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The Bristol Sessions 1927 - 1928 - The Big Bang Of Country Music (5-CD)
5-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 120-page hardcover book. 124 tracks. Playing time approx. 6 hrs 25 mns.

Double nominations for the 54th GRAMMY Awards ('Best Historical Album', 'Best Album Notes') for The Bristol Sessions.

'The single most important event in the history of country music.' (JOHNNY CASH, on the 1927 Bristol sessions). This is the foundation of country music! An unsurpassed storehouse of traditional American music, featuring the first recordings by the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers. The legendary Bristol Sessions issued complete for the first and only time, including the ultra-rare follow-up sessions from 1928!

The recording trip made by Victor Records to Bristol, Tennessee in July-August 1927 was a defining moment in country music. Producer Ralph Peer found two acts that acquired national and international fame: Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family. But more than a hundred other recordings were made at the Bristol sessions of 1927 and '28. There were ballad singers, street evangelists, string bands, gospel quartets, harmonica virtuosos, Holiness preachers, blues guitarists and rural storytellers. A snapshot of rural American music was caught in an era of rapid change: pictures of a past almost beyond recall, but preserved for ever in these magnificent recordings.

The five CDs in this set gather every surviving recording from these sessions, including alternative takes. The accompanying 120-page, LP-sized hardcover book contains newly researched essays on the background to the sessions and on the individual artists, with many rare and unpublished photographs. Also included are complete song lyrics and a detailed discography, illustrated with reproductions of the original recording sheets.

The ,Bristol Sessions...

On the morning of Wednesday, July 27, an editor of the 'Bristol News Bulletin' sat in the makeshift recording studio listening to Stoneman and other members of his family perform some traditional songs, including the well-known children's song Skip To Ma Lou, My Darling. At the outset of the Bristol sessions, Peer was concerned that he had not initiated sufficient advance publicity for his recording activities, of the 19 acts who would record at Bristol in 1927, he had signed only 10 before the sessions began. In order to increase community involvement in his work, Peer invited the newspaperman to watch a recording, hoping that he would be prompted to write about it. The editor duly did so in that evening's edition. He was particularly impressed that Stoneman and his family and friends were earning a substantial amount of money at the sessions: "The quartette costs the Victor company close to $200 per day—Stoneman receiving $100, and each of his assistants $25. Stoneman is regarded as one of the finest banjoists in the country, his numbers selling rapidly. He is a carpenter and song leader at Galax. He received from the company $3,600 last year as his share of the proceeds on his records." For comparison, the average annual wage in 1927 was $1000 a year—and considerably less in the rural South.

According to Peer, "The story worked like dynamite and the very next day I was deluged with long-distance telephone calls from the surrounding mountain region. Groups of singers who had not visited Bristol during their entire lifetime arrived by bus, horse, and buggy, train or on foot." Not all of the people who journeyed to Bristol passed Peer's audition, yet among the musicians who learned about the sessions from the newspaper article (whether the original or a syndicated republication) were such acts as the Alcoa Quartet, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Baker, the Bull Mountain Moonshiners, the West Virginia Coon Hunters, and three Kentucky-based musicians: Ernest Phipps, Alfred G. Karnes, and B. F. Shelton. The most significant act to hear about the sessions from the article, though, was a stringband comprising four musicians who had recently been performing around Asheville, North Carolina. Three of them—brothers Claude and Jack Grant and Jack Pierce—were from Bristol, and they learned about the recording opportunity there from Pierce's family. The fourth member of the group was its lead singer, the future country music luminary Jimmie Rodgers, from Meridian, Mississippi.

Several musicians involved in the Bristol project were gathered by other means. Weeks before the sessions were to begin, Peer had contacted two acts he had already recorded, to invite them to participate: Ernest Stoneman, and the Johnson Brothers, a duet that featured a Hawaiian steel guitar. Additionally, in June 1927, Peer made a scouting trip to Bristol in advance of the sessions, at this time, a local Victrola dealer, Cecil McClister, connected Peer with the Carter Family, a group based in nearby Maces Spring, Virginia. McClister also advised Peer to record a West Virginia-based musician, Blind Alfred Reed. Henry Whitter, an established performer whom Peer had recorded for OKeh, came to Bristol from his home in Fries, Virginia, at Peer's personal invitation.
v The 1927 Bristol sessions lasted from July 25 to August 5. Peer recorded 19 separate acts and obtained 76 items, 69 of which were issued. Today, these recordings—even those by now obscure musicians—are generally judged to have been technically excellent for the era in which they were made. Utilizing state-of-the-art equipment (notably, the recently introduced Western Electric microphones), Peer and his engineers ensured that the sound quality improved upon that of previous 'old-time' recordings. Even more importantly, two of the most influential acts in country music history, Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family, made their first recordings during the Bristol sessions.

