From the liner notes to White Country Blues, 1926-1938 A Lighter Shade of Blue:
“During the 1920s, it was customary for the major record companies to segregate the kinds of Southern music they recorded, most had a separate numerical series for white “hillbilly” or old-time music, another for “race” or blues music. Yet both the fans and the musicians knew this segregation was artificial at best, and that throughout the South, there was much more give-and-take in the music than some Northerners thought….[Most] never really enjoyed the fruits of their work. Many drifted into obscurity, and out of music entirely, many fell on hard times, and en ded up living in tar-paper shacks or on run down farms. Many wound up like “Talking Blues Man” Chris Bouchillon, living in retirement without even a copy of his old records, wondering occasionally if anyone remembered his music. Yet their seeds had been cast, and their music had done its work, and it had helped make millions aware of the plurality of American vernacular music – and along the way had changed the face of music itself.”
When Blood Brother Tex asked about putting together a mix of “blues and hillbilly music from the 20s and 30s”, Brother Doowad jumped at the chance. Brother Funky sat this one out, but he’ll be back with Gutbucket 13.
Disk 1
1. The Delmore Brothers – Blues Stay Away From Me
2. The Maddox Brothers & Rose – Philadelphia Lawyer
3. Lonely Eagles – Been on the Job Too Long
4. Asa Martin – Lonesome, Broke and Weary
5. Bayless Rose – Original Blues
6. Jelly Roll Morton – I Hate a Man Like You
7. Georgia Yellow Hammers – Coon From Tennessee
8. Roy Harvey and Leonard Copeland – Back in Blue Ridge
9. Memphis Jug Band – You May Leave, But This Will Bring You Back
10. John Snipes – Going Away from Home (Take Care of My Wife and Child)
11. Memphis Jug Band – Jug Band Waltz
12. Lottie Kimbrough (The Kansas City Butterball) – Rolling Log
13. Chris Bouchillon – New Talking Blues
14. David “Honeyboy” Edwards – Worried Life Blues
15. Uncle Dave Macon. – Worthy of Estimation
16. Leadbelly – When I Was A Cowboy
17. Kelly Harrell – My Name Is John Jo Hannah
18. The Nashville Washboard Band – Arkansas Traveler
19. Blind Willie McTell – Searching The Desert For The Blues
20. David Crockett – A Chicken Can Waltz the Gravy Around
21. Sweet Papa Stovepipe – All Birds look like Chicken to me
22. Lonnie Young, Ed Young & Lonnie Young, Jr. – Hen Duck
23. Henry Thomas – Bulldozer Blues
24. Woody Guthrie – Old Joe Clark
25. Oded Dad Pickard – Sally Goodin
26. Almeda Riddle – Chick-A-Li-Lee-Lo
Disk 2
1. Robert Johnson – They’re Red Hot
2. Asa Martin & his Kentucky Hillbillies – Hot Sausage Man
3. Bessie Smith – There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
4. Hattie Hudson – Doggone my Good Luck Soul
5. Billie Holiday – It’s Too Hot For Words
6. The Allen Brothers – Red Hot Rambling Dan
7. Mississippi John Hurt – Ain’t No Tellin’
8. The Callahan Brothers – I Want To Be Where You Are
9. Jimmie Rodgers – Any Old Time
10. Wilburn Bros.with Webb Pierce – Sparkling Brown Eyes
11. Spencer Moore – The Girl I Left Behind
12. G.B. Grayson & Henry Whitter – Little Maggie
13. Lonnie Carter – The Jazz Fiddler
14. Buge Cage & Willie B. Thomas – The Dirty Dozen
15. William Thomas Narmour & Shellie Walton Smith – Sweet Milk & Peaches
16. The Prairie Ramblers – Deep Elem Blues
17. Riley Puckett – A Darkey’s Wail
18. Little Hat Jones – Kentucky Blues
19. Charlie (Charley) Patton – Going To Move To Alabama
20. Barbecue Bob – Going Up The Country
21. Cleoma Breaux – C'est Si Triste Sans Lui
22. Red Hot Old Mose – Shrimp Man
23. Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell – Barrelhouse Woman [No. 2]
24. Pink Anderson & Simmee Dooley – Gonna Tip Out Tonight
25. Robert Wilkins – That's No Way To Get Along
26. Georgia Tom – Only The Blues
