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String Band and Cowboy Years 1922-1933
Record Industry
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Ralph Peer- A & R Man for OKeh and Victor
Frank Walker- A & R Man for Columbia
Eck Robertson- 1922
Henry Whitter- 1923
Fiddlin' John Carson- 1923
Riley Puckett- 1924
Samantha Bumgarner and Eva Davis
Ernest Thompson
Vernon Dalhart & Carson Robison
Uncle Dave Macon
Ernest Stoneman
Roba Stanley
Kelly Harrell- 1925
The Hill Billies; Al Hopkins and His Buckle Buster
Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers
Carl T. Sprague
Gid Tanner and The Skillet Lickers- 1926
Otto Gray and his Cowboy Band
Burnett and Rutherford
Carolina Tar Heels- 1927
Earl Johnson and His Dixie Entertainers
Allen Brothers
The Carter Family
Jimmie Rodgers
Bradley Kincaid
Harry “Haywire Mac” McClintock- 1928
Jimmie Davis
Gene Autry
Cliff Carlisle/Bill Carlisle/Carlisle Brothers
Eli Oberstein- A & R Man for Bluebird
Delmore Brothers
Tex Ritter
Western Swing & Honky Tonk Years 1933-1948
Red Foley 1933
Light Crust Doughboys 1933
Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies 1934
Sons of the Pioneers/ Roy Rogers 1934
Ray Whitley 1934
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys 1935
J.E. Mainer/ Mainer’s Mountaineers 1935
Monroe Brothers: Bill Monroe; Charlie Monroe 1936
Blue Sky Boys 1936
Roy Acuff 1936
Ernest Tubb 1936
Al Dexter 1936
The Coon Creek Girls 1938
Ted Daffan’s Texans 1940
Edden Hammons; Hammons Family
Stamper Family- Hiram; Charlie; Art
Nathan Hicks; Frank Proffitt; Hicks Family
Roots, Old-time & Bluegrass Articles
Roots; Old-time; Folk; Bluegrass Books
- Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs- Shearin & Combs
- Brown Collection of NC Folklore- Volume 3
- The Negro and his Songs- Odum & Johnson 1925
- The Negro Sings A New Heaven- Grissom 1930
- Negro Workaday Songs- Odum & Johnson 1926
- English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians
- American Songbag- Carl Sandburg 1927
- Afro-American Folksongs; Henry Krehbiel 1914
- On The Trail Of Negro Folk-Songs; Scarborough
- American Ballads and Folk Songs- John & Alan Lomax
- Negro Folk Rymes- Wise and Otherwise- Talley
- Our Singing Country- John A. Lomax & Alan Lomax
- Bahama Songs and Stories- Charles Edwards 1895
- Brown Collection of NC Folklore- Volume 2 Ballads
- Checklist of Recorded Folk Songs Before 1940
- The Kentucky Highlanders- Josiah Combs 1913
- Collection of Revival Hymns & Plantation Melodies
- Poetic Origins and the Ballad- Louise Pound 1921
- American Ballads and Songs- Louise Pound 1922
- The British Traditional Ballad in North America
- Folk-Songs of the South- John Harrington Cox 1925
- The Southern Mountaineer in Fact and Fiction
- A Pioneer Songster- Douglass 1841-1856 Thompson
- Folk-Song of Nebraska & Central West- A Syllabus
- Songs and Ballads of the Maine Lumberjacks- Gray
- Ballads and Sea Songs of Newfoundland- Greenleaf
- Eastern Tennessee & Western Virginia Mtn Ballads
- Hand-Me-Down Songs (Union Co., NC)- Helms
