Field Recording Covers

Field Recording Covers

Field Recording Covers
Field Recording Covers

Coming up on our last live show of May, what better way but to dig just a little bit deeper into some of the field recordings of the first half of the 20th century that found popularity in the country, blues, and popular charts. Some of these songs had the ‘right’ rhythm or struck a chord with the message they sent. While most were traditional pieces by the time the musicologists had arrived with their primitive recording machines, others were original and told just the right story. We’ll hear Eric Clapton, Aaron Copland, B.B. King, and Tom Waits right alongside the originals done by Smith Casey, Gwen Foster, Belton Reese, and Ora Dell Graham.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Warner Williams With Jay Summerour Worried Life Blues Blues Highway Amazon
3Thomas "Jaybird" Jones Worried Life Blues Field Recordings, Vol. 3: Mississippi (1936-1942) Amazon
4David Edwards Worried Life Blues Library of Congress Alan Lomax Collection Amazon
5Eric Clapton & B.B. King Worried Life Blues Riding With The King Amazon
6Agustus "Track Horse" Haggerty Hattie Green Texas Field Recordings – 1934-1939 Amazon
7George Hamilton IV Abilene Classic Country Amazon
8Rouse Brothers My Family Circle Classic Field Recordings Amazon
9The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Will The Circle Be Unbroken Appalachian Stomp: Bluegrass Classics Amazon
10Ace Johnson w/L. W. Gooden Mama Don't Low No Swingin' Out In Here Field Recordings Vol. 6: Texas (1933-1958) Amazon
11Doc Watson Mama Don't Allow No Music Memories Amazon
12W. M. Stepp Bonapartes Retreat Country & Western, Vol.2 [Disc 1] Amazon
13Aaron Copland, London Symphony Orchestra & William Warfield Rodeo – Four Dance Episodes (Instrumental): IV. Hoedown Copland Conducts Copland (Expanded Edition) Amazon
14Dock Reed Down on Me Field Recordings, Vol. 4: Mississippi & Alabama (1934-1942) Amazon
15Big Brother & the Holding Company Down on Me Rock: Train Kept a Rollin' Disc 1 Amazon
16Ozella Jones Prisoner Blues Field Recordings, Volume 7 : Florida Amazon
17Fiona Apple Criminal Tidal Amazon
18Smith Casey East Texas Rag Texas Field Recordings – 1934-1939 Amazon
19Tom Waits The Soul Of A Man God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson Amazon
20Johnnie Barfield Everybody's Tryin' To Be My Baby Classic Field Recordings Amazon
21Carl Perkins Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby Dixie Fried Amazon
22Gwen Foster How Many Biscuits Can I Eat? Classic Field Recordings Amazon
23Mac Wiseman How Many Biscuits Can You Eat Sings Old Time Country Favorites Amazon
24Belton Reese Bile Dem Cabbages Down Field Recordings – Vol 9 – Georgia, SC, NC,Virginia, Kentucky (1924-39) Amazon
25Doc Watson Boil Them Cabbage Down Milestones Amazon
26Smith Casey West Texas Blues Texas Field Recordings – 1934-1939 Amazon
27John Jackson West Texas Blues Front Porch Blues Amazon
28Ora Dell Graham Shortenin' Bread Field Recordings, Vol. 3: Mississippi (1936-1942) Amazon
29Lee Dorsey Shortnin' Bread The Ep Collection…Plus Amazon
30John Dudley Cool Drink Of Water Blues Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings: 19471959 Amazon
31Vassar Clements Cool Drink of Water Livin' with the Blues Amazon
32Capitol City Laundry Quartet Ezekiel Saw The Wheel Field Recordings Vol. 12: Virginia & South Carolina (1936-1940) Amazon
33Louis Armstrong Ezekiel Saw De Wheel Louis And The Good Book Amazon
34Doyle Lawson/Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Ezekiel Saw the Wheel School of Bluegrass Disc 1 Amazon
35James Shorty, Viola James, And Congregation Jesus On The Main Line Sounds of the South [Disc 3] – Negro Church Music & White Spirituals Amazon
36Ry Cooder Jesus On The Mainline Paradise And Lunch (Remaster 2013) Amazon