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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Bristol Sessions Writings About the Big Bang of Country Music by Ted Olson Documentary - Further Reading. If you would like to explore some of the subjects featured in Folk America further, the following is a list of books that the producers consulted while making the series. In Search of the Blues by Marybeth Hamilton. Country Music Originals: The Legends and the Lost by Tony Russell. Blacks White and Blues by Tony Russell. When We Were Good: The Folk Revival by Robert Cantwell. Great Day Coming by R Serge Denisoff. Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues by Elijah Wald. Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone: The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music by Mark Zwonitzer and Charles Hirshberg. Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes by Greil Marcus. Positively 4th Street by David Hajdu. A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the 60s by Suze Rotolo. Folk Music USA: The Changing Voice of Protest by Ronald D Lankford, Jnr. Josh White Society Blues by Elijah Wald. Lead Belly: A Life In Pictures ed. Tiny Robinson and John Reynolds. Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People by Alan Lomax, Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. Woody Guthrie: A Life by Joe Klein. The Bristol Sessions: Writings About the Big Bang of Country Music by Charles K. Wolfe and Ted Olson. The Bristol Sessions: Writings About the Big Bang of Country Music by Ted Olson. Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog. Note: Contents data are machine generated based on pre-publication provided by the publisher. Contents may have variations from the printed book or be incomplete or contain other coding. Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Country music -- History and criticism. Sound recordings -- Tennessee -- Bristol. VARIOUS 'We Shall All Be Reunited - Revisiting The Bristol Sessions 1927-1928' BCD-17592-CD. ‘We Shall All Be Reunited’ showcases on a mid-price single-CD 26 memorable and varied recordings from the late 1920s Bristol sessions by a range of Appalachian musicians. The recordings were painstakingly remastered in 2020 by sound engineer Marcus Heumann. The album features an evocative 44-page insert booklet designed by Bear Family art director Mychael Gerstenberger. New liner notes written by Ted Olson in which the 1927 sessions are reassessed based on recent scholarly research and discussion. The liner notes explore “the rest of the story”- the related cultural occurrences all-too-often ignored or marginalized. This CD continues the series of Bear Family’s mid-priced releases exploring East Tennessee’s influential 1920s-era location recording sessions. Follow-up album to the Independent Music Award-winning 2019 single-CD ‘Tell It To Me: Revisiting The Johnson City Sessions, 1928-1929’ ( (BCD17591). ‘We Shall All Be Reunited: Revisiting The Bristol Sessions, 1927-1928’ casts new light on an old story - that of the 1927 Bristol sessions. Conducted by Victor Records A&R producer Ralph Peer, this seminal event from the early years of commercial recording in the 1980s was nicknamed ’’the Big Bang of Country Music,’’ while the city in which the event occurred - Bristol, Tennessee/Virginia - was officially dubbed “the Birthplace of Country Music.” Featuring 15 key recordings made in Bristol during late July and early August 1927 - including first-ever recordings by the now-legendary Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers as well as recordings by several important early country musicians, including Ernest Stoneman, Henry Whitter, Blind Alfred Reed, and others – ‘We Shall All Be Reunited’ revisits and reinterprets that 1927 event. To provide a holistic portrayal of Peer’s recording work in Bristol, this album includes 11 stand-out selections - including several classic recordings of old-time and gospel music by such musicians as Uncle Eck Dunford, Ernest Phipps, and Alfred Karnes - from Peer’s overlooked but equally worthy October and November 1928 recordings in Bristol. The album was produced by Ted Olson (producer of ‘The Bristol Sessions, 1927-1928: The Big Bang of Country Music’, Bear Family Records’ Grammy-nominated 2011 boxed set), ‘We Shall All Be Reunited’ features new liner notes written by Olson in which the 1927 sessions are reassessed based on recent scholarly research and discussion. The liner notes recount what happened in Bristol, who participated in the sessions, and why those recordings were historically significant, but also how that event was romanticized and distorted by myth, hyperbole, and hype. To contextualize the 1927 Bristol sessions the liner notes for ‘We Shall All Be Reunited’ explore ’’the rest of the story’’—the related cultural occurrences all-too-often ignored or marginalized during mainstream public discussions about the Bristol sessions. In his liner notes, Ted Olson tells the real story of the Bristol sessions - a story that proves to be much more interesting than that told in the popular ‘Big Bang’/’Birthplace’ myth. 01 Sweeping Through The Gates Ernest V Stoneman & His Dixie Mountaineers 02 The Wreck Of The Virginian (Take 2) Blind Alfred Reed 03 Narrow Gauge Blues El Watson 04 The Soldier's Poor Little Boy Johnson Brothers With Tennessee Wildcats 05 Oh Molly Dear BF Shelton 06 Black-Eyed Susie JP Nester 07 Johnny Goodwin Bull Mountain Moonshiners 08 The Poor Orphan Child The Carter Family 09 I'm Redeemed Alcoa Quartet 10 Rain Crow Bill Henry Whitter 11 Susanna Gal Dad Blackard's Moonshiners 12 Sleep Baby Sleep Jimmie Rodgers 13 The Longest Train I Ever Saw Tenneva Ramblers 14 Your Blue Eyes Run Me Crazy West Virginia Coon Hunters 15 Standing On The Promises Tennessee Mountaineers 16 My Name Is Ticklish Reuben Smyth County Ramblers 17 Shine On Me Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers 18 I Cannot Be Your Sweetheart Howard – Peak (The Blind Musicians) 19 Little Bunch Of Roses Clarence Greene 20 Old Shoes And Leggin's Uncle Eck Dunford 21 My Mother Is Waiting For Me In Heaven Above Smith Brothers 22 We'll Sing On That Shore The Palmer Sisters 23 Unknown Blues Tarter & Gay 24 New Orleans Is The Town I Like Best Carolina Twins 25 I Truly Understand, You Love Another Man Shortbuckle Roark & Family 26 We Shall All Be Reunited Alfred G Karnes. 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Some of the country's finest folklorists take us through the backwoods and into the homes of such artists as fiddlers Clark Kessinger and U.S. Senator Robert Byrd, recording stars Lynn Davis and Molly O'Day, dulcimer master Russell Fluharty, National Heritage Fellowship recipient Melvin Wine, bluesman Nat Reese, and banjoist Sylvia O'Brien. The most complete survey to date of the vibrant strands of this music and its colorful practitioners, "Mountains of Music" delineates a unique culture where music and music making are part of an ancient and treasured heritage. The sly humor, strong faith, clear regional identity, and musical convictions of these performers draw the reader into families and communities bound by music from one generation to another. For devotees as well as newcomers to this infectiously joyous and heartfelt music, "Mountains of Music" captures the strength of tradition and the spontaneous power of living artistry. The Central Blue Ridge, taking in the mountainous regions of northwestern North Carolina and southwestern Virginia, is well known for its musical traditions. Long recognized as one of the richest repositories of folksong in the United States, the Central Blue Ridge has also been a prolific source of commercial recording, starting in 1923 with Henry Whitter�s �hillbilly� music and continuing into the 21st century with such chart- topping acts as James King, Ronnie Bowman and Doc Watson. Unrivaled in tradition, unequaled in acclaim and unprecedented in influence, the Central Blue Ridge can claim to have contributed to the musical landscape of Americana as much as or more than any other region in the United States. This reference work�part of McFarland�s continuing series of Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies�provides complete biographical and discographical information on more than 75 traditional recording (major commercial label) artists who are natives of or lived mostly in the northwestern North Carolina counties of Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Surry, Watauga and Wilkes, and the southwestern Virginia counties of Carroll and Grayson.