Tracks - Before the Big Bang

TODAY’S REVEAL (10/21/20)

Sourwood Mountain by Whitter’s Virginia Breakdowners (1924)

CD 5, track 22

Complete tracklist

Items will be added below as selections are announced. Click between tabs 1-6 to see the selections included on each disc or go to “All Tracks” to see the complete list of selections.

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See the selections featured on CD 1, The Porch and the Parlor

Track	Title	Artist	Year
1	Old Uncle Ned	Anonymous	1890
2
3	Turkey in the Straw	Billy Golden	1893
4
5
6	Hear dem Bells	Brilliant Quartet	1896
7	Nearer, My God, to Thee	Standard Quartette	1897
8	Sleep, Baby Sleep	George P. Watson	1898
9
10	Old Black Joe	Arthur Collins and George S. Williams	1900
11	The New Bully	Silas Leachman	1896
12	Who Broke the Lock	Cousins and DeMoss	1898
13	The Letter Edged in Black	Hattie Nevada	1897
14	In the Baggage Coach Ahead	Jere Mahoney	1898
15	The Girl I Loved in Sunny Tennessee	J. J. Fisher	1899
16	Ain't That a Shame	Silas Leachman	1901
17	Hello Central, Give Me Heaven	Byron G. Harlan	1901
18	Ticklish Reuben	Cal Stewart	1902
19	O Didn't He Ramble	Dan W. Quinn	1904
20	When the Bees Are in the Hive	Macdonough and Bieling with Haydn Quartet	1905
21	The Preacher and the Bear	Arthur Collins	1905
22	Monkey on a String	Cal Stewart	1907
23	Old Folks at Home	Corinne Morgan	1905
24	Hard Times Come Again No More	Edison Quartet	1905
25	Home, Sweet Home	Edison Mixed Quartet	1907
26	When You and I Were Young, Maggie	Will Oakland	1908
27	Carry Me Back to Old Virginia	Columbia Quartette	1907
28	De Little Old Log Cabin in de Lane	Carroll C. Clark (with Vess Ossman)	1909
29	In the Sweet Bye and Bye	Haydn Quartet	1908
30	The Old-Time Religion	Haydn Quartet	1906
31	What a Time	Polk Miller & His Old South Quartet	1909

See the selections featured on CD 2, The Barn and the Ballroom

Track	Title	Artist	Year
1	Electric Light Quadrille	Issler's Orchestra	1894-95
2	Dancing in the Barn	United States Marine Band	1895-96
3	The Husking Bee	Columbia Orchestra	1898
4	Patrol Comique	George Schweinfest (with calls by Frank L. Embree)	1898
5	Smoky Mokes	Vess L. Ossman	1899
6	Ragtime Medley	Samuel Siegel	1900
7	Unknown Melody	Tom Nottingham's Ranchers	1900
8	Barn Dance from Florodora	Peerless Orchestra	1901
9	Virginia Skeddadle	Columbia Orchestra	1903
10
11	Irish Washerwoman	Unknown Harmonica Player	1901
12	Paddy on the Turnpike	James C. McAuliffe	1903
13	Bonaparte’s March	H. R. Rawver [?]	1905
14	Medley of Old Time Reels	Charles D'Almaine	1905
15	Medley of Reels	John J. Kimmel	1906
16	Chicken Chowder	Ossman-Dudley Trio	1907
17	Manzanillo (Mexican Serenade)	Valentine Abt and Roy Butin	1908
18	Sterling Castle and Harvest Home	William Craig	1909
19	Original Jigs and Reels	George Stehl	1910
20	I'm Alabama Bound	Prince's Orchestra	1910
21	Dixie Medley	Fred Van Eps	1911
22
23	Mrs. McLeod's Reel	Don Richardson	1916
24	The Hooking Cow Blues	Handy's Orchestra of Memphis	1917
25	My Honolulu Hula Girl	Louise, Ferera & Greenus Trio	1918
26	Laughing Rag	Sam Moore and Horace Davis	1921
27	Hayseed Rag	The Dizzy Trio	1924
28	Right or Wrong	Gene Rodemich's Orchestra	1921
29

