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