Early Southern Guitar Sounds CD $16
Smithsonian Folkways, 2007
On 28 songs and tunes, Mike plays a variety of the guitar styles used in the rural South from about 1850 to 1930, on 25 different types of guitars. Featured are banjo-like styles, rags, blues, parlor and parlor-based styles, slide styles, and many accompaniment styles. Includes a 36-page booklet covering Southern guitar history, notes on songs and styles, and color photographs of many of the instruments used.
- Arizona
- Old Chisholm Trail
- Johnny Doyle
- Kenny Wagner's Surrender
- Fishing Blues
- Buckdancer's Choice
- I'm Crazy Over You
- Can't Get a Letter From Home
- Spanish Fandango
- Weary Lonesome Blues
- Birmingham Tickle
- Worried Blues
- White Oak Mountain
- Pearly Dew
- Shakin' the Pines In the Holler
- Joe Lee's Tune
- John Henry
- Guitar Rag
- Smoketown Strut
- Riley and Spencer
- Leaning on the Everlasting Arm
- After All Has Been Said and Done
- Big Kid's Barroom
- Black Jack David
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Mike's Music
PO Box 1592
Lexington, VA 24450