See the selections featured on CD 3, The Farm and the Factory

Track	Title	Artist	Year
1	Uncle Josh’s Invitation to the City Folks	Cal Stewart	1899
2	When Reuben Comes To Town	Dan W. Quinn	1900
3	Dese Bones Shall Rise Again	Minstrels	1903
4	Arkansaw Traveler	Len Spencer	1908
5	Rabbit Hash	Billy Golden	1908
6	Mariar	Clarice Vance	1908
7	You Ain't Talking to Me	Ed. Morton	1909
8
9	Don't Go Down in the Mine, Dad	Stanley Kirkby	1910
10	Casey Jones	Billy Murray	1910
11	Two Rubes Swapping Horses	Steve Porter and Edward Meeker	1910
12
13	They Gotta Quit Kickin' My Dawg Aroun'	Byron G. Harlan	1912
14	Cheyenne	Billy Murray	1906
15	Ragtime Cowboy Joe	Bob Roberts	1912
16	Frankie and Johnny	Gene Greene (with Charley Straight)	1912
17	Old Country Fiddler at the Dance	Charles Ross Taggart	1916
18	Are You from Dixie? ('Cause I'm from Dixie Too)	Irving Kaufman and Billy Murray	1915
19
20	Long Boy	Byron G. Harlan with the Peerless Quartet	1917
21	How 'Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm? (After They've Seen Paree)	Nora Bayes	1918
22	Lovesick Blues	Irving Kaufman	1922
23	Chattanooga Blues	Ida Cox	1923
24
25	Don’t You Quit Me Daddy	Sara Martin’s Jug Band	1924
26	Mail Man Blues	Lee Morse	1924

See the selections featured on CD 4, The Sing and the Schoolhouse

Track	Title	Artist	Year
1	Just Tell My Mother	Adjt. Edward Taylor	1897
2	The Mountain Climber	The Graus Duo	1897
3	Cillerthal	Graus Mountain Choir	1897
4	William J. Bryan's Cross Of Gold Speech	Len Spencer	1896-97
5	Annie Laurie	George J. Gaskin	1898
6	Darling Nellie Gray	J. W. Myers	1903
7	Dixie	Byron G. Harlan and Frank C. Stanley	1904
8	Lasca	Edgar L. Davenport	1909
9	Una Noche de Alegria	Octaviano Yañez	1909
10	Banjo Song	Rev. J. A. Myers	1908
11	Lord Bateman	Joseph Taylor	1908
12	The Foggy Dew	John McCormack	1913
13	The Girl I Left Behind Me	Columbia Stellar Quartette	1913
14	Aloha 'oe	Toots Paka's Hawaiians	1913
15	Listen to the Mocking Bird	Joe Belmont	1914
16	O Mary, Don't You Weep, Don't You Mourn	Fisk University Jubilee Quartet	1915
17	Old Dan Tucker	Harry C. Browne	1916
18	The Gallows Tree	Bentley Ball	1919
19	Bangum and the Boar	Bentley Ball	1919
20	The Train I Ride	R. W. Gordon field recording (anon. Californian 1)	1920-23
21	Jump Jim Crow	R. W. Gordon field recording (anon. Californian 2)	1920-23
22
23
24	Old Granny Hare	William Ernest Bird	1925
25	Easter Anthem	Original Sacred Harp Choir	1922
26	Antioch L. M.	Original Sacred Harp Choir	1922
27	Whoopee Ti Yi Yo	Wilfred Glenn and Shannon Quartet	1923
28	I've Been Workin' on de Railroad	Shannon Quartet	1923
29	Barbara Allen	Royal Dadmun	1922
30	A Roundup Lullaby	Royal Dadmun	1923
31

See the selections featured on CD 5, From Shire to Shellac (Tunes)

