Bristol Sessions 1927-28-Big Bang Of Country Music Bristol Sessions 1927-28-Big Bang Of Country Music CD

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contains newly researched essays on the background to the sessions and on the individual artists, with many rare and unpublished photographs.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.

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 25. The Jealous Sweetheart [Take 1] [Take] 26. The Jealous Sweetheart [Take 2] [Take] 27. A Passing Policeman 28. Just a Message from Carolina 29. The Wreck of the Virginian [Take 1] [Take] 30. The Wreck of the Virginian [Take 2] [Take] 31. I Mean to Live for Jesus 32. You Must Unload 33. Walking in the Way with Jesus [Take 1] [Take] 34. Walking in the Way with Jesus [Take 2] [Take] 35. Two Brothers Are We 36. The Soldier's Poor Little Boy 37. I Want to See My Mother (Ten Thousand Miles a 38. Pot Liquor Blues 39. Narrow Gauge Blues 40. Cold Penitentiary Blues 41. Oh Molly Dear 42. Pretty Polly 43. Darling Cora 44. Called to the Foreign Field 45. I Am Bound for the Promised Land 46. Where We'll Never Grow Old 47. When They Ring the Golden Bells 48. To the Work 49. Train on the Island 50. Black-Eyed Susie 51. Johnny Goodwin 52. Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow 53. Little Log Cabin By the Sea 54. The Poor Orphan Child 55. The Storms Are on the Ocean 56. Single Girl, Married Girl 57. The Wandering Boy 58. Remember Me, O Mighty One 59. I'm Redeemed 60. Henry Whitter's Fox Chase 61. Rain Crow Bill 62. Big Bend Gal 63. Suzanna Gal 64. Sandy River Belle [Take 1] [Take] 65. Sandy River Belle [Take 2] [Take] 66. Billy Grimes, the Rover 67. The Newmarket Wreck 68. On the Banks of the Sunny Tennessee 69. The Soldier S Sweetheart 70. Sleep Baby Sleep 71. The Longest Train I Ever Saw 72. Sweet Heaven When I Die 73. Miss Liza, Poor Gal 74. Greasy String 75. Your Blue Eyes Run Me Crazy 76. Standing on the Promises 77. Shall We Gather at the River 78. My Name Is Ticklish Reuben 79. Way Down in Alabama 80. Do Not Wait 'Till I'm Laid 'Neath the Clay 81. The Days of My Childhood Plays 82. We Shall All Be Reunited 83. If the Light Has Gone Out in Your Soul 84. Went Up in the Clouds of Heaven 85. I Know That Jesus Set Me Free 86. Shine on Me 87. Bright Tomorrow 88. A Little Talk with Jesus 89. I Cannot Be Your Sweetheart 90. Three Black Sheep 91. Good-Night Darling 92. The Broken-Hearted Lover 93. Angeline, the Baker 94. Old Shoes and Leggin's 95. We Parted By the Riverside 96. Down to Jordan and Be Saved 97. There's a Light Lit Up in Galilee 98. Going Up the Mountain After Liquor, Part 1 99. Going Up the Mountain After Liquor, Part 2 100. The Spanish Merchant's Daughter 101. Too Late 102. I'll Be Happy 103. Like the Rainbow 104. Because I Love Him 105. Come to the Savior 106. Do Your Best, Then Wear a Smile 107. We Shall Reach Home 108. My Mother Is Waiting for Me in Heaven Above 109. She Has Climbed the Golden Stair 110. We LL Sing on That Shore 111. Singing the Story of Grace 112. Help Me to Find the Way 113. He LL Be with Me 114. Brownie Blues 115. Unknown Blues 116. Where Is My Mamma? 117. When You Go a Courtin' 118. I Sat Upon the River Bank 119. New Orleans Is the Town I Like Best 120. She Tells Me That I Am Sweet 121. Mr. Brown, Here I Come 122. I Truly Understand, You Love Another Man 123. My Mother's Hands