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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
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
I. Working on The Railroad
II. The Levee Camp
III. Songs From Southern Chain Gangs
IV. Negro Bad Men
V. White Desperadoes
VI. Songs From The Mountains
VII. Cocaine and Whisky
VIII. The Blues
IX. Creole Negroes
X. "Reels"
XI. Minstrel Types
XII. Breakdowns and Play-Parties
XIII. Songs of Childhood
XIV. Miscellany
XV. Vaqueros of the Southwest
XVI. Cowboy Songs
XVII. Songs of the Overlanders
XVIII. The Miner
XIX. The Shanty-Boy
XX. The Erie Canal
XXI. The Great Lakes
XXII. Sailors and Sea Fights
XXIII. Wars and Soldiers
XXIV. White Spirituals
XXV. Negro Spirituals
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
XX. The Erie Canal