Various – The Bristol Sessions 1927 – 1928 – Country Music’s Big Bang – 4CD

The Bristol sessions are considered the "Big Bang" of modern country music. They were held in 1927 in Bristol, Tennessee by Victor Talking Machine Company producer Ralph Peer. Bristol was one of the stops on a two-month, $60,000 trip that took Peer through several major southern cities and yielded important recordings of blues, ragtime, gospel, ballads, topical songs, and string bands. The Bristol Sessions marked the commercial debuts of Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family. As a result of the influence of these recording sessions, Bristol has been called the "birthplace of country music". Since 2014, the town has been home to the Birthplace of Country Music Museum. (wikipedia)

Track Listing:

CD1: 1927-1928
Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Quartet: 1. Don't Grieve After Me - 3:14   2. I Want To Go Where Jesus is - 2:59   The Blue Ridge Corn Shuckers: 3. Old Time Corn Shuckin', Pt. 1 - 2:57   4. Old Time Corn Shuckin', Pt. 2 - 3:29   Blind Alfred Reed: 5. Walking In the Way With Jesus - 3:05   6. The Wreck of the Virginian - 2:59   Alfred G. Karnes: 7. I Am Bound For the Promised Land - 3:15   8. Where We'll Never Grow Old - 3:20   Ernest V. Stoneman & His Dixie Mountaineers: 9. Are You Washed In the Blood? - 3:22   10. Sweeping Through the Gates - 3:08   B.F. Shelton: 11. Pretty Polly - 4:31   12. Darling Cora - 3:52   Tennessee Mountaineers: 13. Standing On the Promises - 2:42   14. At the River - 2:53   The Tenneva Ramblers: 15. The Longest Train I Ever Saw - 3:07   16. Sweet Heaven When I Die - 3:03   West Virginia Coonhunters: 17. Greasy String - 2:51   18. Your Blue Eyes Run Me Crazy - 3:18   Mr. & Mrs. J.W. Baker: 19. The Newmarket Wreck - 3:02   20. On the Banks of the Sunny Tennessee - 3:11   The Shelor Family: 21. Billy Grimes the Rover - 2:47   22. Big Bend Gal - 2:48   Henry Whitter: 23. Henry Whitter's Fox Chase - 3:12   24. Rain Crow Bill - 3:01

CD2: 1927-1928
Alcoa Quartet: 1. Remember Me, O Mighty One - 3:00   2. I'm Redeemed - 3:09   Ernest V. Stoneman & Irma Frost: 3. Mountaineer's Courtship - 2:49   Uncle Eck Dunford: 4. Whip-Poor-Will's Song - 2:59   The Johnson Brothers: 5. The Soldier's Poor Little Boy - 2:43   6. Just a Message From Carolina - 3:11   Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Quartet: 7. Do, Lord, Remember Me - 3:14   8. Old Ship of Zion - 3:08   El Watson: 9. Pot Licker Blues - 2:52   Alfred G. Karnes: 10. When They Ring the Golden Bells - 3:07   11. To the Work - 3:00   Uncle Eck Dunford: 12. Skip To Ma Lou, My Darling - 2:53   13. Barney McCoy - 2:54   Blind Alfred Reed: 14. I Mean To Live For Jesus - 3:01   15. You Must Unload - 3:05   J. P. Nester: 16. Train On the Island - 3:03   17. Black-Eyed Susie - 2:58   Ernest V. Stoneman & His Dixie Mountaineers: 18. The Resurrection - 3:17   19. I Am Resolved - 3:02 Ernest V. Stoneman, E.K. Brewer, M. Mooney: 20. Dying Girl's Farewell - 3:07   21. Tell Mother I Will Meet Her - 2:58   Dad Blackard's Moonshiners: 22. Suzanna Gal - 3:14   23. Sandy River Belle - 3:32   Bull Mountain Moonshiners: 24. Johnny Goodwin - 2:55   The Tenneva Ramblers: 25. Miss Liza, Poor Gal - 2:40

CD3: 1927-1928
Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers: 1. Jesus is Getting Us Ready For That Great Day - 3:15   2. Happy In Prison - 3:19 Ernest V. Stoneman & His Dixie Mountaineers: 3. I Know My Name is There - 3:06   4. No More Good-Byes - 2:46   The Johnson Brothers: 5. The Jealous Sweetheart - 3:14   6. Two Brothers Are We (From East Tennessee) - 2:53   Uncle Eck Dunford: 7. What Will I Do, For My Money's All Gone - 3:23   B.F. Shelton: 8. Cold Penitentiary Blues - 3:30   9. O Molly Dear - 3:04   Alfred G. Karnes: 10. Called To the Foreign Field - 3:12   11. Do Not Wait 'til I'm Laid Beneath the Clay - 2:59   Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers: 12. If the Light Has Gone Out In Your Soul - 3:03   13. Bright Tomorrow - 2:56   Alfred G. Karnes: 14. Days of My Childhood Plays - 2:42   15. We Shall All Be Reunited - 3:01   Shortbuckle Roark & Family: 16. I Truly Understand, You Love Another Man - 2:53   17. My Mother's Hands - 3:16   The Stoneman Family: 18. The Broken Hearted Lover - 2:38   19. We Parted By the Riverside - 3:08   Uncle Eck Dunford: 20. Angeline the Baker - 2:48   21. Old Shoes and Leggin's - 3:08   The Stoneman Family: 22. Down To Jordan and Be Saved - 2:56   23. There's a Light Lit Up In Galilee - 2:46   Smyth County Ramblers: 24. My Name is Ticklish Reuben - 2:45   25. Way Down In Alabama - 2:43

CD4: 1927-1928
Ernest Phipps & His Congregation: 1. A Little Talk With Jesus - 2:51   2. Went Up In the Clouds of Heaven - 2:45   3. I Know That Jesus Set Me Free - 2:45   4. Shine On Me - 3:05   Carolina Twins: 5. Where is My Mama - 3:02   6. When You Go a Courtin' - 2:36   7. I Sat Upon the River Bank - 2:53   8. Mr Brown Here I Come - 2:57   The Stoneman Family: 9. Going Up the Mountain After Liquor, Pt. 1 - 2:43   10. Going Up the Mountain After Liquor, Pt. 2 - 3:07   11. The Spanish Merchant's Daughter - 3:16   12. Too Late - 3:30   Carolina Twins: 13. New Orleans is the Town I Like Best - 2:26   14. She Tells Me That I Am Sweet - 2:40   Clarence Greene: 15. Goodnight, Darling - 2:35   16. Little Bunch of Roses - 2:44   The Smith Brothers: 17. My Mother is Waiting For Me In Heaven Above - 2:58   18. She Has Climbed the Golden Stairs - 3:34   Howard & Peak: 19. I Cannot Be Your Sweetheart - 2:47   20. Three Black Sheep - 3:28