October 28, 2007

This week, the very first Orange Blossom Special from 1938, and a walk on the Wild Side of Life. If you can stand the excitement, join Dick Spottswood, the Stanley Brothers, Pop Stoneman, the Browns, Louvins and Alley Boys for two hours of Extravagant Obsolescence.

Artist Title Label
Stanley Brothers Suwannee River Hoedown King KBSCD-7000
Stanley Brothers The Wild Side of Life King KBSCD-7000
Kitty Wells It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels Bear Family BCD 15638
Wayne Raney The Child’s Side of Life Ace CDCHD-857
Shuk Richard Le Côte Farouche de la Vie Arhoolie CD 427
Alley Boys Of Abbeville Se Toute Sain Comme Moi Ma Saine Columbia Legacy CK 46220
Bill Monroe I Wonder If You Feel the Way I Do Bear Family BCD 16399
Lawrence Walker Wandering Aces Special Arhoolie CD 427
Tommy Magness (W/Roy Hall Blue Ridge Entertainers) Orange Blossom Special Columbia Epic Legacy J2K 65816
Tommy Magness Broadcast Excerpt, April 26, 1947 Global Village CD 1010
Louvin Brothers You’ll Forget Country Music Foundation CMF-009D
Louvin Brothers Childish Love Country Music Foundation CMF-009D
Louvin Brothers The Gospel Way Country Music Foundation CMF-009D
Stringbean Stringbean and His Banjo Gusto GT2-0956-2
Stringbean Birdie Gusto GT2-0956-2
De Ford Bailey Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy Tennessee Folklore Society TFS-122
Bailes Brothers Will the Angels Have a Sweetheart Bear Family BCD 15973
Washington Phillips I Had a Good Mother and Father Yazoo 2073
Jimmy Martin When the Savior Reached Down for Me Bear Family BCD 15705
Pop Stoneman Are You Washed In the Blood? King KG-0529-2
Frank Hovington 90 Going North Flyright CD 66
Frank Hovington Old Blue Flyright CD 66
Bill Monroe Dog House Blues Bear Family BCD 16399
Hank Williams Move It On Over Mercury 314 536 086-2
Vern & Ray Sweet Fern Arhoolie CD 524
Jimmy Trivette, Laurie Lewis &C. On My Mind Arhoolie CD 421
Georgisa Slim & Howdy Forrester Katy Hill Tri Agle Far CD TR 710
Georgisa Slim & Howdy Forrester Cindy Tri Agle Far CD TR 710
Furry Lewis Kassie Jones Frog DGF 22
Charlie Poole Bill Mason County CD-3508
Merle Travis This World Is Not My Home Bear Family BCD 15637
Maddox Brothers & Rose Beautiful Bouquet Bear Family BCD 15850

**The rest are from out-of-print sources:**

Artist Title
T. Texas Tyler Old Blue
Howdy Forrester Dog In the Rye Straw
Elder Richard Bryant’s Sanctified Singers Watch Ye, Therefore, Ye Know Not the Day
Jim Edward, Maxine & Bonnie Brown He Will Set Your Fields on Fire
Jim Eanes It’s a Weary Weary World

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