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Fred Pendelton, B l i n d   A L F R E D   R E E D and Arville Reed (I suppose)
Fred Pendelton, Alfred Reed and Arville Reed

Blind Alfred Reed
b. June 15, 1880 in Floyd, Virginia
d. January 17, 1956 in the Princeton area in Mercer County, West Virginia
buried in Elgood, West Virginia
discography
Fred Pendelton and B l i n d   A L F R E D   R E E D; source:
Fred Pendelton and Alfred Reed

#year
of release
title / label / notes

10 inch 78 rpm
Since this ain't no museum, my aim is not to depict actually existing specimen of 78 rpm records,
but to show the labels as pristine as workmanlike possible

even if this - in some cases - takes a whole lot of my time to photoshop process the initial data
11927Blind Alfred Reed

- Walking In the Way With Jesus (39728-2) #   @ youtube
- The Wreck of the Virginian (39725-2)   @ youtube

rec. July 28, 1927 in Bristol, TN; Alfred Reed, voc, fiddle; # poss. Arthur Wyrick, g


Victor 20836

   

- The Wreck of the Virginian (39725-1) *
- Walking In the Way With Jesus (39728-1) #

rec. July 28, 1927 in Bristol, TN; Alfred Reed, voc, fiddle; # poss. Arthur Wyrick, g

Victor unissued

* RCA LPV532, RCA RD7870

# CMF 011-M, CMF 011D

21927Blind Alfred Reed

- I Mean To Live For Jesus (39726)   @ youtube
- You Must Unload (39727)   @ youtube

rec. July 28, 1927 in Bristol, TN; Alfred Reed, voc, fiddle; poss. Arthur Wyrick, g




Victor 20939

 1927West Virginia Night Owls / Orville Reed

West Virginia Night Owls
- Sweet Bird (40788-2) *   @ youtube

Orville Reed
- The Telephone Girl (40795-2) #   @ youtube

# rec. December 19, 1927 in Camden, NJ; Arville Reed, voc, g
* rec. December 19, 1927 in Camden, NJ; Fred Pendleton, voc, fiddle; Arville Reed, voc, g


Victor 21190

 1927West Virginia Night Owls

- The Fate Of Rose Sarlo (40764-1, -2)
- Give The Flapper A Chew (40765-1, -2)

rec. December 19, 1927 in Camden, NJ; Fred Pendleton, voc, fiddle; Arville Reed, voc, g

Victor unissued

31927Blind Alfred Reed

- Explosion In the Fairmount Mines (40790)   @ youtube
- The Prayer of the Drunkard's Little Girl (40794)   @ youtube

rec. December 19, 1927 in Camden, NJ; Alfred Reed, voc, fiddle; Arville Reed, g


Victor 21191

41927Blind Alfred Reed

- Why Do You Bob Your Hair, Girls? (40792)   @ youtube
- Always Lift Him Up and Never Knock Him Down (40793)   @ youtube

rec. December 19, 1927 in Camden, NJ; Alfred Reed, voc, fiddle; Arville Reed, g


Victor 21360

51927West Virginia Night Owls / Blind Alfred Reed

West Virginia Night Owls
- I'm Goin' To Walk On The Streets Of Glory (40789-2) *


Blind Alfred Reed
- Fate of Chris Lively and Wife (40791) #   @ youtube

* rec. December 19, 1927 in Camden, NJ; Fred Pendleton, voc, fiddle; Arville Reed, voc, g

# rec. December 19, 1927 in Camden, NJ; Alfred Reed, voc, fiddle; Arville Reed, g


Victor 21533

61927Blind Alfred and Orville Reed

- There'll Be No Distinction There (57573)   @ youtube
- Beware (57575)   @ youtube

rec. December 19, 1927 in Camden, NJ; Alfred Reed, voc, fiddle; Arville Reed, g, voc


Victor 23550

71929Blind Alfred and Orville Reed

- The Old Fashioned Cottage (57742)   @ youtube
- You'll Miss Me (57746)   @ youtube

rec. December 4, 1929 in New York, NY; Alfred Reed, voc, fiddle; Arville Reed, g, voc


Victor 23650

81929Blind Alfred Reed

- Why Don't [sic] You Bob Your Hair Girls–No. 2 (57572)   @ youtube
- Woman's Been After Man Ever Since (57571)   @ youtube

rec. December 3, 1929 in New York, NY; Alfred Reed, voc, fiddle; Arville Reed, g


Victor V-40196

91929Blind Alfred Reed

- How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live (57743)   @ youtube
- Money Cravin' Folks (57747)   @ youtube

rec. December 4, 1929 in New York, NY; Alfred Reed, voc, fiddle; Arville Reed, g


Victor V-40236

101929Blind Alfred Reed

- We've Just Got To Have 'Em, That's All (5757) #   @ youtube
- Black and Blue Blues (57744) *   @ youtube