Music historian Charles K. Wolfe, who analyzed the sessions, asserted that, of the 76 recordings made by Peer in 1927, approximately 35 featured music that could be considered 'traditional,' the remainder capturing music that originated from commercial sources. According to Wolfe, 31 of the 76 recordings were sacred songs, of the rest, 34 were secular-themed songs, seven instrumentals, and four stringband dance tunes with incidental lyrics.

Victor would release all but seven of the recordings made at the 1927 Bristol sessions, and several of those records sold remarkably well. Some of the more well-received releases from the sessions were gospel numbers by Ernest Phipps and Alfred G. Karnes, while best-selling secular numbers included the Carter Family's Single Girl, Married Girl, which was coupled with the now classic country music standard The Storms Are On The Ocean. ,

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Various - Country Music History - The Bristol Sessions - The Big Bang Of Country Music (5-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 1
01 The Dying Girl's Farewell Stoneman, Ernest V. û E. Kahle
02 Tell Mother I Will Meet Her Stoneman, Ernest V. û E. Kahle
03 The Mountaineer's Courtship Stoneman, Ernest V. - Miss Irm
04 Midnight On The Stormy Deep Stoneman, Ernest V. - Miss Irm
05 Sweeping Through The Gates Stoneman, Ernest V. & His Dixi
06 I Know My Name Is There Stoneman, Ernest V. & His Dixi
07 Are You Washed In The Blood? Stoneman, Ernest V. & His Dixi
08 No More Good-Byes Stoneman, Ernest V. & His Dixi
09 The Resurrection (take 1) Stoneman, Ernest V. & His Dixi
10 The Resurrection (take 2) Stoneman, Ernest V. & His Dixi
11 I Am Resolved (take 1) Stoneman, Ernest V. & His Dixi
12 I Am Resolved (take 2) Stoneman, Ernest V. & His Dixi
13 I Want To Go Where Jesus Is Phipps, Ernest and His Holines
14 Do, Lord, Remember Me Phipps, Ernest and His Holines
15 Old Ship Of Zion Phipps, Ernest and His Holines
16 Jesus Getting Us Ready For That Great Day Phipps, Ernest and His Holines
17 Happy In Prison Phipps, Ernest and His Holines
18 Don't Grieve After Me Phipps, Ernest and His Holines
19 What Will I Do, For My Money's All Gone Dunford, Uncle Eck û Hattie St
20 The Whip-poor-will's Song Dunford, Uncle Eck
21 Skip To Ma Lou, My Darling Dunford, Uncle Eck
22 Barney McCoy Dunford, Uncle Eck û Ernest St
23 Old Time Corn ShuckinÆ, Part 1 Blue Ridge Corn Shuckers
24 Old Time Corn ShuckinÆ, Part 2 Blue Ridge Corn Shuckers
Various - Country Music History - The Bristol Sessions - The Big Bang Of Country Music (5-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 2
01 The Jealous Sweetheart (take 1) Johnson Brothers
02 The Jealous Sweetheart (take 2) Johnson Brothers
03 A Passing Policeman Johnson Brothers
04 Just A Message From Carolina Johnson Brothers
05 The Wreck Of the Virginian (take 1) Reed, Blind Alfred
06 The Wreck Of the Virginian (take 2) Reed, Blind Alfred
07 I Mean To Live For Jesus Reed, Blind Alfred
08 You Must Unload Reed, Blind Alfred
09 Walking in the Way With Jesus (take 1) Reed, Blind Alfred
10 Walking in the Way With Jesus (Take 2) Reed, Blind Alfred
11 Two Brothers Are We Johnson Brothers with Tennesse
12 The Soldier's Poor Little Boy Johnson Brothers with Tennesse
13 I Want to See My Mother (Ten Thousand Miles A Johnson Brothers
14 Pot Liquor Blues El Watson
15 Narrow Gauge Blues El Watson
16 Cold Penitentiary Blues Shelton, B. F.
17 Oh Molly Dear Shelton, B. F.
18 Pretty Polly Shelton, B. F.
19 Darling Cora Shelton, B. F.
20 Called To The Foreign Field Karnes, Alfred G.
21 I Am Bound For The Promised Land Karnes, Alfred G.
22 Where We'll Never Grow Old Karnes, Alfred G.
23 When They Ring The Golden Bells Karnes, Alfred G.
24 To The Work Karnes, Alfred G.
25 Train On The Island Nester, J. P.
26 Black-Eyed Susie Nester, J. P.
27 Johnny Goodwin Bull Mountain Moonshiners
Various - Country Music History - The Bristol Sessions - The Big Bang Of Country Music (5-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 3
