Songs that highlight the states below the ‘line’ of intransigence. Portions are better known as Dixie, others (like Florida and Texas) appear as appendages or after-market expanses. The music this evening will explore songs of Louisiana from Doug Kershaw, Texas from Asleep at the Wheel, Alabama from Mance Lipscomb, and West Virginia featuring Louis Jordan. There’s a whole lot more including Taj Mahal, Bill Kirchen, The Louvin Brothers and Pokey LaFarge; all on a journey through a collection of states that two surveyors by the name of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, in an attempt to resolve a dispute, attached their names to in the late 18th century.
No.
1
Artist
Title
Album
Buy
2
Jimmie Rodgers
Somewhere Down Below The Mason Dixon Line
Recordings 1927 – 1933 [Disc 5]
3
Tom Darby & Jimmie Tarlton
Down In Florida On A Hog
Darby & Tarlton – Disc A (Atlanta 1927-29)
4
Muddy Waters
Deep Down In Florida #2
King Bee
5
Claire Lynch
My Florida Sunshine
Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration: A Classic Bluegrass Tribute Disc 1
6
The Swe-Danes
Georgia Camp Meeting
New Discgems From Warner Brothers
7
Dave Van Ronk
Georgia Camp Meeting
Dave Van Ronk And The Ragtime Jug Stompers
8
Alex Campbell, Ola Belle Reed, Burl Kilby
Bringing in the Georgia Mail
Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line
9
Curley Williams & His Georgia Peach Pickers
Georgia Boogie
Travellin' Boogie
10
Guy Clark
Virginia's Real
Texas Cookin'
11
The Carter Family
Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia
The Carter Family 1927 – 1934 [Disc 3]
12
Al Bowlly
My Sweet Virginia
Just A Bowl Of Cherries
13
Ethel Waters
I'm Coming Virginia
On Stage And Screen 1925 – 1940
14
Hazel Dickens
West Virginia, My Home
Hand-Picked: 25 Years Of Bluegrass On Rounder Records [Disc 1]
15
Louis Jordan
Salt Pork, West Virginia
The Chronological Louis Jordan 1945-1946
16
Dr. Horse
South Poke West Virginia
Harlem Rock N' Blues
17
Mance Lipscomb
Alabama Bound
Ash Grove 12/6/1964
18
Evan Marshall
The Alabama Jubilee
Mandolin Magic
19
The Louvin Brothers
Alabama
Hand-Picked
20
Neil Young/Stray Gators
Alabama
Harvest
21
Jimmie Driftwood
Arkansas Traveler
Americana, Vol. 1
22
Carolina Cotton
Three Miles South Of Cash (In Arkansas)
Oxford American 11th Edition Southern Music CD [Disc 2, "Arkansas Masters"]
23
Bill Kirchen
Arkansas Diamond (Album)
Word To The Wise
24
Taj Mahal
Texas Woman Blues
The Essential [Disc 1]
25
Asleep at the Wheel
Miles and Miles of Texas
The Very Best of Asleep at the Wheel Since 1970
26
Tommy Duncan
Texas Moon
Texas Moon
27
Tony Rice
He Rode All the Way to Texas
Night Flyer: The Singer Songwriter Collection
28
Waylon Jennings
Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)
The Essential Waylon Jennings [2007] Disc 2
29
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
Going Back To Louisiana
Doctors Professors Kings & Queens: Box New Orleans