# rec. December 3, 1929 in New York, NY; Alfred Reed, voc, fiddle; Arville Reed, g

* rec. December 4, 1929 in New York, NY; Alfred Reed, voc, fiddle; Arville Reed, g, [] voc


Victor V-40290

   

- The Railroader (57576-1, -2) #
- Bonnie Little Girl (57745-1, -2) *

# rec. December 3, 1929 in New York, NY; Alfred Reed, voc, fiddle; Arville Reed, g

* rec. December 4, 1929 in New York, NY; Alfred Reed, voc, fiddle; Arville Reed, g

Victor unissued

1119??Blind Alfred Reed

- Always Lift Him Up and Never Knock Him Down [Victor 21360]
- There'll Be No Distinction There [Victor 23550]


Bluebird B-5882


LP / CD compilations
121966The Railroad in Folksong

Rouse Brothers - Orange Blossom Special
Carolina Tar Heels - The Train's Done Left Me
The Carter Family - Engine One-Forty-Three
Harry "Mac" McClintock - Jerry, Go Ile That Car
Tenneva Ramblers - If I Die A Railroad Man

Blind Alfred Reed - The Wreck Of The Virginian (39725-1)
Monroe Brothers - Nine Pound Hammer Is Too Heavy
Jimmie Davis - The Davis Limited

The Delmore Brothers - The Cannon Ball
J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers - The Longest Train
Vernon Dalhart - Wreck Of The Old 97
G.B. Grayson - The Red And Green Signal Lights
Byron Parker And His Mountaineers - Peanut Special
Johnson Brothers - Crime Of The D'Autremont Brothers
Palmer McAbee - McAbee's Railroad Piece
Paul Warmack And His Gully Jumpers - The Little Red Caboose Behind The Train



RCA Victor LPV 532


= RCA RD7870 (UK 1967)

131971Old Time Ballads from the Southern Mountains

B.F. Shelton - Pretty Polly
Frank Jenkins' Pilot Mountaineers - Burial Of Wild Bill
Burnett & Rutherford - Pearl Bryan
Mr. & Mrs. J.W. Baker - The Newmarket Wreck
Watts & Wilson - The Sporting Cowboy

Blind Alfred Reed & Orville Reed - Fate Of Chris Liveley & Wife

The Carolina Buddies - Otto Wood The Bandit
John Hammond - My Mama Always Talked To Me
G.B. Grayson & Henry Whitter - The Banks Of The Ohio
Emry Arthur - The Broken Wedding
The Hickory Nuts - Louisville Burglar
Kelly Harrel, The Virginia String Band - Charles Guiteau



County 522

141972How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?
The Songs of Blind Alfred Reed


- Walking in the Way with Jesus
- Black and Blue Blues
- Why Do You Bob Your Hair Girls?
- Explosion in the Fairmont Mines
- You Must Unload
- The Prayer of the Drunkard's Little Girl
- Always Lift Him Up and Never Kncok Him Down

- Beware
- How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?
- Woman's Been After Man Ever Since
- We've Just Got to Have 'Em That's All
- I Mean To Live For Jesus
- Why Don't You Bob Your Hair Girls No. 2
- There'll Be No Distinction There


Rounder 1001 (US 1972)

Rounder Records discography

151987Home In West Virginia / West Virginia Project - Vol. II

Weaver Brothers - You Came Back To Me
Weaver Brothers - Prison Sorrows
Billy Cox - High Silk Hat And A Gold Walking Cane
Dick Justice - Little Lulie
Warren Caplinger's Cumberland Mountain Entertainers - Nobody's Business
Fruit Jar Guzzlers - Kentucky Boot Leggers
John B. Evans - Three Nights Experience
Jackson County Barn Owls - Bake That Chicken Pie
Blaine Smith, Cal Smith - When A Boy From The Mountains

Ellis Hall, Bill Addis - My Little Home In West Virginia

Blind Alfred Reed, Arville Reed - You'll Miss Me
Blind Alfred Reed, Arville Reed - Old Fashioned Cottage
Roy Harvey, Bernice Coleman, Ernest Branch - Wreck Of The C & O Sportsman
Miller Wikel, John McGhee - Frail Wildwood Flower
Frank Dudgeon - Atlanta Bound
Fred Pendleton, West Virginia Melody Boys - Wreck Of The West Bound Airliner
Fred Pendleton, West Virginia Melody Boys - Come Take A Trip In My Airship
Frank Dudgeon - I Hate To Be Called A Hobo