01 Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow Carter Family, The
02 Little Log Cabin By The Sea Carter Family, The
03 The Poor Orphan Child Carter Family, The
04 The Storms Are On The Ocean Carter Family, The
05 Single Girl, Married Girl Carter Family, The
06 The Wandering Boy Carter Family, The
07 Remember Me, O Mighty One Alcoa Quartet
08 I'm Redeemed Alcoa Quartet
09 Henry Whitter's Fox Chase Whitter, Henry
10 Rain Crow Bill Whitter, Henry
11 Big Bend Gal Shelor Family, The
12 Suzanna Gal Shelor Family, The
13 Sandy River Belle (take 1) Shelor Family, The
14 Sandy River Belle (take 2) Shelor Family, The
15 Billy Grimes, The Rover Shelor Family, The
16 The Newmarket Wreck Baker, Mr. & Mrs. J. W.
17 On The Banks Of The Sunny Tennessee Baker, Mr. & Mrs. J. W.
18 The SoldierÆs Sweetheart Rodgers, Jimmie
19 Sleep Baby Sleep Rodgers, Jimmie
20 The Longest Train I Ever Saw Tenneva Ramblers
21 Sweet Heaven When I Die Tenneva Ramblers
22 Miss ÆLiza, Poor Gal Tenneva Ramblers
23 Greasy String West Virginia Coon Hunters
24 Your Blue Eyes Run Me Crazy West Virginia Coon Hunters
25 Standing On The Promises Tennessee Mountaineers
26 Shall We Gather At The River Tennessee Mountaineers
Various - Country Music History - The Bristol Sessions - The Big Bang Of Country Music (5-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 4
01 My Name Is Ticklish Reuben Smyth County Ramblers
02 Way Down In Alabama Smyth County Ramblers
03 Do Not Wait 'Till I'm Laid 'Neath The Clay Karnes, Alfred G.
04 The Days Of My Childhood Plays Karnes, Alfred G.
05 We Shall All Be Reunited Karnes, Alfred G.
06 If The Light Has Gone Out In Your Soul Phipps, Ernest and his Holines
07 Went Up In The Clouds Of Heaven Phipps, Ernest and his Holines
08 I Know That Jesus Set Me Free Phipps, Ernest and his Holines
09 Shine On Me Phipps, Ernest and his Holines
10 Bright Tomorrow Phipps, Ernest and his Holines
11 A Little Talk With Jesus Phipps, Ernest and his Holines
12 I Cannot Be Your Sweetheart Howard û Peak (The Blind Music
13 Three Black Sheep Howard û Peak (The Blind Music
14 Good-night Darling Greene, Clarence
15 Little Bunch Of Roses Greene, Clarence
16 The Broken-Hearted Lover Stoneman Family, The
17 Angeline, The Baker Dunford, Uncle Eck
18 Old Shoes And Leggin's Dunford, Uncle Eck
19 We Parted By The Riverside Stoneman Family, The
20 Down To Jordan And Be Saved Ernest Stoneman's Dixie Mounta
21 There's A Light Lit Up In Galilee Ernest Stoneman's Dixie Mounta
22 Going Up The Mountain After Liquor, Part 1 Stoneman Family, The
23 Going Up The Mountain After Liquor, Part 2 Stoneman Family, The
24 The Spanish Merchant's Daughter Stoneman Family, The
25 Too Late Stoneman Family, The
Various - Country Music History - The Bristol Sessions - The Big Bang Of Country Music (5-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 5
01 I'll Be Happy Stamps Quartet
02 Like The Rainbow Stamps Quartet
03 Because I Love Him Stamps Quartet
04 Come To The Savior Stamps Quartet
05 Do Your Best, Then Wear A Smile Stamps Quartet
06 We Shall Reach Home Stamps Quartet
07 My Mother Is Waiting For Me In Heaven Above Smith Brothers
08 She Has Climbed The Golden Stair Smith Brothers
09 WeÆll Sing On That Shore Palmer Sisters
10 Singing The Story Of Grace Palmer Sisters
11 Help Me To Find The Way Palmer Sisters
12 HeÆll Be With Me Palmer Sisters
13 Brownie Blues Tarter & Gay
14 Unknown Blues Tarter & Gay
15 Where Is My Mamma? Carolina Twins
16 When You Go AÆCourtin' Carolina Twins
17 I Sat Upon The River Bank Carolina Twins
18 New Orleans Is The Town I Like Best Carolina Twins
19 She Tells Me That I Am Sweet Carolina Twins
20 Mr. Brown, Here I Come Carolina Twins
21 I Truly Understand, You Love Another Man Shortbuckle Roark & Family
22 My Mother's Hands Shortbuckle Roark & Family
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Twice nominated for GRAMMIES 2012, in the category'Best Historical Album' and the category'Best Linernotes', bear FAmily Records Box Set - The Bristol Sessions -.

