NEWSLETTER #276 COUNTY SALES P.O. Box 191 January- Februrary 2006 Floyd,VA 24091 www.countysales.com PHONE ORDERS: (540) 745-2001 FAX ORDERS: (540) 745-2008 SPECIAL SALE of COUNTY 2700 SERIES This month we offer a special sale of COUNTY RECORDS fine IMPORTANT 2700 series of old-time and Bluegrass records, which now numbers NOTICE: close to 40 excellent releases. All items in this series will be available SATURDAY CLOSING Please note that COUNTY SALES will no for one month only at a sale price of just $ 10.00 per CD (save $ 3.50 longer be open on Saturdays as we have been for the past several per record!) See page 2 for details years. Customers are of course still welcome to visit our shop/ warehouse in Floyd during regular business hours of 9:00 AM to DOCUMENT LABEL This European re-issue label has become in- 4:30 PM Monday through Friday. active recently and we are no longer able to restock most of their 50- odd CD titles. You might try ordering some of the titles you missed POSTAGE and UPS RATE INCREASE while we still have some stock, but don’t be surprised if many issues As expected, postage rates have gone up again this January, and are gone. unfortunately the increases will be quite significant for FOREIGN and CANADIAN customers especially. UPS Rates have also gone OUR 41st YEAR OF COUNTY SALES up, affecting mostly domestic customers. Please note that if you With the New Year 2006 upon us, we begin our 41st year of do not specify method of shipment on your order, we will ship it the operation since starting in 1965 with a mailing list of about cheapest way possible. This is usually via MEDIA MAIL on U.S. 100 names (and only about 30 or 40 different LP titles in orders, and via Postal Surface Mail for overseas orders. stock!). We thank all of you who have ordered repeatedly from us over the years, whether one of our first 1000 cus- JANETTE CARTER tomers (there are actually quite a few!) or those who have We are saddened to have to report the passing of JANETTE discovered our service recently. We especially appreciate CARTER, who died on Jan 22 at the age of 82. The last survivor of your letting others know about COUNTY SALES, as word- two generations of Carters who made music history, she was one of of-mouth is still our biggest source of new names. Though three children (along with Gladys and Joe) of the late A.P. and Sara good record stores are disappearing quickly now, there are Carter. Just a child at the famous original Victor recording sessions a number of web sites that carry Bluegrass and Old-Time in 1927, Janette went on to sing over Mexican border radio stations music. But we pride ourselves in digging out and carrying as part of the Carter Family in the late 1930s, and made some record- those unusual items that you won’t find in one place any- ings of her own. But most of all, she will be remembered as the where else: for example CDs issued by such esoteric labels strong, dedicated woman who established the “Carter Fold” on her as Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Dust-To-Digital, father’s land in his memory, and used it to support the musicians of Old Hat, Revenant, British Archive of Country Music, Arts the mountain region by providing a regional stage for them. There Council of Cannon County, Augusta Heritage Workshop, the were many wonderful shows over the years at the “fold”, including great German Bear Family label and the many University an early reunion with Sara & Maybelle Carter and appearances by Presses—these are just a few sources we buy from to main- Johnny Cash & June Carter among many others. Janette’s death tain a stock that now includes over 5,000 different titles of ends a remarkable career in a remarkable location: the one and only Bluegrass, Old-Time, Fiddle and Gospel music (CDs, DVDs Poor Valley in the shadow of Clinch Mountain. and BOOKs). Remember that our Newsletter is free to any- one placing one or more orders from us in a year’s time! Purchase Amount $4.00-29.99 $30.00-59.99 $60.00-139.99 $140.00-199.99 Over $200.00 U. S. Regular Mail 3.50 4.00 6.00 6.50 7.50 U. S. Priory Mail 4.50 5.