The Edge of Americana / Time Again Radio presents:
Happy 74th Birthday to American musical polymath Ry Cooder!
Tonight’s set is all songs and tunes that he has recorded, played by (in most cases) the original artists.
Songs and tunes that are interpreted on Ry Cooder (1970), Into The Purple Valley (1972), Boomer’s Story (1972), Paradise And Lunch (1974), Chicken Skin Music (1976), My Name Is Buddy (2007), and Prodigal Son (2018).
Enjoy!
JB
Blind Alfred Reed, “How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live”
from Hard Times Come Again No More: Early American Rural Songs of Hard Times and Hardships Vol. 1
Yazoo - 2006
Lead Belly, “Pigmeat”
from Where Did You Sleep Last Night: Lead Belly Legacy, Vol. 1
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 1996
Foghorn Stringband, “Rose in the Mountain / Tennessee Girls”
from Rock Island Grange
Foghorn Stringband - 2018
Blind Willie Johnson, “Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground”
from Complete Recorded Titles, Vol. 1 (1927 to 10th December 1929)
Document Records - 2011
Sis Cunningham, “How Can You Keep On Movin'”
from Broadside Ballads, Vol. 9: Sundown
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Folkways Records - 2004
Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves, “Wabash Blues”
from Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves
Free Dirt Records - 2019
The New Lost City Ramblers, “Taxes On the Farmer Feeds Us All”
from Songs from the Depression
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Folkways Records - 2004
Riley Puckett, “Railroad Boomer”
from Old Time Country Greats (1924-1940)
Vintage Masters Inc. - 2011
Snuffy Jenkins, “Careless Love”
from American Banjo: Three-Finger and Scruggs Style
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 1990
Joseph Spence, “Coming In On a Wing and a Prayer”
from Joseph Spence: The Complete Folkways Recordings, 1958
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 1992
Blind Willie McTell, “A Married Man's a Fool”
from Final Blues Recordings 1956
Vintage Masters Inc. - 2012
Pete Seeger, “Bourgeois Blues”
from Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2019
Willie Watson, “Always Lift Him Up and Never Knock Him Down”
from Folk Singer, Vol. 2
Acony Records - 2017
Scotty Stoneman & Kentucky Colonels, “Goodnight Irene”
from 1965 Live in L.A.
Sierra Briar Records - 1978
The New Ballard's Branch Bogtrotters, “Hangmans Reel”
from Bogtrotter Blues
The New Ballard's Branch Bogtrotters - 2014
Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass, “Footprints In the Snow”
Strictly Country Records - 2001
Blind Willie Johnson, “Everybody Ought to Treat a Stranger Right”
from Complete Recorded Titles, Vol. 2 (11th December 1929 to 20th April 1930)
Document Records - 2011
The Stanley Brothers, “Harbor of Love”
from The Complete Mercury Recordings
Mercury Nashville - 2003
joshbearman The Edge of Americana / Time Again Radio March 15th, 2021
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