The older archives (>10 years old) have been substantially recovered -- more than 23,800 files' worth -- and are now reachable through the search engine and via file download. Email here if you have any questions.
Your support is essential if the service is to continue, there are bandwidth bills to pay every month and failing disk drives to replace. Volunteers do the work, but disk drives and bandwidth are not free. We encourage you to contribute financially, even a dollar helps. Click here to donate.
Welcome to the new Radio4all website! If you cannot log in, you may need to reset your password. Email here if you need additional support.
 
Program Information
Edge of Americana
March 29 2011
Music
 Edge of Americana  Contact Contributor
July 6, 2011, 7:44 a.m.
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

The Stanley Brothers / Finger Poppin' Time (Overdubbed Version) / The Early King & Starday Years, 1958 - 1961 / King
The Two Man Gentlemen Band / When Your Lips Are Playing My Kazoo / Heavy Petting / Serious Business
Hartman's Heartbreakers / Let Me Play With It / Baby, How Can It Be? / Dust To Digital
Frank Wakefield with Del McCoury / Play It Pretty, Me / Bluegrass Mandolin Extravaganza (Disc 2) / Acoustic Disc
Doc Watson and David Holt / Dad Taught Me To Play Harmonica / Legacy: The Legacy Concert / High Windy
Doc Watson / Doc's Guitar / The Vanguard Years / Vanguard
Béla Fleck / Polka On The Banjo / The Bluegrass Sessions: Tales From The Acoustic Planet Vol Ume II / Warner Brothers
Wayne Henderson and Helen White / Steel Guitar Rag / Live From Hendersonville / Self

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

Download Program Podcast
02:00:00 1 Jan. 1, 1
  View Script
    
 02:00:00  128Kbps mp3
(115MB) Mono
507 Download File...