Track	Title	Artist	Year
1	Medley of Irish Jigs	Michael Coleman	1921
2	The Union Reel	Patrolman Frank Quinn	1922
3	Turkey in the Straw	Henry Gilliland and Eck Robertson	1922
4
5	Arkansaw Traveler	William B. Houchens	1922
6	The Opera Reel	Jasper Bisbee	1923
7	Durang Hornpipe	John Baltzell	1923
8	Rain Crow Bill Blues	Henry Whitter	1923
9	Bonaparte's Retreat	A. A. Gray	1924
10	Old Catville Quadrille	Col. John A. Pattee	1924
11
12	Kitty Puss	Land Norris	1924
13	Chicken Reel	E. F. "Poss" Acree	1924
14	Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss	Samantha Bumgarner	1924
15	Cumberland Gap	Uncle "Am" Stuart (banjo by Gene Austin)	1924
16	Soldier's Joy	Sid Harkreader and Uncle Dave Macon	1924
17	The Rocky Road to Dublin	Allen Sisson	1925
18	Royal Clog	Ernest Helton	1925
19	The Cackling Hen	J. D. Harris	1925
20
21	Callahan's Reel	Fiddlin' Powers and Family	1924
22	Sourwood Mountain	Whitter's Virginia Breakdowners	1924
23	Sally Ann	The Hill Billies	1925
24	Silver Bell	McMichen's Home Town Band	1925
25	Snow Dear	Jimmie Wilson's Catfish String Band	1925

See the selections featured on CD 6, From Holler to Horn (Songs)

Track	Title	Artist	Year
1	Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray	Vaughan Quartet	1921
2	The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane	Fiddlin' John Carson	1923
3	The Old Hen Cackled and the Rooster's Going to Crow	Fiddlin' John Carson	1923
4	It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'	Wendell Hall	1923
5	The Wreck on the Southern Old 97	Henry Whitter	1923
6	Lonesome Road Blues	Henry Whitter	1923
7	Rock All Our Babies to Sleep	Riley Puckett	1924
8	I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground	Bascom Lamar Lunsford	1924
9	Cindy in the Meadows	Samantha Bumgarner and Eva Davis	1924
10	Life's Railway to Heaven	George Reneau (with Gene Austin)	1924
11
12	Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy	Uncle Dave Macon	1924
13	Old Joe Clark	Fiddlin' Powers and Family (with Carson Robison)	1924
14	Weeping Willow Tree	Ernest Thompson	1924
15	The Prisoner's Song	Vernon Dalhart	1924
16	The Runaway Train	Vernon Dalhart	1925
17
18	Boll Weevil Blues	Gid Tanner	1925
19	Anytime	Emmett Miller	1924
20	Little Mary Phagan	Rosa Lee Carson	1925
21	Butcher's Boy	Kelly Harrell	1925
22
23	Worried Blues	Frank Hutchison	1926
24	May I Sleep in Your Barn Tonight Mister	Ernest Stoneman	1926
25	The Sinking of the Titanic	The Blue Ridge Mountaineer (Ernest Stoneman)	1926

See all selections on Before the Big Bang: Country Music Origins in the Acoustic Era, 1890-1926