Old Homestead OHCS-177

161987The Bristol Sessions

LP 1:
- Skip To Ma Lou, My Darling - Uncle Eck Dunford
- O Molly Dear - B.F. Shelton

- Walking In The Way With Jesus (39728-1) - Blind Alfred Reed
- The Newmarket Wreck - Mr. & Mrs. J.W. Baker
- The Soldier's Sweetheart - Jimmie Rodgers
- Greasy String - West Virginia Coon Hunters
- Are You Washed In The Blood? - Ernest V. Stoneman & His Dixie Mountaineers
- Henry Whitter's Fox Chase - Henry Whitter
- Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow Tree - The Carter Family
- The Jealous Sweetheart - Johnson Brothers
- When They Ring The Golden Bells - Alfred G. Karnes
- Sandy River Belle - Dad Blackard's Moonshiners
- Sleep, Baby, Sleep - Jimmie Rodgers
- Johnny Goodwin - Bull Mountain Moonshiners
- I'm Redeemed - Alcoa Quartet
- Little Log Cabin By The Sea - Carter Family
- Old Time Corn Shuckin' (Parts 1 & 2) - Blue Ridge Corn Shuckers


LP 2:
- I Want To Go Where Jesus Is - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Quartet
- Midnight On The Stormy Deep - Ernest Stoneman, Irma Frost & Eck Dunford
- The Wandering Boy - The Carter Family
- To The Work - Alfred G. Karnes
- Black-Eyed Susie - J.P. Nestor
- A Passing Policeman - Johnson Brothers
- Tell Mother I Will Meet Her - Ernest Stoneman, K. Brewer & M. Mooney
- Single Girl, Married Girl - The Carter Family
- Pot Licker Blues - El Watson

- The Longest Train I Ever Saw - Tenneva Ramblers
- The Resurrection - Ernest Stoneman & His Dixie Mountaineers
- The Storms Are On The Ocean - Carter Family

- The Wreck Of The Virginian (39725-1)- Blind Alfred Reed
- Billy Grimes, The Rover - Shelor Family
- Standing On The Promises - Tennessee Mountaineers
- The Mountaineer's Courtship - Ernest Stoneman, Irma Frost & Eck Dunford
- The Poor Orphan Child - Carter Family
- I Am Bound For The Promised Land - Alfred G. Karnes


DLP
notes by Charles Wolfe

Country Music Foundation CMF-011-L

= CMF-011-D (Ca 1991)

171998Blind Alfred Reed 1927 - 1929
Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order

- The Wreck Of The Virginian
- I Mean To Live For Jesus
- You Must Unload
- Walking In The Way With Jesus
- Explosion In The Fairmount Mines
- Fate Of Chris Lively And Wife
- Why Do You Bob Your Hair, Girls?
- Always Lift Him Up And Never Knock Him Down
- The Prayer Of The Drunkard's Little Girl
- The Telephone Girl (Arville Reed, voc, g)
- Woman's Been After Man Ever Since
- Why Don't You Bob Your Hair Girls? - No. 2
- There'll Be No Distinction There
- We've Got To Have 'em, That's All
- Beware
- The Old-Fashioned Cottage
- How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live
- Black And Blue Blues
- You'll Miss Me
- Money Cravin' Folks


Document DOCD-8022

17a1998Titanic Songs
Original Phonograph Recordings Honoring The Disaster - Recorded 1912 to 1948

Vernon Dalhart Sinking Of The Great Titanic (2:52)
Vernon Dalhart - The Ship That Never Returned (3:00)

Dixon Brothers - Down With The Old Canoe (2:48)
Frank Hutchison - The Last Scene Of The Titanic (3:26)
George Reneau - The Sinking Of The Titanic (2:59)
Virginia Liston - Titanic Blues (3:05)
Blind Willie Johnson - God Moves On The Water (2:57)
Vernon Dalhart - The Sinking Of The Titanic (3:09)
Richard "Rabbit" Brown - Sinking Of The Titanic (3:42)
Jeff Calhoun - The Wreck Of The Titanic (2:59)
Hi Henry Brown - Titanic Blues (3:07)
Leadbelly - The Titanic (3:40)
The Blue Ridge Mountaineer - Sinking Of The Titanic (4:41)
William and Versey Smith - When That Great Ship Went Down (2:51)
Ernest V. Stoneman & His Dixie Mountaineers - The Titanic (2:35)
Ernest Gray - Stand To Your Post (2:50)
Ernest Gray - Be British (3:09)
Frank Oldfield - Be British (3:33)



