With this set, Bear Family completes the map of commercial recording in East Tennessee in the late 1920s & early 1930s.

The third compendium of early country music talent in Appalachia, along with 'The Bristol Sessions' and 'The Johnson City Sessions'.

The Knoxville Sessions, 1929-30: Knox County Stomp features the music made at two sessions conducted by Brunswick Records at downtown St. James Hotel--music remarkable both for its variety and for the rarity of the records that preserved it.

Whereas the recordings made in Bristol and Johnson City were almost exclusively of old-time country and gospel music, the Knoxville sessions captured a more diverse gathering of Appalachian voices and sounds. Amidst old-time stringbands like the Tennessee Ramblers, the Southern Moonlight Entertainers, and the Smoky Mountain Ramblers, we also hear the majestic African American blues and gospel singer Leola Manning, the hot dance music of Maynard Baird & His Southern Serenaders, the virtuoso string ragtime of Howard Armstrong and the Tennessee Chocolate Drops, sacred songs by white and African American quartettes, songsters such as Will Bennett and Haskell Wolfenbarger, a unique recorded playlet about the Hatfield-McCoy feud--and even an address by the businessman whose enterprise brought Brunswick Records to Knoxville, Colonel J. G. Sterchi, president of the famous Sterchi Bros. furniture store chain.

The Knoxville Sessions, 1929-1930: Knox County Stomp gathers together, for the first time, all the issued recordings made at the St. James Hotel, remastered from the original 78s--some of them so elusive that only single copies are known to exist. These 99 fascinating performances, on four CDs, are accompanied by a 156-page, LP-sized hardcover book containing essays on the history of Knoxville, the background to the sessions, and the individual artists, much of the material based on new research. The book is also filled with scores of rare photographs, many previously unpublished, as well as complete song lyrics and a detailed discography with 250 illustrations.

Track Listing

• Tennessee Ramblers - Garbage Can Blues
• Tennessee Ramblers - Bericht von Charles Laughton an Brecht, 10
• Tennessee Ramblers - Tennessee Traveler
• Tennessee Ramblers - Ramblers March
• Tennessee Ramblers - In My Dear Old Sunny South
• Tennessee Ramblers - Hawaiian Medley
• Tennessee Ramblers - Give The Fiddlers A Dram
• Southern Moonlight Entertainers - My Carolina Girl
• Southern Moonlight Entertainers - Are You Happy Or Lonesome
• Southern Moonlight Entertainers - Lost John
• Southern Moonlight Entertainers - My Cabin Home
• Southern Moonlight Entertainers - My Blue Ridge Mountain Queen
• Southern Moonlight Entertainers - Dream Waltz
• Southern Moonlight Entertainers - Sister Liz
• Southern Moonlight Entertainers - Buckin' Mule
• Southern Moonlight Entertainers - Buckin’ Mule
• Ridgel’s Fountain Citians - Hallelujah To The Lamb
• Ridgel’s Fountain Citians - Be Ready
• Ridgel’s Fountain Citians - Free Little Bird
• Ridgel’s Fountain Citians - Little Bonnie
• Wise String Orchestra - Yellow Dog Blues
• Wise String Orchestra - How Dry I Am
• Will Bennett - Railroad Bill
• Will Bennett - Real Estate Blues
• Haskell Wolfenbarger - My Little Girl
• Haskell Wolfenbarger - Sailing Out On The Ocean
• Leola Manning - He Cares For Me
• Leola Manning - He Fans Me
• Ballard Cross - Old Black Crow In The Hickory Nut Tree
• Ballard Cross - My Poodle Dog

• Ballard Cross - The Wabash Cannon Ball
• Ballard Cross - Lorrainna
• Cal Davenport & His Gang - Double Eagle March
• Cal Davenport & His Gang - Broken Hearted Lover
• Cal Davenport & His Gang - Little Rosewood Casket
• Cal Davenport & His Gang - Blue Ridge Mountain Blues
• Ballard Cross - Down Where The Swanee River Flows
• Ballard Cross - Won't You Waltz Home Sweet Home With Me
• Ballard Cross - Won’t You Waltz Home Sweet Home With Me
• Senior Chapel Quartette - In My Saviour's Care
• Senior Chapel Quartette - In My Saviour’s Care
• Senior Chapel Quartette - The Great Judgment
• Senior Chapel Quartette - Lonesome Road
• Senior Chapel Quartette - Way Down Home
• Maynard Baird & His Southern Serenaders - Sorry
• Maynard Baird & His Southern Serenaders - Just For You
• Colonel J. G. Sterchi - To My Friends And Patrons
• Cal West - Cal West’s Yodel Blues â€' Part 1
• Cal West - Cal West's Yodel Blues - Part 2
• Cal West - Cal West’s Yodel Blues â€' Part 2
• Smoky Mountain Ramblers - San Antonio
• Smoky Mountain Ramblers - Back To Old Smoky Mountain
• Smoky Mountain Ramblers - Ain't It Hell, Boys
• Smoky Mountain Ramblers - Ain’t It Hell, Boys
• Smoky Mountain Ramblers - Down In Tennessee
• Perry County Music Makers - I'm Sad And Blue
• Perry County Music Makers - I’m Sad And Blue
• Perry County Music Makers - Maudaline
• Perry County Music Makers - Got A Buddy I Must See
• Perry County Music Makers - By The Cottage Door

