Satan Is Busy In Knoxville: Revisiting The Knoxville Sessions 1929-1930 (CD)

Release Date: 02/03/23

-Released in January 2023, 'Satan Is Busy In Knoxville: Revisiting The Knoxville Sessions, 1929-1930' distills onto a single CD the major recordings and the groundbreaking research found on Bear Family Records®' Grammy Award-nominated 4-CD box set, 'The Knoxville Sessions, 1929-1930: Knox County Stomp' (BCD 16097).
-27 essential recordings from the historically significant location sessions conducted during 1929 and 1930 by the Brunswick/Vocalion labels in Knoxville, Tennessee.
-Influential releases of 'hillbilly music' as well as landmark recordings of Black Appalachian music.
-New essays by Jack Neely and James 'Sparky' Rucker in which those writers set the Knoxville sessions into historical context.
-Detailed track-by-track notes by Grammy Award-nominated writer Ted Olson, who produced this compilation.
-State-of-the-art sound engineering, these recordings - nearly a century old but painstakingly remastered in 2022 by Marcus Heumann - sound warm and clear.
-Memorable design work by Bear Family Records®' longtime artistic director Mychael Gerstenberger.

'Satan Is Busy In Knoxville: Revisiting The Knoxville Sessions, 1929-1930' distills onto a single CD the major recordings and the groundbreaking research found on Bear Family Records®' Grammy Award-nominated 4-CD box set, 'The Knoxville Sessions, 1929-1930: Knox County Stomp' (BCD 16097), released in 2016. 'Satan Is Busy In Knoxville' offers 27 essential recordings from the historically significant location sessions conducted during 1929 and 1930 by the Brunswick/Vocalion labels in Knoxville, Tennessee. The recordings include such influential releases of 'hillbilly music' as Hugh (Ballard) Cross' original recording of The Wabash Cannon Ball, the Appalachian Vagabond's Peddler And His Wife, and Haskell Wolfenbarger's Sailing Out On The Ocean, as well as such landmark recordings of Black Appalachian music as Will Bennett's Railroad Bill, the Tennessee Chocolate Drops' Vine Street Rag, among others.