Unsinkable Music TSCD 22798 (Ca 1998)

1819??Jazz Figures: Blind Alfred Reed
Original Recordings 1927 - 1929

- Walking In The Way With Jesus
- I Mean To Live For Jesus
- You Must Unload
- The Wreck Of The Virginian
- Explosion In The Fairmount Mines
- Fate of Chris Lively And Wife
- Why Do You Bob Your Hair, Girls
- The Telephone Girl
- The Prayer Of The Drunkard's Little Girl
- Always Lift Him Up And Never Knock Him Down
- We've Got To Have 'Em, That's All
- Why Don't You Bob Your Hair Girls
- There'll Be No Distinction There
- Woman's Been After You Ever Since
- You'll Miss Me
- The Old-Fashioned Cottage
- Beware
- Money Cravin' Blues
- How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live
- Black And Blue Blues


Collector

191997The Rose Grew Round The Briar   Vol. 1
Early American Rural Love Songs
Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s

- I Went to See My Sweetheart - Walter Smith/Lewis McDaniel & Walter Smith
- Dark Holler Blues - Clarence Ashley
- I Do Blues - Robert Wilkins
- What Will I Do, for My Money Is All Gone - Hattie Stoneman/Uncle Eck Dunford/Eck Dunford & Hattie Stoneman

- The Old Fashioned Cottage - Alfred Reed/Alfred & Orville Reed
- Lonesome Man Blues - George Torey
- Little Maggie With a Dram Glass in Her Hand - Grayson & Whitter
- False Hearted Lover's Blues - Dock Boggs
- Brooklyn Blues (45th Street Blues) - Clifford Gibson
- Stolen Love - Red Fox Chasers
- Shady Grove - The Kentucky Thorobreds
- Down on My Bended Knee - King Solomon Hill
- I Truly Understand That You Love Another Man - Shortbuckle Roark & Family
- A Pretty Gal's Love - Whitter/Hendly-Whitter-Small
- Drive Away Blues - Blind Willie McTell
- A Short Life of Trouble - Buell Kazee
- Going to Germany - Cannon's Jug Stompers
- Dark Eyes - Morris Family
- Lulu Wall - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
- Lost Lover Blues - Lottie Kimbrough
- Don't Say Goodbye - Leroy Carr
- Hobo from the T & P Line, Pt. 2 - Almoth Hodges
- Barbara Allen - Bradley Kincaid


remastered by Richard Nevins

notes by Don Kent

Yazoo CD 2030 (US 1997)

Yazoo Records discography

201997The Rose Grew Round The Briar   Vol. 2
Early American Rural Love Songs
Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s

- Old Time Rider - Clifford Gibson
- Handsome Molly - Grayson & Whitter
- Last Gold Dollar - Ephraim Woodie
- Built Right On The Ground - Blind Teddy Darby
- George Collins - Roy Harvey
- It's Hard To Leave You Sweet Love - Lewis McDaniel
- Cheatin' Women - Will Batts
- Little Sweetheart Pal Of Mine - The Red Fox Chasers
- Grave In The Pines - Clayton McMichen
- Tired Of You Driving Me - Memphis Jug Band
- Little Bunch Of Roses - Murphy Brothers Harp Band

- You'll Miss Me - Alfred & Orville Reed
- Experience Blues - Ruth Day
- Once I Loved A Railroad Flagman - Frank Jenkins
- I'll Remember Your Love In My Prayers - Blue Ridge Mountain Singers
- Saro - Warren Capplinger
- Teasin Brown Blues - Louis Lasky
- Lost Love Blues - Dock Boggs
- Look On & Cry - Wade Mainer
- My Man Left Me - Katherine Baker
- Tombigbee River Farewell - Karl & Harty
- Baby Will You Please Come Home - Lonnie Johnson
- You Are My Sunshine - Wilf "Montana Slim" Carter


remastered by Richard Nevins

notes by Don Kent

Yazoo CD 2031 (US 1997)

Yazoo Records discography

211998Hard Times Come Again No More   Vol. 1
Rural Songs of Hard Times and Hardships
Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s

