Barbara Bearman and Andrea Konrad, these songs are for you (listeners can think of your own mothers, if you like).
Disregard the many mentions of death, old time's just a morbid genre.
JB&OK
Artist / Song Title / Album / Label
Bud Billings & Carson Robinson / You'll Never Miss Your Mother Till She's Gone / Victor 21586 - B / Victor Barbeque Bob / Motherless Chile Blues / Complete Recorded Works, Vol I / Document Felix Dukes and Mississippi Fred McDowell / Motherless Children / Sounds of the South, Volume 4: American Folk Songs for Children / Folkways Ward Jarvis / Old Mother Flannagan / Recordings From The Collection Of Jeff Goehring / Field Recorders Collective Ricky Skaggs / Mother's Only Sleeping / Honoring The Fathers of Bluegrass Tribute to 1946 and 1947 / Skaggs Family
The Armstrong Twins / Mother's Only Sleeping / Mandolin Boogie / Arhoolie Woody Guthrie / I Want My Milk / Songs to Grow On for Mother and Child / Folkways Bad Livers / I'm Goin' Back To Mom And Dad / Industry & Thrift / Sugar Hill Narmour & Smith / Sweet Milk and Peaches / Roots and Blues: The Retrospective / Sony Abe Horton and Harold Hausenfluck / Mother's Prayer / Sweet Sunny South / Heritage
Doc Watson / Mama Don't Allow / Memories / United Artists Hunger Mountain Boys / Scatterbrain Mama / Three / Old Fi Dorothy Howard / I Dropped the Baby / Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still: Warner collection Volume I / Appleseed John Jackson / Trucking Little Baby / Don't Let Your Deal Go Down / Rounder Walter Cole / Mama Keep Your Yes Ma´am Clean / Cincinnati Blues (1920-36) / Catfish E.C. Ball / Sweetest Mother / E.C. Ball with Orna Ball / Rounder Fred Van Eps / Lonesome Mama Blues / Edison 78 / Edison
Lester & Linda McCumbers / Shake My Mother's Hand For Me / Old Timey Tunes of Central West VA / WiseKrack Roscoe Holcomb / Motherless Children / The High Lonesome Sound / Folkways Mississippi John Hurt / Will The Circle Be Unbroken? / DC Blues Library of Congress Recordings Vol II / Fuel 2000 Red Allen / Shake Hands With Mother Again / The Folkways Years 1964 - 1983 / Folkways Dan Paisley & Southern Grass / Don't Throw Mama's Flowers Away / The Room Over Mine / Rounder
John Hartford / Let Him Go On Mama / Live / None Georgia Yellow Hammers / Ma, Pa, and Me / The Moonshine Hollow Band / Rounder The Fox Hunt / Grandmommy Take A Look At Uncle Sam / America's Working So We Don't Have To / Skull City Nee Ningy Band / Annie Had a Baby / Nee Ningy Band / Field Recorders Collective Gus Cannon & his Jug Stompers / Pretty Mama Blues / 1927-30 Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers / Yazoo
Rebecca King Jones / Rocky By Baby / Nothing Seems Better To Me: Warner Collection Volume II / Appleseed Ralph Stanley / Motherless Children / A Distant Land To Roam: Songs of the Carter Family / Columbia Big Joe Williams / Mama Don't Allow Me To Fool Around All Night Long / Mississippi's Big Joe Williams And His Nine-String Guitar / Folkways Elizabeth cotton / Home Sweet Home / When I'm Gone / Folkways Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / Memories of Mother and Dad / 1965-73 Pioneering Women of Bluegrass / Folkways Jimmie Rodgers / Mother, The Queen of My Heart / The Singing Brakeman / Bear Family
John Haywood / Mistreated Mamma / Vol II / Self Nitty Gritty Dirt Band / Will The Circle Be Unbroken? / Will The Circle Be Unbroken? / United Artists