Cheer up! my latest mix was uploaded today. Titled Folk In Hell, it’s a mixture of old 78’s from The Depression era onwards featuring songs of love and hope, loss, death and despair, I hope you dig it.
The Bently Boys : Down On Penny’s Farm
Cliff Carlisle : The Wreck Of Number 52
Bascom Lamar Lansford : I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground
The Caroliner Tar Heels : Got The Farmland Blues
Bob Miller : Ohio Prison Fire
Clarence Ashley : Naomi Wise
Blind Willie Johnson : John the Revelator
Ramblin’ Thomas : Poor Boy Blues
Floyd Ming & His Pep-Steppers : Indian War Whoop
Uncle Dave Macon : Way Down The Old Plank Road
The Memphis Jug Band : K.C. Moan
Frank Hutchison : Last Scene Of The Titanic
Williamson Brothers & Curry : Gonna Die with My Hammer In My Hand
Alabama Sacred Heart Singers : Rocky Road
Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers : Shine On Me
Elders McIntorch & Edwards : The Flood Of 1927
Bob Miller : The Crash Of The Akron
Nelstone’s Hawaiians : Fatal Flower Garden
Carolina Buddies : The Murder Of The Lawson Family
Norman Blake : You Are My Sunshine
I was just listening to one of @rexbrough ‘s Mixcloud offerings and had a listen to some of this.
Most enjoyable both of you.
thank you sir
Great stuff @Gardener. Gave it a listen while i was cooking supper.
The lyrics of one of the songs bore a great similarity to Lankum’s Go Dig My Grave.
http://www.rte.ie/laweb/ll/ll_t03a.html
Musically it was very different.