The Bristol Sessions, 1927-1928: The Big Bang Of Country Music' documents the pioneering recording sessions for Victor Records, which marked the beginning of the career of Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family, among others.

The Johnson City Sessions, 1928-1929: Can You Sing Or Play Old-Time Music?, on the other hand, focuses on Columbia Records' undertakings and their search for young country music talents from the Appalachian region, which in turn produced many more promising recordings.

The Knoxville Sessions, 1929-1930: Knox County Stomp presents recordings from two sessions supervised by Brunswick Records at the St. James Hotel downtown. The music stands both for its variety and for the high rarity of the records on which it can be heard.

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7 Oct 2014

Great, historic. memorable event, captured in this 1 boxed set . A must for any lover of the genre.

Amazing though. In the synopsis/write up, no mention of the one musician who played a key role in bringing these sessions to Bristol, and the fact that he has 14 tracks, and his family have 6 tracks in the box set. WHY? Sadly it has to be an oversight, or is there another reason?

13 Mar 2014

This box set stands as an important contribution to the study of country music, and vernacular music in the United States more generally.
Cambridge Journals 11.06.13 Travis D. Stimeling

13 Mar 2014

All in all, Bear Family has done a very thorough job here. Highly recommended!
The Old-Time-Herald 3/2012 Jim Nelson

13 Mar 2014

Es ist verblüffend, in welch famoser Aufnahmequalität hier alle Antiquitäten erhalten sind!
Rolling Stone 3/2011 Franz Schöler

13 Mar 2014

Wer nach den Wurzeln von Country sucht, wird hier fündig.
Stereoplay 4/2011

13 Mar 2014

Großartig!
Good Times 4-5/2011

13 Mar 2014

Die Bristol Sessions sind wahrlich eine Sternstunde, nicht nur für die Country Musik. Hier wurden Wurzeln für viele Genres und Musikergenerationen gelegt.
Nürnberger Zeitung 30.05.2011

13 Mar 2014

The 1927 recordings include the first ever by Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family - history enough for one week!
US-Rolling Stone Dec. 2011 David Fricke

13 Mar 2014

Surely a cert for a nomination of some kind at the next Grammy Awards.
Mojo 3/2014 Fred Dollar

