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Various Artists: Tell It To Me - The Johnson City Sessions - Revisted (CD)

VARIOUS ARTISTS
TELL IT TO ME: REVISITING THE JOHNSON CITY SESSIONS, 1928-1929
Bear Family Productions
BCD17591

1-CD with 40-page booklet, 26 tracks. Total playing time approx. 77:27 minutes.
Released in August 2019 in conjunction with the 90th Anniversary celebration of the Johnson City sessions, ''Tell It To Me: Revisiting the Johnson City Sessions, 1928-1929’ is intended to demonstrate what music historian Ed Ward meant when he tweeted "Johnson City Sessions: Lots more fun than the Bristol Sessions. Fewer stars, more insight into a vanished world.'' 
Intended to distill onto a single CD the groundbreaking research found on Bear Family Records' award-winning 4-CD boxed set ‚The Johnson City Sessions: Can You Sing or Play Old-Time Music?’ (BCD 16083), released in 2013, ’Tell It To Me’ offers 26 essential highlights from Columbia Records' historically significant location recording sessions in Johnson City, Tennessee, in 1928 and 1929.
Recordings of this compilation album include some of the most iconic and influential recordings from the 1920s, including Clarence Ashley's original recording of The Coo-Coo Bird, Charlie Bowman's Roll On, Buddy, Byrd Moore and His Hot Shots' Three Men Went A Hunting, Bill and Belle Reed's Old Lady And The Devil,and the Bentley Boys' Down On Penny's Farm
’Tell It To Me’ features a new essay in which Grammy Award-nominated liner notes writer Ted Olson describes the Johnson City sessions, sets them into historical context, and assesses their lasting historical impact.  
Because ’Tell It To Me’ showcases the usual state-of-the-art sound engineering generally associated with releases from Bear Family, these nine-decade-old recordings sound warm and clear--as if they were made yesterday.

Featuring 26 recordings by 26 different musical acts that were active in the late 1920s, ’Tell It To Me’ presents a diverse and dynamic overview of Appalachia's vernacular music at the cusp of the Great Depression. While representing a range of genres and styles and showcasing both secular and sacred material, this album is thematically unified by the fact that all of the tracks hail from commercial location recording sessions held by Columbia Records in Johnson City, Tennessee, during successive Octobers in 1928 and 1929. With 25% of the released sides from those two Johnson City recording forays, ’Tell It To Me’ documents timeless performances from the 1928-1929 sessions and bolsters recent assertions by discerning aficionados of 78 RPM records that those sessions generated a particularly memorable canon of historical recordings.  

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Various - Bear Family Records - Tell It To Me - The Johnson City Sessions - Revisted (CD) CD 1
01Tell It To MeGrant Brothers & Their Music
02Home Town BluesRoane County Ramblers
03Johnson City BluesClarence Greene
04LouiseProximity String Quartet
05The Battleship MaineRichard Harold
06Roll On BuddyCharlie Bowman & His Brothers
07Old Lady And The DevilBill & Belle Reed
08I'll Be Ready When The Bridegroom ComesMcVay & Johnson
09When The Roses Bloom for the BootleggerEarl Shirkey & Roy Harper
10I Ain't A Bit DrunkGeorge Roark
11Just Over The RiverGarland Brothers & Grinstead
12Green Valley WaltzMcCartt Brothers & Patterson
13Pride Of The BallBlalock & Yates
14When We Go A-Courtin'George Wade & Francum Braswell
15I'm Just A Black SheepJack Jackson
16EvalinaWyatt & Brandon
17Just Pickin'Roy Harvey & Leonard Copeland
18God Will Take Care Of YouThe Spindale Quartet
19Moatsville BluesMoatsville String Ticklers
20Three Men Went A-HuntingByrd Moore & His Hot Shots
21The Coo-Coo BirdClarence Ashley
22Down On Penny's FarmThe Bentley Boys
23Old Lonesome BluesBowman Sisters
24The Last Gold DollarEphraim Woodie & The Henpecked Husbands
25Powder And PaintIra & Eugene Yates
26Buttermilk BluesEllis Williams
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9 Dec 2019

Despite this evocation, this music feels as fresh today as ever.

At first glance, some of the included tracks here make it seem obvious why the Bristol Sessions are considered seminal and these are not so well known. The Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers are perhaps more individual in hindsight and their influence can be traced clearly and strong through the generations of future artists and musicians. However, here we find examples of the music of the people, which is as fine and representative of the people of the day living in those rural areas as was the work of the Carters and Rodgers.
There is quite a shortage of female voice here. That is possibly the only thing which sticks out as unusual. Otherwise, the 26 artist names also bring to mind charmingly a bygone world. There are names and song titles which bring vibrancy and life to a time long gone. Despite this evocation, this music feels as fresh today as ever.

9 Dec 2019

Despite this evocation, this music feels as fresh today as ever.

At first glance, some of the included tracks here make it seem obvious why the Bristol Sessions are considered seminal and these are not so well known. The Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers are perhaps more individual in hindsight and their influence can be traced clearly and strong through the generations of future artists and musicians. However, here we find examples of the music of the people, which is as fine and representative of the people of the day living in those rural areas as was the work of the Carters and Rodgers.
There is quite a shortage of female voice here. That is possibly the only thing which sticks out as unusual. Otherwise, the 26 artist names also bring to mind charmingly a bygone world. There are names and song titles which bring vibrancy and life to a time long gone. Despite this evocation, this music feels as fresh today as ever.

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Tracklist
Various - Bear Family Records - Tell It To Me - The Johnson City Sessions - Revisted (CD) CD 1
01 Tell It To Me
02 Home Town Blues
03 Johnson City Blues
04 Louise
05 The Battleship Maine
06 Roll On Buddy
07 Old Lady And The Devil
08 I'll Be Ready When The Bridegroom Comes
09 When The Roses Bloom for the Bootlegger
10 I Ain't A Bit Drunk
11 Just Over The River
12 Green Valley Waltz
13 Pride Of The Ball
14 When We Go A-Courtin'
15 I'm Just A Black Sheep
16 Evalina
17 Just Pickin'
18 God Will Take Care Of You
19 Moatsville Blues
20 Three Men Went A-Hunting
21 The Coo-Coo Bird
22 Down On Penny's Farm
23 Old Lonesome Blues
24 The Last Gold Dollar
25 Powder And Paint
26 Buttermilk Blues