![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | God Bless My Country - Marty McVeigh
6- and 12-string acoustics dual blues riffs. Lyrics acknowledge the globalization of national pride.
Keywords: Acoustic Country Blues
Downloads: 4,153
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| Black Girl James Curran - James Curran
The words are from the Leadbelly song "Where Did You Sleep Last Night".Check it out on this site.Music written and performed by James Curran.
Source: Fostex X15>Soundblaster>MP3
Keywords: Acoustic Country Blues
Downloads: 1,007
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| Cocaine Lil and Morphine Sue James Curran - James Curran
Anonymous words with music composed and performed by James Curran.
Source: Sony Walkman Pro>Soundblaster>MP3
Keywords: Acoustic Country Blues
Downloads: 1,169
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| My Baby's So Mean To Me James Curran - James Curran
Old timey happy song for guitar and voice.
Source: Micrologic>MP3
Keywords: Acoustic Country Blues
Downloads: 2,588
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| Open D Blues James Curran - James Curran
Steel string guitar playing improvised blues.Recorded Glasgow,Scotland in 2002.
Source: Micrologic>MP3
Keywords: Acoustic Country Blues
Downloads: 936
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| Too Long Far Away - Marty McVeigh
Acoustic 12-string with melancholy lyrics.
Keywords: Acoustic Country Blues
Downloads: 990
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| Geeshie Wiley & Elvie Thomas-Pick Poor Robin Clean - Geeshie Wiley & Elvie Thomas
Recorded circa March 1931 in Grafton, Wisconsin. Geeshie Wiley on vocals and lead guitar, Elvie Thomas on second guitar. This bouncy, raggy tune opens with the chilling lines: "I picked poor robin clean, picked poor robin clean Picked his head, picked his feet, would have picked his body but it wasn't fit to eat."
Source: 78rpm>CD>MP3
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Ragtime; Acoustic Country Blues; 78rpm
Average rating:  (1 review) |
| Geeshie Wiley-Last Kind Words - Geeshie Wiley
Recorded circa March 1930 in Grafton, Wisconsin. Don Kent has described "Last Kind Words" as "one of the most imginatively constructed guitar arrangments of its era...."
Source: 78rpm>CD>MP3
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Acoustic Country Blues; Delta Blues; 78rpm
Downloads: 12,567
Average rating: (8 reviews) |
| Mississippi John Hurt-Avalon Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
Recorded on December 21, 1928 in New York City. After this recording session Hurt went back home to his home in Northwestern Mississippi and did not record again until over 30 years later. He "disappeared" until Tom Hoskins "re-discovered" him earning $28 a month on a cattle farm in the early sixties. The clue to finding Hurt was in this tune: "Avalon's my home town, always on my mind." After his "re-discovery," Hurt became popular with the folkie crowd in the sixties.
Source: 78RPM>CD>MP3
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Acoustic Country Blues; 78rpm
Downloads: 12,782
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Son House-My Black Mama Part One - Son House
Recorded in June 1930 in Grafton, Wisconsin. These recording sessions included Charley Patton, Willie Brown and Louise Johnson who all drove up to Wisconsin together from Mississippi. This tune made a deep impression on a young Robert Johnson, who was reportedly mentored somewhat by House; Johnson later recorded this tune as "Walkin' Blues." John Lee Hooker likewise did his own version in 1949 called "Burnin' Hell," based on the lines from the third verse: "Yeah, ain't no heaven, ain't no burnin...
Source: 78rpm>CD>MP3
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Acoustic Country Blues; Delta Blues; 78rpm
Downloads: 23,030
Average rating: (5 reviews) |
| Sleepy John Estes-Black Mattie Blues - Sleepy John Estes
Recorded on October 2, 1929. John Estes received the nickname "Sleepy" as a result of a baseball accident he received as a child which caused him to lose the sight of his right eye. In addition to his blues style, Estes also recorded jug band tunes with the likes of Jab Jones and, most importantly, mandolinist Yank Rachell. Rachell, who had a life long musical relationship with Estes, abundantly demonstrates that the blues is not relegated exclusively to guitar playing.
Source: 78RPM>CD>MP3
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Acoustic Country Blues; 78rpm
Downloads: 6,667
Average rating:  (3 reviews) |
| Blind Willie Johnson-If I Had My Way I'd Tear The Building Down - Blind Willie Johnson
Recorded on December 3, 1927 in Dallas, Texas. This was Johnson's first recording session. This tune is the story of Samson and Delilah. It is the flip side to "Mother's Children Have A Hard Time." Rev. Gary Davis popularized this tune in the early sixties during the Great Folk Scare.
