When the Sun Goes Down, Vol. 10: East Virginia Blues

by East Virginia Blues: Appalachia

Overview

This is the tenth volume in Bluebird Records' superb When the Sun Goes Down: The Secret History of Rock & Roll series. Drawing on the extensive Bluebird and Victor back catalog of vintage 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s 78s, this installment, subtitled East Virginia Blues, traces the roots of honky tonk through the Appalachians, where modal European song forms collided head on with the Africanized rhythms of the blues, creating the springboard for contemporary country and rock & roll. What keeps this collection from simply being an archival project is the careful and deliberate sequencing, which turns variety into a virtue and keeps the pace of things fresh and interesting. Highlights include an early version of "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" by the Monroe Brothers, Wade Mainer's "Down in the Willow," and the original version of the vicious murder ballad "Tom Dooley" by G.B. Grayson and Henry Whitter. The first two megahits of country are here, "The Prisoner's Song" and "The Wreck of the Old '97," by Vernon Dalhart, both of which turn on massive doses of deliberate melancholy. Dick Burnett's "Constant Sorrow" is here in an early version by the Hall Brothers, recorded a full decade before Ralph Stanley took a shot at it. The historical and musical roots that fed into the creation of modern folk, blues, country, and rock are all present, and like the other titles in this series, East Virginia Blues does an admirable job of showing that the contemporary music listened to nowadays didn't show up fully formed out of thin air. ~ Steve Leggett

Product Details

Release Date:	06/22/2004
Label:	Bluebird Rca / Bluebird
UPC:	0828766008524
Rank:	180308

Tracks

1. The East Virginia Blues  -  Carter Family  - A.P. Carter
2. Will the Circle Be Unbroken  -  Monroe Brothers
3. Down in the Willow  - Wade Mainer  - Zeke Morris  -  Traditional  -  Mainer
4. Mary of the Wild Moor  -  Blue Sky Boys  -  Traditional
5. Wildwood Flower  -  Carter Family  - A.P. Carter
6. The Prisoner's Song  - Vernon Dalhart  -  Traditional
7. Constant Sorrow  -  Hall Brothers Jazz Band  -  Traditional
8. In the Hills of Roane County  -  Blue Sky Boys  -  Traditional
9. Orange Blossom Special  -  Rouse Brothers  - Ervin T. Rouse
10. Tom Dooley  - G.B. Grayson  -  Traditional  - Henry Whitter
11. Short Life and It's Trouble  - Wade Mainer  - Zeke Morris  -  Traditional  -  Mainer
12. The Longest Train  -  Mainer  -  Traditional
13. Birmingham Jail  -  Billings  - Carson Robison  -  Traditional  - Bud Billings
14. Wreck of the Old 97  - Vernon Dalhart  -  Traditional
15. Frankie and Johnny  - Jimmie Rodgers  -  Traditional
16. Mule Skinner Blues  -  Monroe  - Jimmie Rodgers
17. She's a Hum Dum Dinger (From Dingersville), Pt. 2  - Jimmie Davis
18. Nobody's Business  - Riley Puckett  -  Traditional
19. That Nasty Swing  - Cliff Carlisle
20. The Matchbox Blues  -  Traditional
21. Do Right Daddy Blues  - Gene Autry  -  Traditional
22. Just Because  - Leon Chappelear  -  Lone Star Cowboys
23. Brown's Ferry Blues  -  Delmore Brothers  - Alton Delmore  - Rabon Delmore
24. In the Jailhouse No. 2  - Jimmie Rodgers
25. The TB Is Whipping Me  - Ernest Tubb

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Bud Billings   Primary Artist
Wade Mainer & Zeke Morris   Primary Artist
Bud & Joe Billings   Primary Artist
The Carter Family   Primary Artist
Henry Whitter   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Zeke Morris   Primary Artist,Banjo,Guitar,Vocals
Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys   Primary Artist
Lone Star Cowboys   Primary Artist
J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers   Primary Artist
Riley Puckett   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Ernest Tubb   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Vernon Dalhart   Primary Artist,Vocals,Harmonica
Jimmie Rodgers   Primary Artist
The Monroe Brothers   Primary Artist
The Rouse Brothers   Primary Artist
Jimmie Davis   Primary Artist,Vocals
Wade Mainer   Primary Artist,Banjo,Guitar,Vocals
Carson Robison   Primary Artist,Vocals,Train Whistle,Guitar
Cliff Carlisle   Primary Artist,Hawaiian Guitar,Vocals
The Delmore Brothers   Primary Artist
Gene Autry   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
G.B. Grayson   Primary Artist
The Blue Sky Boys   Primary Artist
Hall Brothers Jazz Band   Primary Artist
Charlie Monroe   Guitar,Vocals
Frankie Marvin   Guitar
Earl Bolick   Guitar,Vocals
Bill "Cousin Wilbur" Westbrooks   Bass
Ed "Snoozer" Quinn   Guitar
Billy Burkes   Guitar
Lou Raderman   Viola
Steve Ledford   Fiddle
Daddy John Love   Guitar,Vocals
Sam Freed   Fiddle
Sarah Carter   Guitar,Vocals
Bill Bolick   Vocals,Mandolin
Alton Delmore   Guitar,Vocals
Ervin T. Rouse   Fiddle,Vocals
Leon Chappelear   Guitar
Tommy Magness   Fiddle
Rabon Delmore   Guitar,Vocals
Mother Maybelle Carter   Guitar,Tenor (Vocal)
Roy Hall   Guitar,Vocals
Roy Smeck   Hawaiian Guitar
J.E. Mainer   Fiddle,Vocals
Clyde Moody   Mandolin

Technical Credits

Doug Pomeroy   Mastering,Transfers,Audio Restoration
Cliff Carlisle   Composer
Jeremy Holiday   Editorial Supervision
Barry Feldman   Reissue Producer
Gary Kelley   Cover Illustration
Steven Smolian   Transfers
Nathan Sedlander   Production Coordination
Traditional   Composer
Alton Delmore   Composer
Ernest Tubb   Composer
Ervin T. Rouse   Composer
Leon Chappelear   Composer
Rabon Delmore   Composer
Jimmie Rodgers   Composer
A.P. Carter   Composer
Colin Escott   Liner Notes,Photography,Reissue Producer
Jimmie Davis   Composer
Richard Nevins   Transfers