- Memory Melodies- Middle TN Folk-Songs- 1947
- Traditional Ballads & Folk Songs Mainly from WV
  - 1A. The False Sir John- Lingo (IN) 1926 (Child 4)
  - 1B. Six King's Daughters- Sanders (WV) 1924
  - 2A. There Was An Old Farmer- McCue (WV) 1925
  - 2B. All Bow Down- Cooke (WV) 1926 (Child 10)
  - 3. The Jealous Lover- Caldwell (WV) 1928 (Child 10
  - 4. Edward- Dennis (KY) 1922 (Child 13)
  - The Crow Song- McClure (WV) 1927 (Child 26)
  - 6. The Two Brothers- Williams (WV) 1927 (Child 49)
  - 7A. A Turkish Lady- Dennis (KY) 1922 (Child 53)
  - 7B. Turkish Lady- Sutherland (KY) 1925 (Child 53)
  - 7C. Lord Wetram- Sanders (WV) 1924 (Child 53)
  - 8A. Lord Lovell- Morgan/Hays (WV) 1924 (Child 75)
  - 8B. Lord Lovell- Hardaman (VA) 1926 (Child 75)
  - 8C. Lord Lovel (Parody) - Mairs (PA-LA) 1926
  - 9. Slack Your Rope- Caldwell (WV) 1928 (Child 95)
  - 10A. Gypsy Davy- Sanderson (OH) 1925 (Child 200)
  - 10B. Raggle Taggle Gypsies O- Manassee(WV) 1925
  - 10C. Wraggle Taggle Gypsies, O- Dennis (KY) 1922
  - 11- Leezie Lindsay- McClure (WV) 1928 (Child 226)
  - 12A- The House Carpenter- Newsome (WV) 1910
  - 12B- The House Carpenter- Williams (WV) 1927
  - 12C- House Carpenter's Wife- Hewitt (WV) 1924
  - 12D- The House Carpenter- Nestor (WV) 1926
  - 13A- Wife Wrapped- Dennis (KY) 1922 (Child 277)
  - 13B- Wife Wrapped- Rogers (WV) 1926 (Child 277)
  - 13C- Dandoo- Esary (IN) 1917
  - 14 - The Jolly Beggar- Dixon (CA) 1929 (Child 279)
  - 15A- The Golden Vanity- Sutherland (KY) 1925
  - 15B. The Mary Golden Lee- Dennis (KY) 1922
  - 15C. The Green Willow Tree- Burgess (WV) 1927
  - 16. The Merchant's Daughter- Sanders (WV) 1924
  - 17A. Pretty Polly- Sutherland (KY) 1925
  - 17B. Pretty Polly- Jarrell (WV) 1926
  - 17C. Come, Polly, Pretty Polly- Sisson (CA) 1928
  - 18. 'Twas Early in the Spring- Fortney (WV) 1914
  - 19. Fair Caroline- Sanders (WV) 1924
  - 20. The Farmer and his Bride- Scholee (CA) 1849
  - 21A. Poor Man, O Poor Man- Webb (OH) 1928
  - 21B. There Was a Rich Englishman- Hager (WV)
  - 22. Babes in the Wood- Hewitt (WV) 1924
  - 23. The Wealthy Merchant- Bell (WV) 1918
  - 24A. The Nightingale- Sutherland (KY) 1925
  - 24B. One Morning in May- Williams (CA) 1927
  - 24C. One Morning in May- Cooke (WV) 1926
  - 25. The Modesty Answer- Hatfield (WV) 1928
  - 26. Grandma- Hinkel (PA) 1927
  - 27. Mary of the Wild Moor- Sisson (CA) 1928
  - 28. Soldier's Poor Little Boy- Sisson (CA) 1928
  - 29. The Boston Burglar- Tamblyn (WV) 1927
  - 1A. The Rowan County Crew- Crooke (CA-KY) 1929
  - 1B- The Rowan County Crew- Crooke (CA-KY) 1928
  - 1C. The Rowan County Crew- Johnson (WV) 1927
  - 2A. Wreck of the Old Southern Nintey-Seven- 1925
  - 2B. Wreck of the Old 97- McCue (WV) 1925
  - 3A. Springfield Mountain- Hill (MA) 1878
  - 3B. Springfield Mountain- Bush (WV)
  - 3C. The Venomous Black Snake- Gallup (RI) 1929
  - 4A. Fair Charlotte- Sisson (CA) 1928
  - 4B. Young Charlotte- Cooke (WV) 1926
  - 5A. The Jealous Lover- Hamrick (WV) 1927
  - 5B. Blue-Eyed Ellen- Jarrell (WV) 1926