The Bentley Boys - Down On Penny's Farm
Blind Alfred Reed - How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live
Lane Hardin - Hard Time Blues >[Bluebird B6242]
Ernest Stoneman - All I Got's Gone
Slim Smith - Bread Line Blues
Alec Johnson - Miss Meal Cramp Blues
Kelly Harrell - My Name Is John Johanna
Dave McCarn - Serves 'em Fine
J.D. Short - It's Hard Time
Uncle Dave Macon - All In Down And Out
Rutherford & Foster - Richmond Blues
Elder Curry & His Congregation - Hard Times
Cofer Brothers - Georgia Hobo
Blind Lemon Jefferson - One Dime Blues
Fiddlin' John Carson - Dixie Boll Weevil
Chubby Parker - See The Black Clouds A'Breakin' Over Yonder
Scrapper Blackwell - Down And Out Blues
Edward L. Crain - Starving To Death On A Government Claim
Barbecue Bob - We Sure Got Hard Times
Samantha Bumgarner - Georgia Blues
Mississippi John Hurt - Blue Harvest Blues
Dixon Brothers - Weaver's Life
Graham Brothers - Hard Times Come Again No More


notes by Don Kent

Yazoo CD 2036 (US 1998)

Yazoo Records discography

222000Old-Time Music of West Virginia Vol. 2
Ballads, Blues and Breakdowns

- Garfield March - Kessinger Brothers
- Sweet Bird - West Virginia Night Owls
- West Virginia Rag - Frank Hutchison
- Poca River Blues - Justice & Jarvis
- Beckley Rag - Harvey & Copeland
- Gonna Die With My Hammer In My Hand - Williamson Bros. & Curry

- Explosion In The Fairmont Mines - Blind Alfred Reed
- Stack-o-lee - Fruit Jar Guzzlers
- Home Brew Rag - Tweedy Brothers
- The Miner's Blues - Frank Hutchison
- Underneath The Sugar Moon - Harvey & Copeland
- Sally Goodin - Kessinger Brothers
- Kentucky Bootlegger - Fruit Jar Guzzlers
- Warfield - Williamson Bros. & Curry

- You'll Miss Me - Blind Alfred Reed
- Lonesome Road Blues - Leftwich & Lilly
- Muskrat Rag - Jarvis & Justice
- Liza Jane - McClung Brothers
- Ragtime Annie - Corn Cob Crushers



County CD 3519

232000Anthology Of American Folk Music Volume 4

disc 1:
- Memphis Shakedown - Memphis Jug Band
- Dog And Gun (An Old English Ballad) - Bradley Kincaid
- Black Jack David - The Carter Family
- Down On The Banks Of The Ohio - Blue Sky Boys
- Adieu False Heart - Arthur Smith Trio
- John Henry Was A Little Boy - J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers
- Nine Pound Hammer Is Too Heavy - Monroe Brothers
- Southern Casey Jones - Jesse James
- Cold Iron Bed - Jack Kelly And His South Memphis Jug Band
- Packin' Trunk - Lead Belly
- Baby Please Don't Go - Joe Williams' Washboard Blues Singers
- Last Fair Deal Gone Down - Robert Johnson
- Parchman Farm Blues - Bukka White
- Mean Old World - Heavenly Gospel Singers

disc 2:
- Hello Stranger - The Carter Family
- Stand By Me - Sister Clara Hudmon
- West Virginia Gals - Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters

- How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live? - Blind Alfred Reed
- Wreck Of The Tennessee Gravy Train - Uncle Dave Macon
- Governor Al Smith - Uncle Dave Macon
- Milk Cow Blues - John Estes
- No Depression In Heaven - The Carter Family
- I'll Be Rested (When The Roll Is Called) - Roosevelt Graves And Brother
- He's In The Ring (Doing The Same Old Thing) - Memphis Minnie
- The Cockeyed World - Minnie Wallace
- Barbecue Bust - Mississippi Jook Band
- Dans Le Grand Bois (In The Forest) - Hackberry Ramblers
- Aces' Breakdown - The Four Aces


2 CD set

Revenant CD 211

242002The Roots of Ry Cooder

- Do Re Mi - Woody Guthrie
- Pigmeat Papa - Leadbelly
- Police Dog Blues - Blind Blake
- Brownsville Blues - Sleepy John Estes
- Dark Was The Night - Blind Willy Johnson
- On A Monday - Leadbelly
- Vigilante Man - Woody Guthrie
- Cherry Ball Blues - Skip James
- Taxes On The Farmer Feeds Them All - Fiddlin' John Carson
- The Bourgeois Blues - Leadbelly
- You Can't Stop a Tattler - Part 1 - Washington Phillips
- You Can't Stop a Tattler - Part 2 - Washington Phillips
- Diddie Wah Diddie - Blind Blake