#	CD & Track	Title	Artist	Year
1	01 - 01	Old Uncle Ned	Anonymous	1890
2	01 - 02
3	01 - 03	Turkey in the Straw	Billy Golden	1893
4	01 - 04
5	01 - 05
6	01 - 06	Hear dem Bells	Brilliant Quartet	1896
7	01 - 07	Nearer, My God, to Thee	Standard Quartette	1897
8	01 - 08	Sleep, Baby Sleep	George P. Watson	1898
9	01 - 09
10	01 - 10	Old Black Joe	Arthur Collins and George S. Williams	1900
11	01 - 11	The New Bully	Silas Leachman	1896
12	01 - 12	Who Broke the Lock	Cousins and DeMoss	1898
13	01 - 13	The Letter Edged in Black	Hattie Nevada	1897
14	01 - 14	In the Baggage Coach Ahead	Jere Mahoney	1898
15	01 - 15	The Girl I Loved in Sunny Tennessee	J. J. Fisher	1899
16	01 - 16	Ain't That a Shame	Silas Leachman	1901
17	01 - 17	Hello Central, Give Me Heaven	Byron G. Harlan	1901
18	01 - 18	Ticklish Reuben	Cal Stewart	1902
19	01 - 19	O Didn't He Ramble	Dan W. Quinn	1904
20	01 - 20	When the Bees Are in the Hive	Macdonough and Bieling with Haydn Quartet	1905
21	01 - 21	The Preacher and the Bear	Arthur Collins	1905
22	01 - 22	Monkey on a String	Cal Stewart	1907
23	01 - 23	Old Folks at Home	Corinne Morgan	1905
24	01 - 24	Hard Times Come Again No More	Edison Quartet	1905
25	01 - 25	Home, Sweet Home	Edison Mixed Quartet	1907
26	01 - 26	When You and I Were Young, Maggie	Will Oakland	1908
27	01 - 27	Carry Me Back to Old Virginia	Columbia Quartette	1907
28	01 - 28	De Little Old Log Cabin in de Lane	Carroll C. Clark (with Vess Ossman)	1909
29	01 - 29	In the Sweet Bye and Bye	Haydn Quartet	1908
30	01 - 30	The Old-Time Religion	Haydn Quartet	1906
31	01 - 31	What a Time	Polk Miller & His Old South Quartet	1909
32	02 - 01	Electric Light Quadrille	Issler's Orchestra	1894-95
33	02 - 02	Dancing in the Barn	United States Marine Band	1895-96
34	02 - 03	The Husking Bee	Columbia Orchestra	1898
35	02 - 04	Patrol Comique	George Schweinfest (with calls by Frank L. Embree)	1898
36	02 - 05	Smoky Mokes	Vess L. Ossman	1899
37	02 - 06	Ragtime Medley	Samuel Siegel	1900
38	02 - 07	Unknown Melody	Tom Nottingham's Ranchers	1900
39	02 - 08	Barn Dance from Florodora	Peerless Orchestra	1901
40	02 - 09	Virginia Skeddadle	Columbia Orchestra	1903
41	02 - 10
42	02 - 11	Irish Washerwoman	Unknown Harmonica Player	1901
43	02 - 12	Paddy on the Turnpike	James C. McAuliffe	1903
44	02 - 13	Bonaparte’s March	H. R. Rawver [?]	1905
45	02 - 14	Medley of Old Time Reels	Charles D'Almaine	1905
46	02 - 15	Medley of Reels	John J. Kimmel	1906
47	02 - 16	Chicken Chowder	Ossman-Dudley Trio	1907
48	02 - 17	Manzanillo (Mexican Serenade)	Valentine Abt and Roy Butin	1908
49	02 - 18	Sterling Castle and Harvest Home	William Craig	1909
50	02 - 19	Original Jigs and Reels	George Stehl	1910
51	02 - 20	I'm Alabama Bound	Prince's Orchestra	1910
52	02 - 21	Dixie Medley	Fred Van Eps	1911
53	02 - 22
54	02 - 23	Mrs. McLeod's Reel	Don Richardson	1916
55	02 - 24	The Hooking Cow Blues	Handy's Orchestra of Memphis	1917
56	02 - 25	My Honolulu Hula Girl	Louise, Ferera & Greenus Trio	1918