  - 6A. McAfee's Confession- Hemrick (WV) 1927
  - 6B. McAfee's Confession- Lambert (WV) 1925
  - 7. Jam at Gerry's Rock- Hamrick (WV) 1927
  - 8A. The Dying Cowboy- Hamrick (WV) 1927
  - 8B. The Dying Cowboy- Blum (CA) 1923
  - 9. The Lone Prairie- Hamrick (WV) 1927
  - 10. The Dying Ranger- Hamrick (WV) 1927
  - 11. A Soldier's Life- McCue (WV) 1925
  - 12A. The Pretty Mohee- Caldwell (WV) 1928
  - 12B. The Little Maumee- Sisson (CA) 1929
  - 12C. The Prety Mohee- Sutherland (KY) 1925
  - 13. Old Smoky- Sutherland (KY) 1925
  - 14. A Warning To Girls- Caldwell (WV) 1928
  - 15. You Can't Come Again- Sanders (WV) 1924
  - 16. Old Maid Song- Dennis (KY) 1922
  - 17. The Twelve Apostles- Hamrick (WV) 1925
  - 18A. The Miller and his Sons- Williams (WV) 1927
  - 18B. The Miller- Stalnaker (WV) 1925
  - 19A. The Foolish Boy- Sutherland (KY) 1925
  - 19B. Johnny Bobeens- Wilhelm (WV)
  - 20. Porquoi- Evans (MO-KY) 1922
  - 21. The Fox- Jones (WV) c. 1850
  - 22A. Mr. Mouse Went A-Courting- Woofter (WV) 1924
  - 22B. The Frog and the Mouse- McGregor (CA) 1927
  - 22C. Frog Went A-Courting- Moore (NY)
  - 22D. A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go- Williams (WV)
  - 22E. Frog Went A-Courting- Dennis (KY) 1922
  - 23. Aunt Jemima's Plaster- Bowman (TN) c.1845
  - 24A. Joe Bowers- Williams (WV) 1927
  - 24B. Joe Bowers- Nestor (WV) 1926
  - 25. Revolutionary Tea- Shannon (WV) 1926
  - 26. My Old Brown Coat and Me- Cox (WV) 1918
  - 27. The Prisoner's Song- McCue (WV) 1925
  - 28A. A Little Rosewood Casket- Poe (WV) 1926
  - 28B. A Little Rosewood Casket- Hamrick (WV) 1925
  - 29. The Blind Child's Prayer- Edwards (WV) 1927
  - 30. The Gypsy's Warning- Sisson (CA) 1927
  - 31A. Temperance Song- Sisson (CA) 1927
  - 31B. The Drunkard- Jones (WV) 1926
  - 32. Drunkard's Ragged Wee Ane- Walker (CA) 1927
  - 33. Poor Little Joe- Sisson (CA) 1927
  - 34. The Arkansaw Traveler- Sanders (WV) 1924
  - 35. Off She Goes- Sanders (WV) 1924
- Songs & Ballads Sung in Overton County, TN 1936
- Ballad of Lady Isabel & theFalse Knight- Kemppinen
- John Henry: A Folk-Lore Study- Louis Chappell 1932
Song Collectors; Ballad Baggers and such
Roots Recordings
Collected Works of Richard L. Matteson Jr.
Biographies of Informants and some Collectors A-B
Biographies of Informants and some Collectors C-D
Biographies of Informants and some Collectors E-F
Biographies of Informants and some Collectors G-H
Biographies of Informants & some Collectors I-J-K
Biographies of Informants and some Collectors L-M
Biographies of Informants & some Collectors N-O-P
Biographies of Informants & some Collectors Q-R-S
Biographies of Informants & some Collectors T-U-V
Biographies of Informants & Collectors W-X-Y-Z
Indian River Lagoon- Florida, USA

1B- The Rowan County Crew- Crooke (CA-KY) 1928

1B- The Rowan County Crew- Crooke (CA-KY) 1928

1B - THE ROWAN COUNTY CREW

Contributed by Mr. C. C. Crooke, Modesto California, January 14th, 1928. Learned in Kentucky. Music noted by Miss Jessie Kline.

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