Carolina Twins
- Mr. Brown, Here I Come - Carolina Twins
- I Truly Understand, You Love Another Man - Shortbuckle Roark & Family
- My Mother's Hands - Shortbuckle Roark & Family


5 CD box set
120 pp. hardcover book by Tony Russell & Ted Olson

Bear Family BCD-16094-5-CD (Germany 2011)

132012The Bristol Sessions 1927/1928
Country Music's Big Bang

disc 1:
- Don't Grieve After Me - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Quartet
- I Want To Go Where Jesus Is - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Quartet
- Old Time Corn Shuckin' Pt 1 - Blue Ridge Corn Shuckers
- Old Time Corn Shuckin' Pt 2 - Blue Ridge Corn Shuckers
- Walking In The Way With Jesus - Blind Alfred Reed
- The Wreck Of The Virginian - Blind Alfred Reed
- I Am Bound For The Promised Land - Alfred G. Karnes
- Where We'll Never Grow Old - Alfred G. Karnes
- Are You Washed In The Blood? - Ernest Stoneman & His Dixie Mountaineers
- Sweeping Through The Gates - Ernest Stoneman & His Dixie Mountaineers

- Pretty Polly - B.F Shelton
- Darling Cora - B.F. Shelton
- Standing On The Promises - Tennessee Mountaineers
- At The River - Tennessee Mountaineers
- The Longest Train I Ever Saw - Tenneva Ramblers
- Sweet Heaven When I Die - Tenneva Ramblers
- Greasy String - West Virginia Coon Hunters
- Your Blue Eyes Run Me Crazy - West Virginia Coon Hunters
- The Newmarket Wreck - Mr. & Mrs. J.W. Baker
- On The Banks Of The Sunny Tennessee - Mr. & Mrs. J.W. Baker
- Billy Grimes The Rover - Shelor Family
- Big Bend Gal - Shelor Family
- Henry Whitter's Fox Chase - Henry Whitter
- Rain Crow Bill - Henry Whitter

disc 2:
- Remember Me, O Mighty One - Alcoa Quartet
- I'm Redeeemed - Alcoa Quartet
- Mountaineer's Courtship - Stoneman / Frost
- The Whip-poor-will's Song - E. Dunford
- The Soldier's Poor Little Boy - Johnson Bros
- Just A Message From Carolina - Johnson Bros
- Do, Lord, Remember Me - Ernest Phipps & Holiness Quartet
- Old Ship Of Zion - Ernest Phipps & Holiness Quartet
- Pot Licker Blues - El Watson
- When They Ring The Golden Bells - Alfred G. Karnes
- To The Work - Alfred G. Karnes
- Skip To Ma Lou, My Darling - Uncle Eck Dunford
- Barney Mccoy - Uncle Eck Dunford
- I Mean To Live For Jesus - Blind Alfred Reed
- You Must Unload - Blind Alfred Reed
- Train On The Island - J. P. Nester
- Black-eyed Susie - J. P. Nester
- The Resurrection - Ernest Stoneman & Dixie Mountaineers
- I Am Resolved - Ernest Stoneman & Dixie Mountaineers
- Dying Girl's Farewell - E. Stoneman, E. K. Brewer, M. Mooney
- Tell Mother I Will Meet Her - E. Stoneman, E. K. Brewer, M. Mooney
- Suzanna Gal - Dad Blackard's Moonshiners
- Sandy River Belle - Dad Blackard's Moonshiners
- Johnny Goodwin - Bull Mountain Moonshiners
- Miss Liza, Poor Gal - Tenneva Ramblers

disc 3:
- Jesus Is Getting Us Ready For That Great Day - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Quartet
- Happy In Prison - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Quartet
- I Know My Name Is There - Stoneman's Dixie Mountaineers
- No More Good-byes - Stoneman's Dixie Mountaineers
- The Jealous Sweetheart - Johnson Brothers
- Two Brothers Are We (From East Tennessee) - Johnson Brothers
- What Will I Do, For My Money's All Gone - Uncle Eck Dunford

- Cold Penitentiary Blues - B.F. Shelton
- O Molly Dear - B.F. Shelton
- Called To The Foreign Field - Alfred G. Karnes
- Do Not Wait 'til I'm Laid Beneath The Clay - Alfred G. Karnes
- If The Light Has Gone Out In Your Soul - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers
- Bright Tomorrow - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers
- Days Of My Childhood Plays - Alfred G. Karnes
- We Shall All Be Reunited - Alfred G. Karnes
- I Truly Understand, You Love Another Man - Shortbuckle Roark & Family
- My Mother's Hands - Shortbuckle Roark & Family
- The Broken Hearted Lover - Stoneman Family
- We Parted By The Riverside - Stoneman Family
- Angeline The Baker - Uncle Eck Dunford
- Old Shoes And Leggin's - Uncle Eck Dunford
- Down To Jordan And Be Saved - Stoneman Family
- There's A Light Lit Up In Galilee - Stoneman Family
- My Name Is Ticklish Reuben - Smyth County Ramblers
- 'Way Down In Alabama - Smyth County Ramblers