57	02 - 26	Laughing Rag	Sam Moore and Horace Davis	1921
58	02 - 27	Hayseed Rag	The Dizzy Trio	1924
59	02 - 28	Right or Wrong	Gene Rodemich's Orchestra	1921
60	02 - 29
61	03 - 01	Uncle Josh’s Invitation to the City Folks	Cal Stewart	1899
62	03 - 02	When Reuben Comes To Town	Dan W. Quinn	1900
63	03 - 03	Dese Bones Shall Rise Again	Minstrels	1903
64	03 - 04	Arkansaw Traveler	Len Spencer	1908
65	03 - 05	Rabbit Hash	Billy Golden	1908
66	03 - 06	Mariar	Clarice Vance	1908
67	03 - 07	You Ain't Talking to Me	Ed. Morton	1909
68	03 - 08
69	03 - 09	Don't Go Down in the Mine, Dad	Stanley Kirkby	1910
70	03 - 10	Casey Jones	Billy Murray	1910
71	03 - 11	Two Rubes Swapping Horses	Steve Porter and Edward Meeker	1910
72	03 - 12
73	03 - 13	They Gotta Quit Kickin' My Dawg Aroun'	Byron G. Harlan	1912
74	03 - 14	Cheyenne	Billy Murray	1906
75	03 - 15	Ragtime Cowboy Joe	Bob Roberts	1912
76	03 - 16	Frankie and Johnny	Gene Greene (with Charley Straight)	1912
77	03 - 17	Old Country Fiddler at the Dance	Charles Ross Taggart	1916
78	03 - 18	Are You from Dixie? ('Cause I'm from Dixie Too)	Irving Kaufman and Billy Murray	1915
79	03 - 19
80	03 - 20	Long Boy	Byron G. Harlan with the Peerless Quartet	1917
81	03 - 21	How 'Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm? (After They've Seen Paree)	Nora Bayes	1918
82	03 - 22	Lovesick Blues	Irving Kaufman	1922
83	03 - 23	Chattanooga Blues	Ida Cox	1923
84	03 - 24
85	03 - 25	Don’t You Quit Me Daddy	Sara Martin’s Jug Band	1924
86	03 - 26	Mail Man Blues	Lee Morse	1924
87	04 - 01	Just Tell My Mother	Adjt. Edward Taylor	1897
88	04 - 02	The Mountain Climber	The Graus Duo	1897
89	04 - 03	Cillerthal	Graus Mountain Choir	1897
90	04 - 04	William J. Bryan's Cross Of Gold Speech	Len Spencer	1896-97
91	04 - 05	Annie Laurie	George J. Gaskin	1898
92	04 - 06	Darling Nellie Gray	J. W. Myers	1903
93	04 - 07	Dixie	Byron G. Harlan and Frank C. Stanley	1904
94	04 - 08	Lasca	Edgar L. Davenport	1909
95	04 - 09	Una Noche de Alegria	Octaviano Yañez	1909
96	04 - 10	Banjo Song	Rev. J. A. Myers	1908
97	04 - 11	Lord Bateman	Joseph Taylor	1908
98	04 - 12	The Foggy Dew	John McCormack	1913
99	04 - 13	The Girl I Left Behind Me	Columbia Stellar Quartette	1913
100	04 - 14	Aloha 'oe	Toots Paka's Hawaiians	1913
101	04 - 15	Listen to the Mocking Bird	Joe Belmont	1914
102	04 - 16	O Mary, Don't You Weep, Don't You Mourn	Fisk University Jubilee Quartet	1915
103	04 - 17	Old Dan Tucker	Harry C. Browne	1916
104	04 - 18	The Gallows Tree	Bentley Ball	1919
105	04 - 19	Bangum and the Boar	Bentley Ball	1919
106	04 - 20	The Train I Ride	R. W. Gordon field recording (anon. Californian 1)	1920-23
107	04 - 21	Jump Jim Crow	R. W. Gordon field recording (anon. Californian 2)	1920-23
108	04 - 22
109	04 - 23
110	04 - 24	Old Granny Hare	William Ernest Bird	1925
111	04 - 25	Easter Anthem	Original Sacred Harp Choir	1922
112	04 - 26	Antioch L. M.	Original Sacred Harp Choir	1922
113	04 - 27	Whoopee Ti Yi Yo	Wilfred Glenn and Shannon Quartet	1923
