Tonight it's all songs about music making. Banjo picking girls, Steel Guitar Rags, Rhythm Songs.
So self-referential, so meta!
That's right! Old time music is so pre-modern it's post-modern!
Take that, hipsters!
JB&OK
Artist / Title / Album / Comments
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band / Grand Old Opry Song / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / United Artists Stuff Smith / I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music / And His Onyx Club Boys 1936-1939 / Classics The Del McCoury Band / Learnin' the Blues / Celebrating 50 Years of Del McCoury / McCoury Music Don Reno / I Like Mountain Music / The Golden Guitar Of Don Reno / King Bryan Sutton and Friends / Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar / Almost Live / Sugar Hill
Ben Krakauer And Pete Frostic / Wide Open / Wide Open / Self Old Time Musicians of Union Grover, 1969 / Fiddler's Dream / 1969 Union Grover / Field Recorders Collective Cecil Plum / About writing fiddle tunes (talk) / Cecil Plum with tracks by Lonnie Seymour / Field Recorders Collective Gaither Carlton / Fisher's Hornpipe / Gaither Carlton, 1972 / Field Recorders Collective Carter Brothers & Son / Give The Fiddler A Dram / Roots of American Fiddle Music - Volume 2 / http://1001tunes.com The Whitetop Mountaineers / Banjo Pickin' Girl / Home on the Mountain / Self Clifford Hayes And The Dixieland Jug Blowers / Blue Guitar Stomp / Clifford Hayes & The Dixieland Jug Blowers / Yazoo Jimmy Martin / Guitar Picking President / Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys, 1954 - 1974 / Bear Family Roy Harvey & Jess Johnson / Guitar Rag / Old Time Mountain Guitar / County
Kilby Snow / Autoharp Chimes / Kilby Snow - Recordings From The Brandywine Friends of Old Time Music / Field Recorders Collective Country Gentlemen / Foggy Mountain Chimes / Live 1961 / http://saggyrecordcabinet.blogspot.com/ Jim Lauderdale / Who Will Sing For Me / I Feel Like Singing Today / Dualtone The Hunger Mountain Boys / Nashville Don't Touch My Country Music / Hand Picked: The Best Of Watermelon Hand Picked: The Best Of Watermelon Park Fest / Shepherd's Ford Hank Williams / How To Write Folk & Western Music To Sell / The Complete Hank Williams / Time Life The Red Clay Ramblers / Play "Rocky Top" / Chuckin' The Frizz / Flying Fish
Country All Stars / It Goes Like This (That Funny Melody) / Jazz from the Hills / Bear Family Hobart Smith / Full of Music as I Could Be / In Sacred Trust: The 1963 Fleming Brown Tapes / Smithsonian Folkways Chuck Darling / Blowin' The Blues / Harmonica Blues / Yazoo Spirits Of Rhythm / Rhythm / Spirits Of Rhythm 1933-34 / JSP Neil Morris / Music Has No End (With Commentary) / Southern Journey, Volume 7: Ozark Frontier / Prestige The Del McCoury Band / Don't Stop the Music / Celebrating 50 Years of Del McCoury / McCoury Music Dave Apollon / Music Maestro Please / The Man With The Mandolin: Disc 1 (1930-1939) / Acoustic Disc Bessie Smith / I Ain't Goin' To Play No Second Fiddle / The Complete Recordings, Volume 2 / Columbia
The Mills Brothers / London Rhythm / The Mills Brothers / Geffen John Lee Hooker / Teachin' The Blues / The Ultimate Collection, 1948 - 1990 / Rhino Geogia Jumpers / Guitar Rhythm / King Bennie Nawahi - Hawaiian String Virtuoso / Yazoo Adolph Hofner and His Texans / I'll Keep My Old Guitar / The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, & Cowboys - Tobacco State Swing / Proper Eric Weissberg/Marshall Brickman / Feuding Banjos / 1956 Traditional Banjo Music of the Ozarks / Legacy
The Brother Boys / Band Box / Presley's Grocery / Sugar Hill