disc 4:
- A Little Talk With Jesus - Ernest Phipps & His Congregation
- Went Up In The Clouds Of Heaven - Ernest Phipps & His Congregation
- I Know That Jesus Set Me Free - Ernest Phipps & His Congregation
- Shine On Me - Ernest Phipps & His Congregation
- Where Is My Mama - Carolina Twins
- When You Go A Courtin' - Carolina Twins
- I Sat Upon The River Bank - Carolina Twins
- Mr. Brown Here I Come - Carolina Twins
- Going Up The Mountain After Liquor Pt 1 - Stoneman Family
- Going Up The Mountain After Liquor Pt 2 - Stoneman Family
- The Spanish Merchant's Daughter - Stoneman Family
- Too Late - Stoneman Family
- New Orleans Is The Town I Like Best - Carolina Twins
- She Tells Me That I Am Sweet - Carolina Twins
- Goodnight, Darling - Clarence Greene
- Little Bunch Of Roses - Clarence Greene
- My Mother Is Waiting For Me In Heaven Above - Smith Brothers
- She Has Climbed The Golden Stairs - Smith Brothers
- I Cannot Be Your Sweetheart - Howard - Peak (The Blind Musicians)
- Three Black Sheep - Howard - Peak (The Blind Musicians)


4 CD set
notes by Pat Harrison

JSP JSPCD 77156 (UK 2012)

142012The Return of The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

disc 1:
Alex Hood & His Railroad Boys - L And N Rag
Hambone Willie Newburn - Roll And Tumble Blues
Appalachia Vagabond (Hayes Shepherd) - Hard For To Love
Washington (Bukka) White - The Panama Limited
Earl Johnson & His Dixie Entertainers - John Henry Blues
Geeshie Wiley - Last Kind Words Blues
Carter Brothers & Son - Old Jaw Bone

B.F. Shelton - Oh Molly Dear
Charley Patton - High Water Everywhere - Part 1
Ernest Stoneman & Kahle Brewer - Lonesome Road Blues
Ishman Bracey - Woman Woman Blues
Fiddling Powers & Family - Old Molly Hair
Ashley's Melody Men - Bath House Blues
Dennis McGee & Sady Courville - Mon Chere Bebe Creole
Willie Walker - Dupree Blues
Packie Dolan & His Boys - Irish Girl/Blue Breeches
Cartwright Brothers - Texas Ranger
L.O. Birkhead & A.E. Ward - Robinson County
Robert Wilkins - That's No Way To Get Along
Lewis Brothers - Bull At The Wagon
Karola Stocha & S. Bachleda - Koscieliska
Fruit Jar Guzzlers - Stack-O-Lee
Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar Drinkers - Sail Away Ladies


disc 2:
Mississippi Possum Hunters - The Last Shot Got Him
George Edgin's Corn Dodgers - My Ozark Mountain Home
Henry Thomas - Charmin Betsey
Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers - Milwaukee Blues
Eck Robertson & Family - Texas Wagoner
Joe Evans & Arthur McClain - Two White Horses
Leo Soileau & Mayuse Lafleur - Basile Waltz
Lottie Kimbrough - Rolling Log Blues
Luke Hignight & His Ozark Strutters - Fort Smith Breakdown
Carver Boys - Tim Brook
Blind Willie Johnson - Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed
Furry Lewis - Billy Lyons And Stack O'Lee
J.P. Nester & Norman Edmonds - Train On The Island
Tommy Johnson - Lonesome Home Blues
Orkiestra Majkuta - Wsciekla Polka
Lulu Jackson - Little Rosewood Casket
E. Mullaney & P. Stack - Maid In A Cherry Tree
Elder Golden P. Harris - I'll Lead A Christian Life
Fiddling Sam Long - Seneca Square Dance
Blind Blake - Sun To Sun Blues
Blue Ridge Mountain Singers - The Letter That Never Came
Charley Patton - Some These Days I'll Be Gone
Allison's Sacred Harp Singers - I'm A Long Time Traveling Away From Home


prod. & remastered by Richard Nevins
artwork by Drew Friedman

54-pp. booklet with stories and anecdotes of shellac collectors

Yazoo CD 2203 (US 9/2012)

Yazoo Records discography



Additional information appreciated !!!

 

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Tony Russell: Country Music Records - A Discography, 1921-1942 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 826
- Charles K. Wolfe & Ted Olson (ed.): The Bristol Sessions: Writings about the Big Bang of Country Music (Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies).- Jefferson, NC (McFarland & Co) 2005
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

thanks to Tony Russell and John Heneghan for additional info / label scan

 

 

 

 

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