Source: 78rpm>CD>MP3
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Gospel; Acoustic Country Blues; Christian; 78rpm
Downloads: 24,502
Average rating: (8 reviews) |
| Charley Patton-A Spoonful Blues - Charley Patton
This was recorded on June 14, 1929 in Richmond, Indiana. Dick Spottswood in "Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton" describes it as "[p]robably a cocaine song with ambiguous sexual overtones...."
Source: 78rpm>CD>MP3
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Acoustic Country Blues; Delta Blues; 78rpm
Downloads: 15,851
Average rating: (4 reviews) |
| Mississippi John Hurt-Louis Collins - Mississippi John Hurt
Recorded on December 21, 1928 in New York City. Hurt said, when asked about this sweet murder ballad, that he "made it up from hearing people talk. He was a great man, I know that, and he was killed by two men named Bob and Louis. I got enough of the story to write me a song."
Source: 78RPM>CD>MP3
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Ballad; Blues; Acoustic Country Blues; 78rpm
Downloads: 16,183
Average rating: (4 reviews) |
| Garfield Akers & Joe Calicott-Cottonfield Blues Part Two - Garfield Akers & Joe Calicott
See entry for "Cottonfield Blues Part One." Because of the limited capacity of the discs which were used for recording in this era, tunes that exceeded a little over three minutes often were continued on the flip side of a 78rpm record.
Source: 78rpm>CD>MP3
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Acoustic Country Blues; Delta Blues; 78rpm
Downloads: 5,374
Average rating: (2 reviews) |
| Garfield Akers & Joe Calicott-Cottonfield Blues Part One - Garfield Akers & Joe Calicott
Recorded circa September 23, 1929. Garfield Akers on vocals and lead guitar, Joe Calicott on second guitar. Don Kent claims that "[o]nly a handful of guitar duets in all blues match the incredible drive, intricate rhythms and ferocious intensity" of this recording. See also "Cottonfield Blues Part Two."
Source: 78rpm>CD>MP3
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Acoustic Country Blues; Delta Blues; 78rpm
Downloads: 6,506
Average rating: (2 reviews) |
| Mississippi John Hurt-Nobody's Dirty Business - Mississippi John Hurt
Recorded on february 14, 1928 in Memphis. It was on the strength of this recording, and it's flip side, "Frankie," that Hurt was invited to go to New York to attend his only other recording session.
Source: 78RPM>CD>MP3
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Acoustic Country Blues; 78rpm
Downloads: 15,353
Average rating:  (1 review) |
| Victoria Spivey-Dope Head Blues - Victoria Spivey
Recorded on October 28, 1927 in New York City with blues great Lonnie Johnson on guitar. This tune is about the ravages and paranoia that accompanies cocaine addiction with the chilling lyrics: "Got double pneumonia and still I think I got the best health." Spivey was one of the great blues jazz singers of the twenties and thirties. She recorded with Louis Armstrong and King Oliver. She even had a part in King Vidor's "Hallelujah" in 1929, one of the first, if not the first, films with an all-bl...
Source: 78RPM>CD>MP3
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Acoustic Country Blues; 78rpm
Downloads: 11,800
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Frank Hutchison-K. C. Blues - Frank Hutchison
Recorded on July 9, 1929 in New York City. Charles K. Wolfe describes Hutchison as "[t]he first real white bluesman to record." Frank Hutchison learned his craft from black miners in the Logan County, West Virginia area.
Source: 78rpm>CD>MP3
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Country; Acoustic Country Blues; 78rpm
Downloads: 6,230
Average rating: (4 reviews) |
| Henry Thomas-Bob McKinney - Henry Thomas
Recorded on October 5, 1927. Henry Thomas is one of the more elusive figures of old-time music and his music is difficult to categorize being neither entirely country blues nor old-time country. According to Stephen Calt, "Bob McKinney" is a rag tune, featuring bits and pieces of popular early 20th -century tunes.