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Tracklist
Various - Country Music History - The Bristol Sessions - The Big Bang Of Country Music (5-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 1
01 The Dying Girl's Farewell
02 Tell Mother I Will Meet Her
03 The Mountaineer's Courtship
04 Midnight On The Stormy Deep
05 Sweeping Through The Gates
06 I Know My Name Is There
07 Are You Washed In The Blood?
08 No More Good-Byes
09 The Resurrection (take 1)
10 The Resurrection (take 2)
11 I Am Resolved (take 1)
12 I Am Resolved (take 2)
13 I Want To Go Where Jesus Is
14 Do, Lord, Remember Me
15 Old Ship Of Zion
16 Jesus Getting Us Ready For That Great Day
17 Happy In Prison
18 Don't Grieve After Me
19 What Will I Do, For My Money's All Gone
20 The Whip-poor-will's Song
21 Skip To Ma Lou, My Darling
22 Barney McCoy
23 Old Time Corn ShuckinÆ, Part 1
24 Old Time Corn ShuckinÆ, Part 2
Various - Country Music History - The Bristol Sessions - The Big Bang Of Country Music (5-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 2
01 The Jealous Sweetheart (take 1)
02 The Jealous Sweetheart (take 2)
03 A Passing Policeman
04 Just A Message From Carolina
05 The Wreck Of the Virginian (take 1)
06 The Wreck Of the Virginian (take 2)
07 I Mean To Live For Jesus
08 You Must Unload
09 Walking in the Way With Jesus (take 1)
10 Walking in the Way With Jesus (Take 2)
11 Two Brothers Are We
12 The Soldier's Poor Little Boy
13 I Want to See My Mother (Ten Thousand Miles A
14 Pot Liquor Blues
15 Narrow Gauge Blues
16 Cold Penitentiary Blues
17 Oh Molly Dear
18 Pretty Polly
19 Darling Cora
20 Called To The Foreign Field
21 I Am Bound For The Promised Land
22 Where We'll Never Grow Old
23 When They Ring The Golden Bells
24 To The Work
25 Train On The Island
26 Black-Eyed Susie
27 Johnny Goodwin
Various - Country Music History - The Bristol Sessions - The Big Bang Of Country Music (5-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 3
01 Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow
02 Little Log Cabin By The Sea
03 The Poor Orphan Child
04 The Storms Are On The Ocean
05 Single Girl, Married Girl
06 The Wandering Boy
07 Remember Me, O Mighty One
08 I'm Redeemed
09 Henry Whitter's Fox Chase
10 Rain Crow Bill
11 Big Bend Gal
12 Suzanna Gal
13 Sandy River Belle (take 1)
14 Sandy River Belle (take 2)
15 Billy Grimes, The Rover
16 The Newmarket Wreck
17 On The Banks Of The Sunny Tennessee
18 The SoldierÆs Sweetheart
19 Sleep Baby Sleep
20 The Longest Train I Ever Saw
21 Sweet Heaven When I Die
22 Miss ÆLiza, Poor Gal
23 Greasy String
24 Your Blue Eyes Run Me Crazy
25 Standing On The Promises
26 Shall We Gather At The River
Various - Country Music History - The Bristol Sessions - The Big Bang Of Country Music (5-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 4
01 My Name Is Ticklish Reuben
02 Way Down In Alabama
03 Do Not Wait 'Till I'm Laid 'Neath The Clay
04 The Days Of My Childhood Plays
05 We Shall All Be Reunited
06 If The Light Has Gone Out In Your Soul
07 Went Up In The Clouds Of Heaven
08 I Know That Jesus Set Me Free
09 Shine On Me
10 Bright Tomorrow
11 A Little Talk With Jesus
12 I Cannot Be Your Sweetheart
13 Three Black Sheep
14 Good-night Darling
15 Little Bunch Of Roses
16 The Broken-Hearted Lover
17 Angeline, The Baker
18 Old Shoes And Leggin's
19 We Parted By The Riverside
20 Down To Jordan And Be Saved
21 There's A Light Lit Up In Galilee
22 Going Up The Mountain After Liquor, Part 1
23 Going Up The Mountain After Liquor, Part 2
24 The Spanish Merchant's Daughter
25 Too Late
Various - Country Music History - The Bristol Sessions - The Big Bang Of Country Music (5-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 5
01 I'll Be Happy
02 Like The Rainbow
03 Because I Love Him
04 Come To The Savior
05 Do Your Best, Then Wear A Smile
06 We Shall Reach Home
07 My Mother Is Waiting For Me In Heaven Above
08 She Has Climbed The Golden Stair
09 WeÆll Sing On That Shore
10 Singing The Story Of Grace
11 Help Me To Find The Way
12 HeÆll Be With Me
13 Brownie Blues
14 Unknown Blues
15 Where Is My Mamma?
16 When You Go AÆCourtin'
17 I Sat Upon The River Bank
18 New Orleans Is The Town I Like Best
19 She Tells Me That I Am Sweet
20 Mr. Brown, Here I Come
21 I Truly Understand, You Love Another Man
22 My Mother's Hands