- How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live? - Blind Alfred Reed
- Viola Lee Blues - Cannon's Jug Stompers
- Cross Road Blues - Robert Johnson -
- Irene - Leadbelly
- Statesboro Blues - Blind Willie McTell
- Poor Me - Charley Patton
- Candy Man Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
- Corrine, Corrina - Bo Carter


Catfish KATCD 216 (UK 2002)

Catfish Records (UK) discography

252003When The Sun Goes Down Vol. 6: Poor Man's Heaven

- Eddie Cantor's Tips On The Stock Market - Eddie Cantor
- A Tale Of Ticker - Frank Crumit
- Brother, Can You Spare A Dime - Leo Reisman & His Orchestra
- Remember My Forgotten Man - George Hall/The Hotel Taft Orchestra
- It Must Be Swell - Alex Bartha & His Hotel Traymore Orchestra
- Raising The Rent - Ramona & Roy Bargy
- Sittin' On A Rubbish Can - Snooks Friedman & His Orchestra
- Ten Cents A Dance - The High Hatters
- Poor Man's Heaven - Bud Billings/Carson Robison
- The Rich Man And The Poor Man - Bob Miller
- Hallelujah, I'm A Bum - "Mac" Harry McClintock
- All In Down And Out Blues - Uncle Dave Macon
- Taxes On The Farmer Feeds Them All - Fiddlin' John Carson

- How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live? - Blind Alfred Reed
- Farm Relief Song, The - Vernon Dalhart
- Dusty Old Dust (So Long, It's Been Good To Know You) - Woody Guthrie
- 35 Depression - Daddy Stovepipe & Mississippi Sarah
- California Desert Blues - Lane Hardin
- It's Hard Time - Joe Stone
- President Roosevelt Is Everybody's Friend - Rev. J.M. Gates
- CWA Blues - Joe Pullum
- Jimmy Shut His Store Doors - Cedar Creek Sheik (a.k.a. Philip McCutchen)
- Welfare Store Blues - Sonny Boy Williamson
- Poor But Ambitious - The Bamboo Orchestra/Wilmoth Houdini


Compilation producers: Barry Feldman, Colin Escott

notes by David Evans & Colin Escott

Bluebird RCA 50958

262011The Bristol Sessions 1927/28
The Big Bang of Country Music

disc 1:
- The Dying Girl's Farewell - Ernest V. Stoneman/Kahle Brewer
- Tell Mother I Will Meet Her - Ernest V. Stoneman/Kahle Brewer
- The Mountaineer's Courtship - Irma Frost/Ernest V. Stoneman
- Midnight on the Stormy Deep - Irma Frost/Ernest V. Stoneman
- Sweeping Through the Gates - Ernest V. Stoneman
- I Know My Name Is There - Ernest V. Stoneman & His Dixie Mountaineers
- Are You Washed in the Blood? - Ernest V. Stoneman & His Dixie Mountaineers
- No More Good-Byes - Ernest V. Stoneman & His Dixie Mountaineers
- The Resurrection [tk 1] - Ernest V. Stoneman & His Dixie Mountaineers
- The Resurrection [tk 2] - Ernest V. Stoneman & His Dixie Mountaineers
- I Am Resolved [tk 1] - Ernest V. Stoneman & His Dixie Mountaineers
- I Am Resolved [tk 2] - Ernest V. Stoneman & His Dixie Mountaineers
- I Want to Go Where Jesus Is - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Quartet
- Do, Lord, Remember Me - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Quartet
- Old Ship of Zion - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Quartet
- Jesus Getting Us Ready for That Great Day - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Quartet
- Happy in Prison - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Quartet
- Don't Grieve After Me - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Quartet
- What Will I Do, For My Money's All Gone - Hattie Stoneman/Uncle Eck Dunford
- The Whip-Poor-Will's Song - Uncle Eck Dunford
- Skip To Ma Lou, My Darling - Uncle Eck Dunford
- Barney McCoy - Ernest V. Stoneman/Uncle Eck Dunford
- Old Time Corn Shuckin', Pt. 1 - The Blue Ridge Corn Shuckers
- Old Time Corn Shuckin', Pt. 2 - The Blue Ridge Corn Shuckers

disc 2:
- The Jealous Sweetheart [tk 1] - The Johnson Brothers
- The Jealous Sweetheart [tk 2] - The Johnson Brothers
- A Passing Policeman - The Johnson Brothers
- Just a Message from Carolina - The Johnson Brothers

