The Edge Of AmericanaLots of Partying and Just a Touch of Sickness

Been to too many holiday parties recently, so here's a show of mainly partying songs, with just a few about being sick: an inevitable consequence.

Enjoy!

JB

Artist / Song / Album / Label

Muddy Waters / You Got To Take Sick And Die Some Of These Days / Muddy Waters 1941 – 1946 / Smithsonian Folkways
Clint Howard / Homesick For Heaven / The Ballad Of Finley Preston / Rounder
Bill Monroe & his Blue Grass Boys / Honky Tonk Swing / 1936-45 Bluegrass Bonanza: The Monroe Legacy / Proper
Vernon Dalhart / Yukon Steve & Alaska Ann / On The Lighter Side / Old Homestead
The Wiyos / I Can’t Dance / The Wiyos / Self

Buzz Busby / Farewell Party / A Pioneer of Traditional Bluegrass (Webco 0101, 1981) / Webco
Clark Kessinger / Dance All Night / The Legend Of Clark Kessinger / Folkways
The Wilders / Honky Tonk Habit / Throw Down / Free Dirt
Merle Haggard / Peach Pickin’ Time in Georgia / Same Train, Different Time / Capitol
The Dixie Playboys / Lollipop / WSLS – Roanoke Country Radio / Digital Library of Appalachia

Edden Hammon / Big Hoedown / Edden Hammon Collection (Disc 2) / WVU Press
Melissa Wrong & The Rights / Going Away Party / Live Tweener @ Watermelon Park – September 22, 2012 / Self
Georgia Yellow Hammers / Big Ball In Memphis / Johnson’s Old Grey Mule / British Academy of Country Music
W.E Claunch / 05-Miss Sally at the party / Great Big Yam Potatoes / Library of Congress
Dixieland Jug Blowers / Hen Party Blues / Louisville Stomp / Frog

Camp Creek Boys / Haystack Hoedown / Home Recording: Jan. 25, 1967 / None
The Good Old Boys / Barefoot Nellie / Pistol Packin’ Mama / Round
Poplin-Woods Tennessee String Band / Are You From Dixie? / Nashville, 1928 / Document
George Jones / The Honky Tonk Downstairs / Don’t Stop The Music / Ace
Fiddlin’ Bob Larkan & His Music Makers / Saturday Night Waltz / Echoes Of The Ozarks Volume Two / County

Ethel Waters / At The New Jump Steady Ball / The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 1 (1917-1927) / Pm 12176-A, 12176-A
The Two Man Gentlemen Band / Pool Party / Two At A Time / Serious Business
Sons of the Pioneers / Last Round-up / Favorite Cowboy Songs / Longhorn
Sons of the Pioneers / Farr Away Stomp / Favorite Cowboy Songs / Longhorn
Randall Hylton / Coal Town Saturday Night / Music Of Coal: Mining Songs From The Applachian Coalfields / Full Lights

Ensemble with Del McCoury / Dixie Hoedown / Bluegrass Mandolin Extravaganza (Disc 2) / Acoustic Disc
Leonard Westmoreland / After the Ball / Warren Wilson Recordings / Warren Wilson College
Buzz Busby And Leon Morris / Rambler / Honkytonk Bluegrass / Patuxent
Harry Reser / Charleston Ball / Harry Reser’s Six Jumping Jacks: 1926-1930 / Retreival

George Jones / Even The Bad Times Are Good / Mr Country & Western Music / Time Life
Dave Apollon / Grenada / Mandolins, Mandolins / Coral
Betty Lou w Hartman’s Heartbreakers / Feels Good / The Start of Rock and Roll / Classic
Ginny Jackson, Spade Cooley / Honky Tonkin’ / King Of Western Swing, Vol. 1 / Soundies
Hank Williams / Honky Tonk Blues / The Hank Williams Story / Bear Family
Bert Garvin / The Fun’s All Over / Kentucky Old Time Banjo / Rounder

Bessie Smith / At The Christmas Ball / Where Will You Be Christmas Day / Tompkins Square
Clyde Davenport / Ladies In The Ballroom / Recordings from the collection of Ray Alden – volume 2 / Field Recorders Collective
Floyd County Ramblers / Aunt Dinah’s Quilting Party / Rural String Bands Of Virginia / County
Rev. Edward W. Clayborn (The Guitar Evengelist) / The Wrong Way To Celebrate Christmas / Where Will You Be Christmas Day / Tompkins Square
Fiddlin’ Arthur Smith, The McGee Brothers / Dance All Night With a Bottle in Your Hand / Milk ‘Em in the Evening Blues / Folkways