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Country Music Timeline
String Band and Cowboy Years 1922-1933
Record Industry
Radio
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
Brown Collection- I. Courting Songs
Brown Collection- II. Drinking and Gambling Songs
Brown Collection- III. Homiletic Songs
Brown Collection- IV. Play-Party and Dance Songs
Brown Collection- V. Lullabies and Nursery Rhymes
Brown Collection- VI. Jingles About Animals
Brown Collection VII. Work Songs
Brown Collection- VIII. Folk Lyric
Brown Collection- IX. Satirical Songs
Brown Collection- X. Songs of Prisoners & Tramps
Brown- XI. Marital, Political & Patriotic Songs
Brown- XII. Minstrel and Secular Negro Songs
Brown Collection- XIII. Religious Songs
515. The Cumberland Traveller
516. The Great Round-Up
517. Some of These Days
518. Long White Robe
519. There's a Little Hand Writing on the Wall
520. Ananias
521. The Gospel Pool
522. A Charge To Keep
523. Creation
524. Daniel in the Lion's Den
525. Departed Loved Ones
526. Dark Was the Night
527. Don't You Grieve after Me
528. Drooping Souls, No Longer Grieve
529. The Gospel Train
530. Hicks' Farewell
531. If You Get There Before I Do
532. I'm Boun' to Cross the Jordan
533. I Am Going to Heaven
534. In the Valley
535. I've Got a Brother in the Snow-White Fields
536. Jacob's Ladder
537. Jesus Born in Bethlehem
538. John Saw the Holy Number
539. John Saw de Hundred and Forty-Four Thousand
540. Johnny Was a Baptist
541. The Little Black Train
542. The Lone Pilgrim
543. Mary Wore Three Links of Chain
544. Noah's Ark
545. Pharaoh's Army
546. Oh, They Put John on the Island
547. Rock of Ages
548. There Is No Place in the Height of Heaven
549. Ain't Goin' to Worry My Lord No More
550. All God's Chillun Got Shoes
551. All My Sins Been Taken Away
552. Angels Roll Dem Stones Away
553. As I Went Down in the Valley to Pray
554. Babe of Bethlehem
553. Baptist, Baptist Is My Name
556. Bye and Bye
557. Cain and Abel
558. Can't Cross Jordan
559. Christ Was a Weary Traveler
560. City of Refuge
561. Come All You Friends and Neighbors
562. Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
563. Dar'll Be No Distinction Dar
564. Didn't It Rain?
563. An English Orphan
566. Down by de Ribberside
567. Gwine Down to Jordan
568. God Is at de Pulpit
569. Going to Heaven by the Light of the Moon
570. Go Down, Moses
571. Golden Slippers
572. Good News — Chariot's Comin'
573. Good Lordy, Rocky My Soul
574. Good News Coming from Canaan
575. Go Wash in the Beautiful Stream
576. Gwine Down Jordan
577. Hear That Rumbling (I Heard a Mighty Rumbling
578. He Never Said a Mumbling Word
579. Heaven Is a Beautiful Place
580. Hush, Little Baby
581. I Am Bound for the Promised Land
582. I Am Going Where the Blood Flows Stronger
583. I Belong to That Band
584. I Don't Love Old Satan
585. I Don't Sing Like I Used to Sing
586. I Do Wonder Is My Mother on That Train
587. I Got de Key of de Kingdom
588. I Have Long Since Been Learned
589. I Am Standing in the Shoes of John
590. I Don't Know When Old Death's Gwineter Call
591. I'm Goin' to Ride in Pharaoh's Chariot
592. I Mean to Go to Heaven Anyhow
593. Indian Song: Ah, Pore Sinner
594. I Picked My Banjo Too
595. I'se Gwine Land on Dat Shore
596. I Shall Not Be Blue
597. It's Good fuh Hab Some Patience
598. I Wanter Jine de Ban'
599. I Was Once in a Dark and Lonesome Valley
600. I Wonder As I Wander
601. Jekkel Walls
602. Jesus Christ I Want to Find
603. Jesus Says, 'You Goes and I Goes Wid You'
604. John He Baptized Jesus
605. John Jasper
606. Judgment Day Is Comin'
607. Lily White Robe
608. Little David
609. Little David, Play on your Harp
610. The Little Family
611. Mary Bowed
612. Moses Smote the Waters
613. And Must I Be to Judgement Brought?
614. The New Burying Ground
615. Nobody Knows
616. No Hidin' Place
617. No More! No More!
618. Oh, I Used to Drink Beer
619. Oh, Lord, I'se Stepping Higher
620. Oh, Heavens Shut the Gates on Me
621. O Lord, Won't You Come by Here?
Additional Songs from Volume V
Children's Games and Rhymes Volume 5
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
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
538. John Saw the Holy Number