114	04 - 28	I've Been Workin' on de Railroad	Shannon Quartet	1923
115	04 - 29	Barbara Allen	Royal Dadmun	1922
116	04 - 30	A Roundup Lullaby	Royal Dadmun	1923
117	04 - 31
118	05 - 01	Medley of Irish Jigs	Michael Coleman	1921
119	05 - 02	The Union Reel	Patrolman Frank Quinn	1922
120	05 - 03	Turkey in the Straw	Henry Gilliland and Eck Robertson	1922
121	05 - 04
122	05 - 05	Arkansaw Traveler	William B. Houchens	1922
123	05 - 06	The Opera Reel	Jasper Bisbee	1923
124	05 - 07	Durang Hornpipe	John Baltzell	1923
125	05 - 08	Rain Crow Bill Blues	Henry Whitter	1923
126	05 - 09	Bonaparte's Retreat	A. A. Gray	1924
127	05 - 10	Old Catville Quadrille	Col. John A. Pattee	1924
128	05 - 11
129	05 - 12	Kitty Puss	Land Norris	1924
130	05 - 13	Chicken Reel	E. F. "Poss" Acree	1924
131	05 - 14	Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss	Samantha Bumgarner	1924
132	05 - 15	Cumberland Gap	Uncle "Am" Stuart (banjo by Gene Austin)	1924
133	05 - 16	Soldier's Joy	Sid Harkreader and Uncle Dave Macon	1924
134	05 - 17	The Rocky Road to Dublin	Allen Sisson	1925
135	05 - 18	Royal Clog	Ernest Helton	1925
136	05 - 19	The Cackling Hen	J. D. Harris	1925
137	05 - 20
138	05 - 21	Callahan's Reel	Fiddlin' Powers and Family	1924
139	05 - 22	Sourwood Mountain	Whitter's Virginia Breakdowners	1924
140	05 - 23	Sally Ann	The Hill Billies	1925
141	05 - 24	Silver Bell	McMichen's Home Town Band	1925
142	05 - 25	Snow Dear	Jimmie Wilson's Catfish String Band	1925
143	06 - 01	Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray	Vaughan Quartet	1921
144	06 - 02	The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane	Fiddlin' John Carson	1923
145	06 - 03	The Old Hen Cackled and the Rooster's Going to Crow	Fiddlin' John Carson	1923
146	06 - 04	It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'	Wendell Hall	1923
147	06 - 05	The Wreck on the Southern Old 97	Henry Whitter	1923
148	06 - 06	Lonesome Road Blues	Henry Whitter	1923
149	06 - 07	Rock All Our Babies to Sleep	Riley Puckett	1924
150	06 - 08	I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground	Bascom Lamar Lunsford	1924
151	06 - 09	Cindy in the Meadows	Samantha Bumgarner and Eva Davis	1924
152	06 - 10	Life's Railway to Heaven	George Reneau (with Gene Austin)	1924
153	06 - 11
154	06 - 12	Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy	Uncle Dave Macon	1924
155	06 - 13	Old Joe Clark	Fiddlin' Powers and Family (with Carson Robison)	1924
156	06 - 14	Weeping Willow Tree	Ernest Thompson	1924
157	06 - 15	The Prisoner's Song	Vernon Dalhart	1924
158	06 - 16	The Runaway Train	Vernon Dalhart	1925
159	06 - 17
160	06 - 18	Boll Weevil Blues	Gid Tanner	1925
161	06 - 19	Anytime	Emmett Miller	1924
162	06 - 20	Little Mary Phagan	Rosa Lee Carson	1925
163	06 - 21	Butcher's Boy	Kelly Harrell	1925
164	06 - 22
165	06 - 23	Worried Blues	Frank Hutchison	1926
166	06 - 24	May I Sleep in Your Barn Tonight Mister	Ernest Stoneman	1926
167	06 - 25	The Sinking of the Titanic	The Blue Ridge Mountaineer (Ernest Stoneman)	1926