- The Wreck of the Virginian [tk 1] - Blind Alfred Reed
- The Wreck of the Virginian [tk 2] - Blind Alfred Reed
- I Mean to Live for Jesus - Blind Alfred Reed
- You Must Unload - Blind Alfred Reed
- Walking in the Way With Jesus [tk 1] - Blind Alfred Reed
- Walking in the Way With Jesus [tk 2] - Blind Alfred Reed
- Two Brothers Are We - The Johnson Brothers
- The Soldier's Poor Little Boy - The Johnson Brothers
- I Want to See My Mother (Ten Thousand Miles A - The Johnson Brothers
- Pot Liquor Blues - El Watson
- Narrow Gauge Blues - El Watson
- Cold Penitentiary Blues - B.F. Shelton
- Oh Molly Dear - B.F. Shelton
- Pretty Polly - B.F. Shelton
- Darling Cora - B.F. Shelton
- Called To the Foreign Field - Alfred G. Karnes
- I Am Bound For the Promised Land - Alfred G. Karnes
- Where We'll Never Grow Old - Alfred G. Karnes
- When They Ring the Golden Bells - Alfred G. Karnes
- To the Work - Alfred G. Karnes
- Train On the Island - J. P. Nester
- Black-Eyed Susie - J. P. Nester
- Johnny Goodwin - Bull Mountain Moonshiners

disc 3:
- Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow - The Carter Family
- Little Log Cabin By the Sea - The Carter Family
- The Poor Orphan Child - The Carter Family
- The Storms Are On the Ocean - The Carter Family
- Single Girl, Married Girl - The Carter Family
- The Wandering Boy - The Carter Family
- Remember Me, O Mighty One - Alcoa Quartet
- I'm Redeemed - Alcoa Quartet
- Henry Whitter's Fox Chase - Henry Whitter
- Rain Crow Bill - Henry Whitter
- Big Bend Gal - The Shelor Family
- Suzanna Gal - The Shelor Family
- Sandy River Belle [tk 1] - The Shelor Family
- Sandy River Belle [tk 2] - The Shelor Family
- Billy Grimes, the Rover - The Shelor Family
- The Newmarket Wreck - Mr. & Mrs. J.W. Baker
- On The Banks Of The Sunny Tennessee - Mr. & Mrs. J.W. Baker
- The Soldier's Sweetheart - Jimmie Rodgers
- Sleep Baby Sleep - Jimmie Rodgers
- The Longest Train I Ever Saw - The Tenneva Ramblers
- Sweet Heaven When I Die - The Tenneva Ramblers
- Miss 'Liza, Poor Gal - The Tenneva Ramblers
- Greasy String - West Virginia Coonhunters
- Your Blue Eyes Run Me Crazy - West Virginia Coonhunters
- Standing On the Promises - Tennessee Mountaineers
- Shall We Gather at the River - Tennessee Mountaineers

disc 4:
- My Name Is Ticklish Reuben - Smyth County Ramblers
- Way Down In Alabama - Smyth County Ramblers
- Do Not Wait 'Till I'm Laid 'Neath the Clay - Alfred G. Karnes
- The Days of My Childhood Plays - Alfred G. Karnes
- We Shall All Be Reunited - Alfred G. Karnes
- If the Light Has Gone Out In Your Soul - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers
- Went Up In the Clouds Of Heaven - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers
- I Know That Jesus Set Me Free - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers
- Shine On Me - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers
- Bright Tomorrow - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers
- A Little Talk With Jesus - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers
- I Cannot Be Your Sweetheart - Howard & Peak
- Three Black Sheep - Howard & Peak
- Good-night Darling - Clarence Greene
- The Broken-Hearted Lover - The Stoneman Family
- Angeline, The Baker - Uncle Eck Dunford
- Old Shoes and Leggin's - Uncle Eck Dunford
- We Parted By the Riverside - The Stoneman Family
- Down To Jordan and Be Saved
- There's a Light Lit Up In Galilee
- Going Up the Mountain After Liquor, Part 1 - The Stoneman Family
- Going Up the Mountain After Liquor, Part 2 - The Stoneman Family
- The Spanish Merchant's Daughter - The Stoneman Family
- Too Late - The Stoneman Family