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 International Surface 6.00 7.50 9.00 11.50 Actual International Air 9.00 12.00 15.00 25.00 Actual **For COD shipments, please add $6.00 in addition to regular shipping charges. DOMESTIC ORDER ONLY. For special expedited rates (FED EX, UPS, NEXT DAY, etc) please call or fax us for cost & authorization. DOMESTIC ORDERS ONLY. **CANADIAN ORDERS: MINIMUM SHIPPING CHARGE is $6.00 for 1-7 CDs and $8.00 for 8 or more CDs. SEND ALL ORDERS TO: COUNTY SALES P.O. BOX 191 FLOYD, VA 24091 540-745-2001 * Minimum credit card order is $25.00 * (Fax) 540-745-2008 2 SPECIAL SALE ON ALL COUNTY-2700 SERIES CDs This month only we are offering all records in COUNTY’s 2700 series at a SPECIAL SALE PRICE of just $ 10.00 per CD. That means a savings of $ 3.50 per CD off our already discounted price! There is no minimum and no limit as to how many you can buy, and any items you order here CAN be applied towards your special offer (buy 6 records and get a 7th CD free). Offer ends MARCH 15, 2006. Take advantage of this one-time offer ! COUNTY’s 2700 SERIES is devoted primarily to outstanding recordings of OLD-TIME MUSIC. Some of the discs are re-issues from classic County LPs from the 1960s & 70s, while others are new compilations or CDs by current artists. They represent some of the finest examples of rural American music on the market today. CO-2703 FRANKLIN GEORGE Trad. Fiddle & banjo CO-2722 BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAIN HOLIDAY CO-2705 KENNY BAKER “Master Fiddler” CO-2723 TONY ELLIS “Quaker Girl” CO-2706 BOBBY HICKS “Texas Crapshooter” CO-2724 TOMMY JARRELL “Sail Away Ladies” CO-2707 LYMAN ENLOE “Fiddle Tunes I Recall” CO-2725 TOMMY JARRELL “Rainbow Sign” CO-2708 KENNY BAKER “Plays Bill Monroe” CO-2726 TOMMY JARRELL “Come & Go With Me” CO-2709 CHESTNUT GROVE QUARTET CO-2727 TOMMY JARRELL “Pickin On Tommy’s Porch” CO-2710 MOUNTAIN DULCIMER Russell Family CO-2728 RAFE STEFANINI “Hell & Scissors” CO-2711 KIRK SUTPHIN “Old Roots, New Branches” CO-2729 ART STAMPER “Goodbye Girls, I’m Going To Boston” CO-2712 ART STAMPER “The Lost Fiddler” CO-2730 RAFE STEFANINI “Glory On The Big String” CO-2713 LEGEND OF CLARK KESSINGER CO-2731 KENNY BAKER “Frost On The Pumpkin” CO-2714 BRAD LEFTWICH “Say Old Man” CO-2732 KENNY BAKER “A Baker’s Dozen” CO-2715 HOLLOW ROCK STRING BAND CO-2733 KENNY BAKER & BOBBY HICKS “Darkness Delta” CO-2716 CLAWHAMMER BANJO—Vol. 1 CO-2734 JENKINS, JARRELL & COCKERHAM—Vol 1 CO-2717 CLAWHAMMER BANJO—Vol. 2 CO-2735 JENKINS, JARRELL & COCKERHAM—Vol. 2 CO-2718 CLAWHAMMER BANJO—Vol. 3 CO-2736 ART STAMPER “Darling Corey” CO-2719 CAMP CREEK BOYS Old Time Band CO-2737 BENNY THOMASSON Texas Fiddler CO-2720 WILL KEYS “Banjo Original” CO-2738 TROUBLESOME CREEK STRING BAND CO-2721 STEPHEN WADE “Dancing In Parlor” CO-2739 3 FIDDLERS FROM THE “SHOW ME” STATE Among many gems in County’s catalog are the three CLAWHAMMER BANJO CDs—newly edited versions of the landmark early set of LPs that featured recordings by many of the very best Appalachian artists such as Wade Ward, Kyle Creed, Tommy Jarrell, Fred Cockerham, Oscar Wright, Matokie Slaughter & many more: essential for fans and students of old-time banjo! The great Tommy Jarrell’s music is beautifully documented in the 4-album “LEGACY OF TOMMY JARRELL” series (2724-2727) with his fiddle featured on CO-2724 , his great banjo work on CO-2726 and the other two CDs featuring him in the more typical string band setting. He also appears on BLUE RIDGE MT. HOLIDAY (CO-2722, edited by Paul Brown), and on the two marvelous albums with Fred Cockerham & Oscar Jenkins (“Cider Mill” and “Stay All Night”, CO-2734 & 2735 respectively). Fiddle music has always been a strong point with COUNTY, and there are no less than 15 such albums in the 2700 series, some of them considered among the best fiddle recordings ever issued. The great KENNY BAKER is beautifully represented with “Frost On The Pumpkin”, “A Baker’s Dozen” and his stunning twin fiddle disc with another of the finest Bluegrass fiddlers, Bobby Hicks (CO-2733, “Darkness On The Delta”). Baker’s tribute to Bill Monroe—with Monroe playing mandolin on every track—is one of the great Bluegrass fiddle albums, and saw the first recording of ROAD TO COLUMBUS (CO-2708). For a great all-around sampling of Baker’s work, try CO- 2705 “Master Fiddler”, which is drawn from the very best of Bakers 12 records for the County label. More great fiddle albums include three by the late ART STAMPER: “Lost Fiddler” (CO-2712) is half old-time and half Bluegrass (with J.D. Crowe on banjo)—the other 2 are pure old-time with many great old tunes. CO-2713 THE LEGEND OF CLARK KESSINGER is one of the all-time great fiddle albums by a true master of old-time fiddle.