Source: 78rpm>CD>MP3
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Country; Ragtime; Acoustic Country Blues; 78rpm
Downloads: 4,367
Average rating: (2 reviews) |
| Bertha Lee w. Charley Patton-Mind Reader Blues - Bertha Lee w. Charley Patton
Recorded on January 31, 1934 in New York City. This tune, along with "Yellow Bee," was recorded at Patton's last recording session. He died two months later. Bertha Lee was Patton's common-law wife at the time. Lee appears to be lecturing Patton, who was an inveterate womanizer, with her sultry voice. In the fourth verse Lee sings: "I remember a day when I were livin' at Lula town, I remember a day when I were livin' at Lula town, my man did so many wrong things 'til I had to leave the town." Le...
Source: 78RPM>CD>MP3
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Acoustic Country Blues; Delta Blues; 78rpm
Downloads: 11,393
Average rating: (4 reviews) |
| Blind Willie Johnson-Mother's Children Have A Hard Time - Blind Willie Johnson
Recorded on December 3, 1927 in Dallas, Texas. The title of this tune was a garbled translation of someone trying to decipher Johnson's singing, the title should have been "Motherless Children Have A Hard Time." Indeed, it is reputed that Johnson was blinded as a child by his stepmother in a fit of anger after she was discovered in bed with another man by Johnson's father, who then beat her.
Source: 78rpm>CD>MP3
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Gospel; Acoustic Country Blues; Christian; 78rpm
Downloads: 14,572
Average rating: (2 reviews) |
| The Nugrape Twins-I Got Your Ice Cold Nugrape - The Nugrape Twins
Recorded on November 2, 1926. Not much is known about the Nugrape Twins. Based on their few recordings, they might have been a gospel group. This recording may have been a plug for Nugrape, a soda pop popular in the South similar to Orange Crush. Only different.
Source: 78RPM>CD>MP3
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Acoustic Country Blues; 78rpm
Downloads: 4,778
Average rating: (0 review) |
| Charley Patton-Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues - Charley Patton
Recorded on June 14, 1929 in Richmond, Indiana. This recording was originally released credited to The Masked Marvel. If listeners could guess that it was Charley Patton, they would win a free record.
Source: 78rpm>CD>MP3
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Acoustic Country Blues; Delta Blues; 78rpm
Downloads: 9,271
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Geeshie Wiley-Skinny Legs Blues - Geeshie Wiley
Recorded circa March 1930 in Grafton, Wisconsin. Don Kent says: "If Geeshie Wiley did not exist, she could not be invented: her scope and creativity dwarfs most blues artists. She seems to represent the moment when black secular music was coalescing into blues."
Source: 78rpm>CD>MP3
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Acoustic Country Blues; Delta Blues; 78rpm
Downloads: 10,066
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Ernest Rodgers-Willie The Chimney Sweeper - Ernest Rodgers
Recorded in 1927. This same tune was recorded at about the same time by Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon, well known at the time for his tunes full of innuendo (not to mention his parallel career as a female impersonator), as "Willie The Weeper." These tunes may be the earliest known "reefer" tunes in American popular culture (with the exception of "La Cucaracha"). The references to "smoking pills" in these "Willie" tunes isn't that strange when it is taken into consideration that drug vernacular at th...
Source: 78RPM>CD>MP3
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Country; Acoustic Country Blues; 78rpm
Downloads: 4,820
Average rating: (2 reviews) |
| Bertha Lee w. Charley Patton-Yellow Bee - Bertha Lee w. Charley Patton
Recorded on January 31, 1934 in New York City. This tune was originally made popular by Memphis Minnie. The tune is clearly sexual in nature, and from Patton's asides during the tune, it appears that Patton is certainly enjoying Lee's come on. It is thought that Patton and Lee recorded several other tunes during this last recording session. See the notes to "Mind Reader Blues." However, if they did, they are lost and haven't been heard...by anyone still alive that is...
Source: 78RPM>CD>MP3
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Acoustic Country Blues; Delta Blues; 78rpm
Downloads: 7,084
Average rating: (2 reviews) |
| Tommy Johnson-Canned Heat Blues - Tommy Johnson
Recorded on August 31, 1928 in Memphis, Tennessee. Tommy Johnson was a contemporary of Charlie Patton and it is believed that he, along with other blues musicians from the Mississippi Delta area, exchanged ideas and tunes with Patton. "Canned Heat" referred to any one of a number of concoctions based on alcohol found in shoe polish, cooking fuel, etc., which it is believed Johnson had a liking for.