• Kentucky Holiness Singers - I'm On My Way
• Kentucky Holiness Singers - I’m On My Way
• Kentucky Holiness Singers - I Will Not Be Removed
• Smoky Mountain Ramblers - No Business Of Mine
• Smoky Mountain Ramblers - Bear Mountain Rag
• The Appalachia Vagabond - Hard For To Love
• The Appalachia Vagabond - Peddler And His Wife
• Lester McFarland & Robert A Gardner - Where The Sweet Magnolias Bloom
• Lester McFarland & Robert A. Gardner - My Little Georgia Rose
• Gibbs Brothers with Claude Davis - Goodbye Dixie Dear
• Gibbs Brothers with Claude Davis - Do You Think That You Could Love Me
• Gibbs Brothers with Claude Davis - You Left Me Last Night Broken Hearted
• Gibbs Brothers with Claude Davis - Strolling Home With Jenny
• Gibbs Brothers with Claude Davis - I Love My Toodlum-Doo
• Gibbs Brothers with Claude Davis - I Wandered Away From Home
• Clayton & His Melody Mountaineers - Lookout Valley Waltz
• Clayton & His Melody Mountaineers - June Wedding Waltz
• Tennessee Chocolate Drops / Tennessee Trio - Knox County Stomp
• Tennessee Chocolate Drops - Tennessee Trio / Knox County Stomp
• Tennessee Chocolate Drops / Tennessee Trio - Vine Street Rag
• Tennessee Chocolate Drops - Tennessee Trio / Vine Street Rag
• Lester McFarland & Robert A. Gardner - I've Grown So Used To You
• Lester McFarland & Robert A Gardner - I’ve Grown So Used To You
• Lester McFarland & Robert A. Gardner - The Unmarked Grave
• Lester McFarland & Robert A. Gardner - The Mansion Of Aching Hearts
• Lester McFarland & Robert A. Gardner - Will The Roses Bloom In Heaven
• Lester McFarland & Robert A. Gardner - Asleep At The Switch

• Ridgel’s Fountain Citians - The Bald Headed End Of The Broom
• Ridgel’s Fountain Citians - The Nick Nack Song
• Ridgel’s Fountain Citians - Baby Call Your Dog Off
• Ridgel’s Fountain Citians - Gittin' Upstairs
• Ridgel’s Fountain Citians - Gittin’ Upstairs
• Louis Bird - It's Funny What Whiskey Will Do
• Louis Bird - It’s Funny What Whiskey Will Do
• Louis Bird - Nothing Goes Hard With Me
• Southern Moonlight Entertainers - Then I'll Move To Town
• Southern Moonlight Entertainers - Then I’ll Move To Town
• Southern Moonlight Entertainers - How To Make Love
• Leola Manning - The Arcade Building Moan
• Leola Manning - Satan Is Busy In Knoxville
• Leola Manning - Laying In The Graveyard
• Leola Manning - The Blues Is All Wrong
• Bess Pennington - If You Think I'm Not Worthy
• Bess Pennington - If You Think I’m Not Worthy
• Bess Pennington - Jack And May
• Uncle Jimmy Thompson - Lynchburg
• Uncle Jimmy Thompson - Uncle Jimmy's Favorite Fiddling Pieces
• Uncle Jimmy Thompson - Uncle Jimmy’s Favorite Fiddling Pieces
• Etowah Quartet - Walking With My Lord
• Etowah Quartet - Back In The Years
• Maynard Baird & His Orchestra - Postage Stomp
• Maynard Baird & His Orchestra - I Can't Stop Loving You
• Maynard Baird & His Orchestra - I Can’t Stop Loving You
• Alex Hood & His Railroad Boys - L. And N. Rag
• Alex Hood & His Railroad Boys - L And N Rag
• Alex Hood & His Railroad Boys - Corbin Slide
• Lowe Stokes, Homer Miller, Walt McKinney, Heavy Martin, Roger Williams & Bill Brown - The Great Hatfield-McCoy Feud - Part 1
• Lowe Stokes, Homer Miller, Walt McKinney, Heavy Martin, Roger Williams & Bill Brown - The Great Hatfield-McCoy Feud â€' Part 1
• Lowe Stokes, Homer Miller, Walt McKinney, Heavy Martin, Roger Williams & Bill Brown - The Great Hatfield-McCoy Feud - Part 2
• Lowe Stokes, Homer Miller, Walt McKinney, Heavy Martin, Roger Williams & Bill Brown - The Great Hatfield-McCoy Feud â€' Part 2
• Lowe Stokes, Homer Miller, Walt McKinney, Heavy Martin, Roger Williams & Bill Brown - The Great Hatfield-McCoy Feud - Part 3
• Lowe Stokes, Homer Miller, Walt McKinney, Heavy Martin, Roger Williams & Bill Brown - The Great Hatfield-McCoy Feud â€' Part 3
• Lowe Stokes, Homer Miller, Walt McKinney, Heavy Martin, Roger Williams & Bill Brown - The Great Hatfield-McCoy Feud - Part 4
• Lowe Stokes, Homer Miller, Walt McKinney, Heavy Martin, Roger Williams & Bill Brown - The Great Hatfield-McCoy Feud â€' Part 4

Additional Details

Label: Bear Family Records

Genre: Country

Language: English

Run Time: 303:58 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 08/12/16

UPC: 5397102160974