Hillbilly Special
11:00am, 3-5-2016
<< Mr. Ghost Goes To Town
In the '20s and '30s, the growing recorded music industry started putting out what they called "hillbilly" records made by a wide range of string bands, balladeers, blue yodelers and more. Here's a little cross-section of what that sounded like.
- 11:00am Mr. Ghost Goes to To Town by Zeke Manners & His Swing Billies on Park Avenue Hillbillies And West End Cowboys (Country Novelty Songs) (Collectors Choice)
- 11:03am Way Down the Old Plank Road by Uncle Dave Macon on Anthology of American Folk Music (Folkways )
- 11:05am My Rough and Rowdy Ways by Bill Cox on My Rough and Rowdy Ways (Yazoo )
- 11:08am Tell it To Me by The Grant Brothers on Good for What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows 1926-1937 (Old Hat)
- 11:11am Banjo Pickin' Girl by Coon Creek Girls on Banjo Pickin' Girl (Rounder)
- 11:14am Bow Wow Blues by The Allen Brothers on Good for What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows 1926-1937 (Old Hat)
- 11:19am Ramblin' Blues by Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers on White Country Blues (Columbia )
- 11:22am Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss by Frank Blevins & His Tar Heel Rattlers on Times Ain't Like They Used to Be (Yazoo )
- 11:25am Brown Skin Girl Down the Lane by The Massey Family on Times Ain't Like They Used to Be Vol. 2 (Yazoo )
- 11:28am Sail Away Ladies by Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar Guzzlers on Times Ain't Like They Used to Be Vol. 2 (Yazoo)
- 11:31am My Father Died a Drunkard by Darby & Tarlton on MP3 (Columbia )
- 11:34am Sleepy Desert by Wilmer Watts & His Lonely Eagles on Times Ain't Like They Used to Be Vol. 3 (Yazoo)
- 11:40am My Bones Gonna Rise Again by Dave and Howard on Black and White Hillbilly Music (Trikont )
- 11:43am Just Because by Nelstone's Hawaiians on Black & White Hillbilly Music (Trikont)
- 11:46am Dirty Hangover Blues by W. Lee O'Daniel & His Hillbilly Boys on White Country Blues (Columbia )
- 11:48am Blue Yodel No. 2 (My Lovin' Gal Lucille) by The Rhythm Wreckers on MP3 (Columbia-Lucky )
- 11:51am New Step it Up and Go by Maddox Brothers and Rose on America's Most Colorful Hillbilly Band (Arhoolie )
- 11:55am Cocaine by Dick Justice on My Rough and Rowdy Ways (Yazoo )
- 11:57am The Women Wear No Clothes at All by Fiddlin Bob Larkin on Wait for Me (East River )
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