disc 5:
- I'll Be Happy - Stamps Quartet
- Like the Rainbow - Stamps Quartet
- Because I Love Him - Stamps Quartet
- Come To the Savior - Stamps Quartet
- Do Your Best, Then Wear a Smile - Stamps Quartet
- We Shall Reach Home - Stamps Quartet
- My Mother Is Waiting For Me In Heaven Above - The Smith Brothers
- She Has Climbed the Golden Stair - The Smith Brothers
- We'll Sing On That Shore - Palmer Sisters
- Singing the Story of Grace - Palmer Sisters
- Help Me To Find The Way - Palmer Sisters
- He'll Be With Me - Palmer Sisters
- Brownie Blues - Tarter & Gay
- Unknown Blues - Tarter & Gay
- Where Is My Mamma? - Carolina Twins
- When You Go A'Courtin' - Carolina Twins
- I Sat Upon the River Bank - Carolina Twins
- New Orleans Is the Town I Like Best - Carolina Twins
- She Tells Me That I Am Sweet - Carolina Twins
- Mr. Brown, Here I Come - Carolina Twins
- I Truly Understand, You Love Another Man - Shortbuckle Roark & Family
- My Mother's Hands - Shortbuckle Roark & Family


5 CD box set
120 pp. hardcover book by Tony Russell & Ted Olson

Bear Family BCD-16094-5-CD (Germany 2011)

272/2016Blind Alfred Reed: Appalachian Visionary

Blind Alfred Reed - The Wreck of the Virginian
Blind Alfred Reed - I Mean to Live for Jesus
Blind Alfred Reed - You Must Unload
Blind Alfred Reed - Walking In The Way With Jesus
Blind Alfred Reed - Explosion In The Fairmount Mines
Blind Alfred Reed - Fate Of Chris Lively And Wife
Blind Alfred Reed - Why Do You Bob Your Hair, Girls
Blind Alfred Reed - Always Lift Him Up And Never Knock Him Down
Blind Alfred Reed - The Prayer Of The Drunkard's Little Girl
The West Virginia Night Owls - Sweet Bird
The West Virginia Night Owls - I'm Goin' To Walk The Streets Of Glory
Orville Reed - The Telephone Girl
Blind Alfred Reed - Woman's Been After Man Ever Since
Blind Alfred Reed - Why Do You Bob Your Hair Girls-No. 2
Blind Alfred Reed and Orville Reed - There'll Be No Distinction There
Blind Alfred Reed and Orville Reed - We've Got To Have 'Em, That's All
Blind Alfred Reed and Orville Reed - Beware
Blind Alfred Reed and Orville Reed - The Old-Fashioned Cottage
Blind Alfred Reed - How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live
Blind Alfred Reed - Black And Blue Blues
Blind Alfred Reed and Orville Reed - You'll Miss Me
Blind Alfred Reed - Money Cravin' Folks

84-pp. book by Ted Olson

Dust-to-Digital DTD-48 (US 2/2016)



Additional information appreciated !!!

 

 

Other artist's Covers of Alfred Reed songs
#year
of release
Artist
Record Title

- featured Alfred Reed song / label # / notes
12007The West Virginia Music Hall of Fame presents
Always Lift Him Up: A Tribute to Blind Alfred Reed

Little Jimmy Dickens - Woman's Been After Man Ever Since (2:40)
Mollie O'Brien - Beware (2:29)
Todd Burge - The Telephone Girl (3:51)
Ann Magnuson - Why Do You Bob Your Hair, Girls? (3:49)
The Nichols Family - Walking In The Way With Jesus (2:51)
Kathy Mattea - We've Got To Have 'Em That's All (3:32)
Larry Groce - You Must Unload (5:24)
Connie Smith - The Prayer Of The Drunkard's Little Girl (4:04)
Nat Reese - Black And Blue Blues (4:37)
The Carpenter Ants - Money Cravin' Folks (3:12)
Tim & Mollie O'Brien - You'll Miss Me (3:29)
Dwight Diller, John Morris - Always Lift Him Up And Never Knock Him Down (2:47)
Bare Bones - There'll Be No Distinction There (2:37)
John Lilly - Explosion In The Fairmount Mine (3:39)
Charlie McCoy - Fate Of Chris Lively And Wife (3:03)
Johnny Staats, Robert Shafer - Walking In The Way With Jesus (3:21)
Ray Benson - Black And Blue Blues (2:55)
Songcatchers, Everett Lill - I Mean To Live For Jesus (5:25)
Tim O'Brien - How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live (3:50)


Proper American PRPACD006

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Tony Russell: Country Music Records - A Discography, 1921-1942.- Oxford (Oxford University Press) 2004, p. 733, 734, 946
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

thanks to Tony Russell, Dave Bock, Benoît Brière and Mario Hemken for additional info / scans

 

 

 

 

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