July 13, 2008
This week, a couple of rare duets from 1951 by Jimmy Martin and Bob Osborne, with members of the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers. Then Coleman Wilson gets trapped by highway radar while another hapless truck driver fights an addiction to pinball machines. The second hour highlights Jimmy Murphy, a few Jimmie Rodgers emulators (including a full-size 1928 dance orchestra playing “T for Texas,” honest!), and the blind fiddler G.B. Grayson. It’s the Obsolete Music Hour–competing claims are invariably false.
| Artist | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|
| Cliff Carlisle | Tom Cat Blues | Columbia Legacy C2K 47466 |
| Jimmy Martin & Bob Osborne | You’ll Never Be the Same | King KG-0952-4-2 |
| Jimmy Martin & Bob Osborne | She’s Just a Cute Thing | King KG-0952-4-2 |
| Blind Lemon Jefferson | Jack O’ Diamond Blues | Yazoo 2057 |
| Jimmie Rodgers & The Rainbow Ranch Boys | Mule Skinner Blues | Bear Family BCD 15540 |
| Blind Willie Mctell | Statesboro Blues | Yazoo 2071 |
| Mac Wiseman | Waitin’ For the Boys | Bear Family BCD 15976 |
| Louvin Brothers | Let Us Travel, Travel On | Bear Family BCD 15561 |
| Jimmie Williams & Red Ellis | I Saw the Angels In Heaven | King KG-0952-4-2 |
| Jimmy Murphy | Corbin Stomp | Sugar Hill SHCD-3890 |
| Jimmy Murphy | Shanty Boat Bllues | Ace CDCHD 714 |
| Jimmy Murphy | Hub Cap | Ace CDCHD 714 |
| Jimmy Murphy | Tears In the Eyes Of a Potato | Ace CDCHD 714 |
| Lead Belly | Diggin’ My Potatoes | Smithsonian Folkways CD 40045 |
| Bill Boyd’s Cowboy Ramblers | The Wind Swept Desert | Bear Family BCD 16863 |
| Nat Shilkret & The Victor Orchestra | Blue Yodel No. 1 | Bear Family BCD 16863 |
| Merle Travis | Blue Yodel No. 1 | Bear Family BCD 16863 |
| King Oliver’s Orchestra | Everyody Does It In Hawaii | Bear Family BCD 16863 |
| Webb Pierce | In the Jailhouse Now | Bear Family BCD 16863 |
| Memphis Jug Band | In the Jailhouse Now | Bear Family BCD 16863 |
| G.B. Grayson–Henry Whitter | Going Down the Lee Highway | County CD-3517 |
| Everly Brothers | Down In the Willow Garden | Rhino R2 70212 |
| Ralph Stanley | On the Banks Of the Old Tennessee | Rebel CD-1735 |
| Molly O’day | A Hero’s Death | Bear Family BCD 15565 |
| Bill Monroe | Train 45 (Headin’ South) | Bear Family BCD 15529 |
| G.B. Grayson–Henry Whitter | Train Forty-Five | County CD-3517 |
The following are from out of print sources:
| Artist | Title |
|---|---|
| Jim Eanes (Allen Shelton-Banjo) | Lady of Spain |
| Betty Amos | Eighteen Wheels a-Rolling |
| Coleman M. Wilson | Radar Blues, Parts 1 & 2 |
| Lonnie Irving | Pinball Machine |
| Tommy Jarrell | Drunken hiccoughs |
| Charlie Lincoln | Chain Gang Trouble |
| “Texas” Alexander | Section Gang Blues |
| Mississippi Sheiks | Yodeling Fiddling Blues |
| Jim Eanes | Nobody’s Darling On Earth |
| Jim Eanes | Step It Up and Go |
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