Examing the music that influenced Mike Seeger's style and recordings, as well as many musicians he helped to bring (back) to the forefront of the American conscience, at least folky America.
Doc Boggs, Libba Cotten, Clarence Ashley, Bill Monroe, Roscoe Holcomb, and many others.
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Artist / Name / Album / Comments
Bryan Sutton / Big Island Hornpipe / Almost Live / Sugar Hill The Travelin' Snakes / Walk Around My Bedside / Snake In The GrassS / Self Arthur Smith Trio / Sugar Tree Stomp / Nashville: The Early String Bands - 1 / County Fiddlin' Arthur Smith, The McGee Brothers / Milk 'Em in the Evening Blues / Milk 'Em in the Evening Blues / Folkways Dock Boggs / Down South Blues / Friends Of Old Time Music (Disc 1) / Folkways Dock Boggs / Poor Boy In Jail / Friends Of Old Time Music (Disc 3) / Folkways
Jesse Fuller / Rockin' Boogie / Friends Of Old Time Music (Disc 1) / Folkways Roscoe Holcomb / I'm A Free Little Bird / The High Lonesome Sound / Folkways Roscoe Holcomb / Born And Raised In Covington / 1954-74 An Untamed Sense of Control / Folkways
Mississippi John Hurt / Spike Driver Blues / 1926-33 Harry Smith - Anthology of American Folk Music / Folkways Uncle Dave Macon / We Are Up Against It Now / Classic Sides 1924 - 1938 / Document Uncle Dave Macon / Molly Married A Traveling Man / Classic Sides 1924 - 1938 / Document
Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers / cacklin_hen_and_rooster_too / 1001 Fiddle Tunes Vol. 1 / http://1001tunes.com Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers / devilish_mary / 1001 Fiddle Tunes Vol. 1 / http://1001tunes.com Henry Thomas / Honey, Won't You Allow Me One More Chance? / 1927-29 Ragtime Texas / Document Henry Thomas / Texas Easy Street / 1927-29 Ragtime Texas / Document Clarence "Tom" Ashley / Coo Coo Bird / Old Time Mountain Banjo / County
CLARENCE TOM ASHLEY / Dark Holler Blues / Roots of American Fiddle Music - Volume 3 / http://1001tunes.com Doc Watson / Intoxicated Rat / The Best Of Doc Watson 1964-1968 / Vanguard Libba Cotton / Going Down the Road Feeling Bad / Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Tunes / Folkways Doc Watson / Every Day Dirt / The Doc Watson Family / Folkways Bill Monroe & his Blue Grass Boys / Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong / 1946-50 Bluegrass Bonanza: Classic Bluegrass / Proper Bill Monroe & his Blue Grass Boys / Bluegrass Breakdown / 1959-66 Newport Folk Festival: The Best Of Bluegrass / Vanguard
Sara Carter and Maybelle Carter / I'm Leaving You This Lonesome Song / Classic Old-Time Music from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / Folkways Carter Family / Single Girl Married Girl / 1926-33 Harry Smith - Anthology of American Folk Music / Folkways Tommy Jarrell, Oscar Jenkins and Fred Cockerham / Roving Cowboy / Stay All Night...and Don't Go Home / County Tommy Jarrell & Kyle Creed / The Wreck of Old 97 / June Apple - Old Time Fiddling & Clawhammer Banjo / June Apple
Mississippi John Hurt / Blue Harvest Blues / 1924-38 Hard Times Come Again No More / Yazoo The Georgia Mudcats / Barefoot in the Henhouse / Barefoot in the Henhouse and Other Southern Delights / Self Angelica Grim / She's More To Be Pitied / Look For Me / Patuxent The Doerfels / We'll Meet Again Sweetheart / What I'm Looking For / Patuxent
Christabel And The Jons / Postcard / Love & Circumstances / Self Mayhem String Band / Bring It With You When You Come / Land Pirates / Self Marcus Martin / Possum up a Gum Stump / When I Get My New House Done / Southern Folklife Collection Madame Pamita / My Southern Can is Mine / Madame Pamita's Wax Works / Self