Source: 78rpm>CD>MP3
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Acoustic Country Blues; Delta Blues; 78rpm
Downloads: 15,325
Average rating: (2 reviews) |
| Bob Powell - White Fence - Bob Powell
Recorded in room 417 of the American Hotel in downtown Los Angeles by Bob Powell on a Gateway Solo 1150 laptop with a Labtec AM-232 microphone in the year 2002.
Source: Gateway Solo 1150
Keywords: Acoustic; Alternative; Blues; Folklore; Indie; Soundtrack; Poetry; Acoustic Country Blues; Minimalism; Dark Ambient; Hillbilly Gothic
Average rating:  (1 review) |
| Clarence Ashley-My Sweet Farm Girl - Clarence Ashley
Recorded on December 1, 1931 in New York City. Ashley plays guitar and sings, with Gwen Foster on guitar and harmonica. The sexual connotations are rather obvious.
Source: 78rpm>CD>MP3
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Country; Old-Time Appalachian; Acoustic Country Blues; 78rpm
Downloads: 10,982
Average rating: (4 reviews) |
| Dock Boggs-Country Blues - Dock Boggs
Recorded in 1927 in New York City. Jon Pankake wrote "[t]he haunted dissonance of Boggs' banjo playing and the harsh, overpowering emotion of his singing together with the bleakness of the vision expressed in his songs caused me to rethink my notion of 'folk music,' which hitherto I had associated with Pete Seeger's optimism and cheerful, bouncing banjo." This tune belongs to the same family of so-called blues ballads as "Hustling Gamblers" and "Darling Cory."
Source: 78rpm>CD>MP3
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Ballad; Blues; Old-Time Appalachian; Acoustic Country Blues; Banjo Tune; 78rpm
Downloads: 11,526
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Dock Boggs-Danville Girl - Dock Boggs
Recorded in 1927 in New York City. This tune is part of a group of tunes that includes "Wild And Reckless Hobo." There is something obsessive about this tune: a married man lusts after a girl he sees on the train platform.
Source: 78rpm>CD>MP3
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Old-Time Appalachian; Acoustic Country Blues; Banjo Tune; 78rpm
Downloads: 5,300
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Dock Boggs-Pretty Polly - Dock Boggs
Recorded in 1927 in New York City. Compare this arrangement to B. F. Shelton's version.
Source: 78rpm>CD>MP3
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Ballad; Blues; Old-Time Appalachian; Acoustic Country Blues; Banjo Tune; 78rpm
Downloads: 9,579
Average rating: (2 reviews) |
| Bob Powell - Leftover Noodles - Bob Powell
Leftover Noodles is a selection of songs released independently from Part 3 of Bob Powell Anthology. Mastered by Bob Powell at Creative Crayon, Santa Clarita, California in the year 2002. All songs produced, written, arranged, recorded & mixed by Bob Powell. Recorded on a Pioneer 1/4" 2-track, Fostex x-15 4-track, Sony TCS-580V & various portable cassette recorders, Tascam 58 1/2" 8-track, Pro Tools, Cakewalk, Microsoft Sound Recorder, Acid Pro & Wave Lab...
Source: Analog Tape>DAT>WAV>Flac
Keywords: Music; A Cappella; Acoustic; Alternative; Blues; Cult; Folk; Folklore; Indie; Pop-Folk; Rock & Roll; Acoustic Country Blues; Acid Folk; United States of America; weird; Hillbilly Gothic
Downloads: 6,080
Average rating: (3 reviews) |
| Bob Powell Anthology - Bob Powell
Dedicated to the open source community. Bob Powell Anthology is a collection of recordings by Bob Powell spanning over a 25 year period. Beginning in 1975 with "Mississippi Mud" and ending in 2001 with "A Day at the Races with I Claudius Rip Off Number One". Mastered by Tom Grimley and Bob Powell in the years 2002-2003. There is no actual chronological order to the songs. They are merely arranged to paint a landscape of musical folklore...
Source: See liner notes.
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Alternative; Ballad; Blues; Country; Cult; Folk; Folklore; Humour; Indie; Jazz; Psychedelic; Punk; Rock; Rock & Roll; Soundtrack; Acoustic Country Blues; Minimalism; Movie Music; Acid Folk; Beyond Classification; United States of America; Album Release; Modern American Prose and Poetry; New American Poetry; 20th century poetry; lyric poetry; uneasy listening; Weirdomusic; Death Industrial; Hillbilly Gothic
Downloads: 24,458
Average rating:  (9 reviews) |
