1-CD with 44-page booklet, 26 tracks. Total playing time approx. 78 minutes.

'We Shall All Be Reunited' showcases on a mid-price single-CD 26 memorable and varied recordings from the late 1920s Bristol sessions by a range of Appalachian musicians.

The recordings were painstakingly remastered in 2020 by sound engineer Marcus Heumann.

The album features an evocative 44-page insert booklet designed by Bear Family art director Mychael Gerstenberger.

New liner notes written by Ted Olson in which the 1927 sessions are reassessed based on recent scholarly research and discussion.

The liner notes explore ''the rest of the story''- the related cultural occurrences all-too-often ignored or marginalized.

This CD continues the series of Bear Family's mid-priced releases exploring East Tennessee's influential 1920s-era location recording sessions.

Follow-up album to the Independent Music Award-winning 2019 single-CD 'Tell It To Me: Revisiting The Johnson City Sessions, 1928-1929' ( (BCD17591).

'We Shall All Be Reunited: Revisiting The Bristol Sessions, 1927-1928' casts new light on an old story - that of the 1927 Bristol sessions. Conducted by Victor Records A&R producer Ralph Peer, this seminal event from the early years of commercial recording in the 1920s was nicknamed ''the Big Bang of Country Music,'' while the city in which the event occurred - Bristol, Tennessee/Virginia - was officially dubbed ''the Birthplace of Country Music.'' Featuring 15 key recordings made in Bristol during late July and early August 1927 -including first-ever recordings by the now-legendary Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers as well as recordings by several important early country musicians, including Ernest Stoneman, Henry Whitter, Blind Alfred Reed, and others -''We Shall All Be Reunited'' revisits and reinterprets that 1927 event. To provide a holistic portrayal of Peer's recording work in Bristol, this album includes11 stand-out selections -including several classic recordings of old-time and gospel music by such musicians as Uncle Eck Dunford.

Cast & Crew

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Track Listing

• Ernest V. Stoneman and His Dixie Mountaineers - Sweeping Through The Gates
• Blind Alfred Reed - The Wreck Of The Virginian (Take 2)
• El Watson - Narrow Gauge Blues
• Johnson Brothers with Tennessee Wildcats - The Soldier's Poor Little Boy
• B. F. Shelton - Oh Molly Dear
• J. P. Nester - Black-Eyed Susie
• Bull Mountain Moonshiners - Johnny Goodwin
• The Carter Family - The Poor Orphan Child
• Alcoa Quartet - I'm Redeemed
• Henry Whitter - Rain Crow Bill
• Dad Blackard's Moonshiners - Susanna Gal
• Jimmie Rodgers - Sleep Baby Sleep
• Tenneva Ramblers - The Longest Train I Ever Saw
• West Virginia Coon Hunters - Your Blue Eyes Run Me Crazy
• Tennessee Mountaineers - Standing On The Promises
• Smyth County Ramblers - My Name Is Ticklish Reuben
• Ernest Phipps and His Holiness Singers - Shine On Me
• Howard—Peak (The Blind Musicians) - I Cannot Be Your Sweetheart
• Clarence Greene - Little Bunch Of Roses
• Uncle Eck Dunford - Old Shoes And Leggin's
• Smith Brothers - My Mother Is Waiting For Me In Heaven Above
• The Palmer Sisters - We'll Sing On That Shore
• Tarter & Gay - Unknown Blues
• Carolina Twins - New Orleans Is The Town I Like Best
• Shortbuckle Roark & Family - I Truly Understand, You Love Another Man
• Alfred G. Karnes - We Shall All Be Reunited

Additional Details

Label: Bear Family Records

Genre: Country

Language: English

Run Time: 77:47 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 08/21/20

UPC: 5397102175923